The Imaginary Oklahoma Podcast
What do you think about when you think about Oklahoma? Imaginary Oklahoma is a new podcast from This Land Press, ...
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Zeppelin Tours Tulsa
Taken from the top of the Mayo of hotel, this 1929 photo depicts a 600-foot dirigible, the City of Los Angeles, as it ...
Steve Gerkin
Zach and Jennifer Mangialomini
Zachariah Mangialomini chose a tweed jacket for that evening’s poetry reading. he sat cross-legged atop a table, ...
Rebekah Greiman
Your Grandmother Reads This Land
Your friends read This Land. Your family reads This Land. Next thing you know, your pet will start reading it, ...
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Your Dog Reads This Land
Our little paper has a much broader appeal than originally imagined. Pictured here: Wally, a golden from Tulsa, ...
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Youngwolfe Accused
Phyllis Jean Warren was missing for three weeks when she was found strangled in a brush pile 300 yards from her home. ...
Hunter Howe Cates
You Will Eat Dust
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Adam and Eve preside at the 52nd Annual Rattlesnake Hunt ...
Sarah Geis
You Can Kiss: Larry Clark Debuts “Tulsa: 1968”
The Luhring Augustine gallery in Chelsea is, like all of the galleries around it, minimalist, white and constructed ...
Denver Nicks
You Are Going to Be a Good Man
The moon has been off my left shoulder for thirty-seven years and I’ve never known a blue this bad, this purple. Lots ...
George McCormick
Yiren & James Gallagher
Yiren Gallagher pores over Internet articles, calling out ideas with a thick accent to her husband James. He sits just ...
Rebekah Greiman
Yellow Weather
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Christine Schutt
Working Class Hero
Reed picked change off the floorboard of his Buick parked outside the Blue Note to pay the cover for the Oi! show. It ...
Angela Morris
Work: A Ghazal for Oklahoma
(State Motto: Labor Conquers All Things) I learned about the battle over the lethal drugs on the radio while ...
Julia McConnell
Woody’s Jesus
Now as I look around, it’s mighty plain to me This world is such a great and a funny place to be The gamblin’ ...
Faith Phillips
Woody is a Punk Rocker
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Mitch Gilliam traces the pioneering influence of Woody ...
Mitch Gilliam
Woody Guthrie’s Social Gospel Roots
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was named in the summer of 1912 on a hope that his namesake would become President, and he did. ...
Larry Guthrie
Woody Guthrie’s Disciples
Jimmy LaFave discovered Woody Guthrie in high school—around the time he picked up his first pair of drumsticks (which ...
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Woody Guthrie & Unions Amen!
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure and oppress all your workers. - Isaiah 58: 3 Our song ...
Thomas Conner
Wind Cannot Dry, Water Cannot Wet
Today is May 1. However, this day will have come and gone by the time you read this. I intentionally chose this day ...
Egunwale F. Amusan
Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel
Jim Chlebda talks to us about his close friend Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, a prolific poet and writer who, with her ...
Abby Wendle
William Z. Duncan, Tough Veteran, Kind Principal
His students adored him, but few of them would ever know that their principal, William “Burma Bill” Duncan was part ...
Michael Mason
Will Rogers Talks to the Bankers
Okie Humorist Will Rogers lambasts the culture of greed on Wall Street in 1922. This speech was most likely his address ...
Elliot Rambach
Wild Life
The rock formations that spill out from the wooded foothills of the Sans Bois Mountains in southeastern Oklahoma were ...
Jezy J. Gray
Wilber Glasby
Wilber Glasby knows some folks think he’s a hoarder, but he sees cash value in his eight-acre junk-strewn kingdom in ...
Sheilah Bright
Why We Won’t Stop Fighting About Water
The events of the last decade have caused Oklahomans to view water resources in three crucially new ways. These new ...
Miles Tolbert
Whose Names are Unknown
Julia was standing in the yard shading her eyes with her hand, looking at the northern sky. The April sun was ...
Sanora Babb
Who’s Reading This Land? Phil Haney!
Tulsa lawyer Phil Haney perusing a copy of This Land in front of the Phoenix Cleaners sign on Brookside 18th & ...
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Who’s Reading This Land? Lee Anne Ziegler!
Lee Anne Ziegler, executive director at Tulsa Foundation for Architecture, caught reading This Land at Cafe Topeca in ...
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Who’s Keeping an Eye on Dewey?
Our Mayor Dewey doll is back on the street--and this time someone's looking over his shoulder. He'd better keep that ...
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Who’s Afraid of Elohim City?
The following is a collaboration by Lee Roy Chapman and Joshua Kline. Bad men are drawn to the City of ...
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Who Reads This Land? Michael Moore!
Filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore is pictured here (larger image here) with a copy of This Land at the 2011 ...
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Where’s the Money?
Freddie smiled to himself as he drove past the country club and turned into his Southern Hills neighborhood after ...
Laurence J. Yadon
Where the Goddesses Go
In his book The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain theorizes that literacy has a shadow side, that it may have ...
Shaun Perkins
Where the Elephants Roam
Susie, who was weed-eating along the sanctuary fence line, recognized Barbara Miller Byrd’s SUV when Byrd and her ...
Richard Higgs
Where the Buffalo Drift
Maybe it was a gimmick, but I’d prefer to call it an experiment in semi-urban psychogeography: Walk as far as ...
Russell Cobb
When the Going Gets Tough
The crowd of spectators lining the edges of the course are packed just as tightly as the racers—shoulder to shoulder, ...
Natasha Ball
When Kansas Was Ahead of its Time
With the celebration, remembrance, and commentary that has come with 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act this ...
Shawna Bethell
When I was a Kid…
I tortured horny toads when I was a kid I don't feel good about that but I did – I surrounded em with lighter ...
Doug Claybourne
What’s Dewey Doing? Salting Tulsa!
Our Mayor Dewey doll has been extremely busy lately--but recently we captured him doing the kind of work Tulsa ...
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What the Thunder Said
This story was made possible in part by our friends at City of Guthrie. Thank you, City of Guthrie, for supporting ...
Bayard Godsave
What the Fork: Wes Studi
Actor Wes Studi returns to his native Oklahoma to take us on a trip down memory lane to the Downtown Coney Island. He ...
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What the Fork: The Golden Saddle
In this episode of What The Fork, Iranian-born Jahan Abdoveis takes us to Golden Saddle, an all-you-can-eat buffet that ...
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What the Fork: Sally’s
In this episode of "What the Fork?" Ryan Red Corn takes us to Sally's, Pawhuska's legendary greasy ...
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What the Fork: El Rio Verde
In this short documentary, filmmakers Sterlin Harjo and Matt Leach accompany local Ben Collins to his favorite ...
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What the Fork: Charles Smith at Burn Co. BBQ
Washington-based winemaker Charles Smith and local wine distributor Scott Large take us to Burn Co. BBQ, where they ...
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What Rhymes with Hideous Car Wreck?
Before he was recognized by Forbes as one of the world’s wealthiest hip-hop stars, before Jim Morrison and The Doors ...
James Benjamin
What Lies Beneath
In 1997, when Clyde Snow agreed to investigate claims from the Tulsa Race Riot, the forensic anthropologist was at the ...
Kevin O'Connor
What Happened, Man?
In reading over this gorgeous jumble of images and impressions, I can only wonder at how accurately they reflect the ...
John Wooley
Westward Whoa: Gay Cowpokes Saddle Up to Teach an Old Sport New Tricks
I’m sitting in the stands at the Sooner State Stampede amidst the smell of grain-fed cow manure and the clink-clank ...
Sheilah Bright
Westhope
In a quiet Tulsa neighborhood, just south of 36th and Birmingham, is a house designed and built by one of the most ...
Clint Baxter
Weird Al-Chemy
“You don’t know what life before Al was like,” said my longtime co-worker Kevin “Okie” Okey. He’s delivered ...
Mitch Gilliam
Weather You Care
A colorful sign reads, “MOTEL Reno.” The sky is dark with clouds in an array of white and black. Rain patters the ...
Mason Powell
Wearing the Wrong Colors
He got started quick. He found me out, honed in, and covered me at the bar. The clash was long awaited. I went ...
Drew Tully
We Extend our Condolences
On February 27, 2014, 18-year-old William Rush entered Judge Tom Gillert’s Tulsa County courtroom. He was in ...
Brian Ted Jones
We Are Still Here
In this documentary, filmmakers Matt Leach and Sterlin Harjo explore the rare language of the Yuchi and the attempts ...
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We All Have to Eat
Pictured above: Allison Goss, with her grandmother, Ouida Merrifield</p class> Food is the foundation of a ...
Allison Goss
Way the Crow Flies
Mr. Crow there, he hangs around this time near every day; waiting for something to die. Once, I saw some crow feasting ...
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Watts and Clary
Dressed only in his boxers, Wade Watts, a black civil rights activist, reclined on the sofa. He read the morning paper ...
Steve Gerkin
Warm and Fuzzy, with Some Grit
JD McPherson is a singer and guitarist with a retro sound. He grew up listening to punk music and studied video ...
Abby Wendle
Wanenmacher Arms Show
Gilded guns and rusted relics dominate the tabletops that stretch end to end across the QuikTrip Center, covering both ...
Sarah Szabo
Walking the Walk
When we walk–whenever we really walk, in an unhurried, unhassled way–we clear our heads, we get exercise, we ...
Scott Gregory
Wal★Mart, I Can’t Quit You
An ode to the superstore and its people. This story was produced in partnership with The Texas Observer. ...
Abby Wendle
Wailing Wall
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine with ...
Deborah Willis
W.T. Brady Court Transcript
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had been so active in Tulsa, Oklahoma - doing everything from holding parades to ...
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Vitriol Killed the Radio Star
These days, only the upper end of AARP qualifiers can remember it first hand. But there was a time, decades before the ...
John Wooley
Vintage Smith
Walla Walla--The Lost Weekenders were seated on the lawn, awaiting instruction, when their leader emerged from the ...
Mark Brown
Vigil
The light from our candles makes coronas in the mist as a breeze threatens to blow them out. He bought them at the ...
Matt Hollrah
Video Killed the Pulpit Star
A young guy wearing a cobalt blue hoodie and shiny leather jacket has just robbed a woman’s purse. Rummaging through ...
Mike Mariani
Victoria Fattig & Monica Sutter
Daughter/mother Victoria Fattig and Monica Sutter were both inmates at Mabel Bassett Correction Center in McLoud when ...
Yousef Khanfar
Vicki Roberts
Vicki Roberts is proprietress of Black Mesa Bed & Breakfast, a 1910 native rock ranch house on a working cattle ...
Jeremy Charles
Vertical Tulsa
A few years ago the notion of growing tropical fruits and farm vegetables downtown in a multi-storied solar-paneled ...
Van Eden
Valentin Esparza
Locked away in a bedroom-turned-workshop is T-Town fashionista Valentin Esparza, whose designs have taken the city by ...
Michael Cooper
Urban Chicken
The journey from Maple Ridge to the farmer’s market fords a great divide, with ornate porches—framed by massive ...
Rebekah Greiman
Union Busting
The days may be numbered for Tulsa’s Union Public School system. In the wake of recent anti-union sentiment that is ...
Beau Adams
Unicorns in Oklahoma
From Vol. 88, Iss. 1 of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly: In 1719, French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la ...
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Under the Sea
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Is the octopus a genius? A shapeshifter? An entreè? ...
Abby Wendle
Under Closer Examination
Rust grows like a rash inside the Oklahoma Medical Examiner Offices. It’s the crusty orange-brown fringe ...
Jennie Lloyd
Two Ways of Looking at a Turkey Vulture
One: After work one day, I lay on the couch beneath the picture window. Outside, the Siberian elms tossed their ...
Gordon Grice
Two Prose Poems by Wayne Zade
My Father Meets Oscar Peterson at the London House, Chicago, 1962 There they are, standing in the soft light at the ...
Wayne Zade
Two Poems by Rose McLarney
First in Right A subdivision’s plumbing, a predictable grid, is of greater worth than irrigating the uncertain ...
Rose McLarney
Two Poems by Grant Matthew Jenkins
Marks Along the river valley who hears the cry of the raptors? Will you avail yourself of the talents at your ...
Grant Matthew Jenkins
Tulsey Town’s Oldest Cemetery?
Once located at 2nd Street and Frisco Avenue, this cemetery was established in 1882 and contained the graves of some of ...
Lee Roy Chapman
Tulsa’s Temple of the Three Jewels
In 563 BCE, on the full moon day of April, a prince was born, named Siddhartha Gautama, who would leave his kingdom ...
Holly Wall
Tulsa’s Slow Integration
John W. Franklin is the grandson of an African American lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. He’s been ...
Abby Wendle
Tulsa’s Segregation Zoning
Many factors have influenced settlement patterns in Tulsa, but a difficult question persists: Why is Tulsa, ...
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Tulsa’s Forgotten Creek Heritage
Excerpted from The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State by Russel Cobb by ...
Russell Cobb
Tulsa’s First Klan Burial
On the front page of the Tulsa World's Dec. 22, 1921, issue, a headline ran with the title "Robed Klansman Honor Dead ...
Lee Roy Chapman
Tulsa: Portraits of an Oil Town
If you know and love Tulsa, you're familiar with both its beauty and its rough edges. We hope you enjoy this video ...
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Tulsa Writers Reading This Land
Barry Friedman, John Wooley, and William Bernhardt--some of Tulsa's most well-known writers--are seen here perusing the ...
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Tulsa TV Memories
In the early days of the World Wide Web, I fell in love with a couple of websites. One was Ash Wakeman's humor site, ...
Mike Ransom
Tulsa Road Construction Reaches Critical Mass
You’ve probably heard the famous quote “If you don’t like the weather in Oklahoma, just wait five minutes.” Who ...
Richard Cox
Tulsa Revealed
Shantelle Jennings talks about seeing her father and mother in Larry Clark's Tulsa: He’s on the cover. ...
Shantelle Jennings
Tulsa Real Estate Not So Real
Photo: House on Main Street, Tulsa. By Dennis Leech.</p class> Last night, a federal tax credit for home buyers ...
Michael Mason
Tulsa Race Riot Survey
Did you attend grade school in Oklahoma? If so, we could use your help. We're conducting an upcoming feature on how ...
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Tulsa Politics as Karaoke Competition
Most viewers will mistake The Rock 'n' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher for a retelling of Quevedo's El buscon. That ...
Joshua Kline
Tullahassee Creek Indian Cemetery
The Tullahassee Creek Indian Cemetery is located in Sand Springs at the intersection of Charles Page Boulevard and ...
Lee Roy Chapman
Trust Me
I used to think the funniest thing I’d ever heard Donald Trump say was when, one day in his office, he handed me a ...
Mark Singer
True Tulsa: Thomas Shahan
Thomas Shahan is an Oklahoma photographer known for his macrophotography of arthropods, including jumping spiders. His ...
Kathleen Neeley
True Tulsa: Matt Phipps
Matt Phipps takes us inside the making of a skate video in this episode of True Tulsa. He talks to us about how sudden ...
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True Tulsa: Jascha Tobias
Street artist Jascha Tobias performs on his home-made drum kit and shares his life story during Free ...
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True Tulsa: Indian Elvis
Michael Loman is a Choctaw Elvis impersonator, Fancy Dancer, and flute player living in Midtown Tulsa. Here, he teaches ...
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