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Gordon Todd Skinner claimed to be one with the universe. He also engaged in kidnapping, manipulation, and ...
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Gordon Todd Skinner claimed to be one with the universe. He also engaged in kidnapping, manipulation, and ...
Abby Wendle
In our inaugural episode of This Land Radio, we asked the question on every Oklahoman's mind: Where the heck are ...
This Land
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
Zachariah Mangialomini chose a tweed jacket for that evening’s poetry reading. he sat cross-legged atop a table, ...
Rebekah Greiman
Your friends read This Land. Your family reads This Land. Next thing you know, your pet will start reading it, ...
This Land
Our little paper has a much broader appeal than originally imagined. Pictured here: Wally, a golden from Tulsa, ...
This Land
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
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Adam and Eve preside at the 52nd Annual Rattlesnake Hunt ...
Sarah Geis
The Luhring Augustine gallery in Chelsea is, like all of the galleries around it, minimalist, white and constructed ...
Denver Nicks
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 Gallagher pores over Internet articles, calling out ideas with a thick accent to her husband James. He sits just ...
Rebekah Greiman
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine ...
Christine Schutt
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
(State Motto: Labor Conquers All Things) I learned about the battle over the lethal drugs on the radio while ...
Julia McConnell
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
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Mitch Gilliam traces the pioneering influence of Woody ...
Mitch Gilliam
Woodrow Wilson Guthrie was named in the summer of 1912 on a hope that his namesake would become President, and he did. ...
Larry Guthrie
Jimmy LaFave discovered Woody Guthrie in high school—around the time he picked up his first pair of drumsticks (which ...
This Land
Behold, in the day of your fast you seek your own pleasure and oppress all your workers. - Isaiah 58: 3 Our song ...
Thomas Conner
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
Jim Chlebda talks to us about his close friend Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, a prolific poet and writer who, with her ...
Abby Wendle
His students adored him, but few of them would ever know that their principal, William “Burma Bill” Duncan was part ...
Michael Mason
Okie Humorist Will Rogers lambasts the culture of greed on Wall Street in 1922. This speech was most likely his address ...
Elliot Rambach
The rock formations that spill out from the wooded foothills of the Sans Bois Mountains in southeastern Oklahoma were ...
Jezy J. Gray
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
The events of the last decade have caused Oklahomans to view water resources in three crucially new ways. These new ...
Miles Tolbert
Julia was standing in the yard shading her eyes with her hand, looking at the northern sky. The April sun was ...
Sanora Babb
Tulsa lawyer Phil Haney perusing a copy of This Land in front of the Phoenix Cleaners sign on Brookside 18th & ...
This Land
Lee Anne Ziegler, executive director at Tulsa Foundation for Architecture, caught reading This Land at Cafe Topeca in ...
This Land
Our Mayor Dewey doll is back on the street--and this time someone's looking over his shoulder. He'd better keep that ...
This Land
The following is a collaboration by Lee Roy Chapman and Joshua Kline. Bad men are drawn to the City of ...
This Land
Filmmaker and provocateur Michael Moore is pictured here (larger image here) with a copy of This Land at the 2011 ...
This Land
Freddie smiled to himself as he drove past the country club and turned into his Southern Hills neighborhood after ...
Laurence J. Yadon
In his book The Alphabet Versus the Goddess, Leonard Shlain theorizes that literacy has a shadow side, that it may have ...
Shaun Perkins
Susie, who was weed-eating along the sanctuary fence line, recognized Barbara Miller Byrd’s SUV when Byrd and her ...
Richard Higgs
Maybe it was a gimmick, but I’d prefer to call it an experiment in semi-urban psychogeography: Walk as far as ...
Russell Cobb
The crowd of spectators lining the edges of the course are packed just as tightly as the racers—shoulder to shoulder, ...
Natasha Ball
With the celebration, remembrance, and commentary that has come with 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act this ...
Shawna Bethell
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
Our Mayor Dewey doll has been extremely busy lately--but recently we captured him doing the kind of work Tulsa ...
This Land
This story was made possible in part by our friends at City of Guthrie. Thank you, City of Guthrie, for supporting ...
Bayard Godsave
Actor Wes Studi returns to his native Oklahoma to take us on a trip down memory lane to the Downtown Coney Island. He ...
This Land
In this episode of What The Fork, Iranian-born Jahan Abdoveis takes us to Golden Saddle, an all-you-can-eat buffet that ...
This Land
In this episode of "What the Fork?" Ryan Red Corn takes us to Sally's, Pawhuska's legendary greasy ...
This Land
In this short documentary, filmmakers Sterlin Harjo and Matt Leach accompany local Ben Collins to his favorite ...
This Land
Washington-based winemaker Charles Smith and local wine distributor Scott Large take us to Burn Co. BBQ, where they ...
This Land
Before he was recognized by Forbes as one of the world’s wealthiest hip-hop stars, before Jim Morrison and The Doors ...
James Benjamin
In 1997, when Clyde Snow agreed to investigate claims from the Tulsa Race Riot, the forensic anthropologist was at the ...
Kevin O'Connor
In reading over this gorgeous jumble of images and impressions, I can only wonder at how accurately they reflect the ...
John Wooley
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
In a quiet Tulsa neighborhood, just south of 36th and Birmingham, is a house designed and built by one of the most ...
Clint Baxter
“You don’t know what life before Al was like,” said my longtime co-worker Kevin “Okie” Okey. He’s delivered ...
Mitch Gilliam
A colorful sign reads, “MOTEL Reno.” The sky is dark with clouds in an array of white and black. Rain patters the ...
Mason Powell
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
On February 27, 2014, 18-year-old William Rush entered Judge Tom Gillert’s Tulsa County courtroom. He was in ...
Brian Ted Jones
In this documentary, filmmakers Matt Leach and Sterlin Harjo explore the rare language of the Yuchi and the attempts ...
This Land
Pictured above: Allison Goss, with her grandmother, Ouida Merrifield Food is the foundation of a family. At least ...
Allison Goss
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
Dressed only in his boxers, Wade Watts, a black civil rights activist, reclined on the sofa. He read the morning paper ...
Steve Gerkin
JD McPherson is a singer and guitarist with a retro sound. He grew up listening to punk music and studied video ...
Abby Wendle
Gilded guns and rusted relics dominate the tabletops that stretch end to end across the QuikTrip Center, covering both ...
Sarah Szabo
When we walk–whenever we really walk, in an unhurried, unhassled way–we clear our heads, we get exercise, we ...
Scott Gregory
An ode to the superstore and its people. This story was produced in partnership with The Texas Observer. ...
Abby Wendle
Imaginary Oklahoma is an ongoing project in which some of today’s most important and influential writers combine with ...
Deborah Willis
In the early 1920s, the Ku Klux Klan had been so active in Tulsa, Oklahoma - doing everything from holding parades to ...
This Land
These days, only the upper end of AARP qualifiers can remember it first hand. But there was a time, decades before the ...
John Wooley
Walla Walla--The Lost Weekenders were seated on the lawn, awaiting instruction, when their leader emerged from the ...
Mark Brown
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
A young guy wearing a cobalt blue hoodie and shiny leather jacket has just robbed a woman’s purse. Rummaging through ...
Mike Mariani
Daughter/mother Victoria Fattig and Monica Sutter were both inmates at Mabel Bassett Correction Center in McLoud when ...
Yousef Khanfar
Vicki Roberts is proprietress of Black Mesa Bed & Breakfast, a 1910 native rock ranch house on a working cattle ...
Jeremy Charles
A few years ago the notion of growing tropical fruits and farm vegetables downtown in a multi-storied solar-paneled ...
Van Eden
Locked away in a bedroom-turned-workshop is T-Town fashionista Valentin Esparza, whose designs have taken the city by ...
Michael Cooper
The journey from Maple Ridge to the farmer’s market fords a great divide, with ornate porches—framed by massive ...
Rebekah Greiman
The days may be numbered for Tulsa’s Union Public School system. In the wake of recent anti-union sentiment that is ...
Beau Adams
From Vol. 88, Iss. 1 of the Southwestern Historical Quarterly: In 1719, French explorer Jean-Baptiste Bénard de la ...
This Land
Hear it first. Subscribe to This Land Radio in iTunes. Is the octopus a genius? A shapeshifter? An entreè? ...
Abby Wendle
Rust grows like a rash inside the Oklahoma Medical Examiner Offices. It’s the crusty orange-brown fringe ...
Jennie Lloyd
One: After work one day, I lay on the couch beneath the picture window. Outside, the Siberian elms tossed their ...
Gordon Grice
My Father Meets Oscar Peterson at the London House, Chicago, 1962 There they are, standing in the soft light at the ...
Wayne Zade
First in Right A subdivision’s plumbing, a predictable grid, is of greater worth than irrigating the uncertain ...
Rose McLarney
Marks Along the river valley who hears the cry of the raptors? Will you avail yourself of the talents at your ...
Grant Matthew Jenkins
Once located at 2nd Street and Frisco Avenue, this cemetery was established in 1882 and contained the graves of some of ...
Lee Roy Chapman
In 563 BCE, on the full moon day of April, a prince was born, named Siddhartha Gautama, who would leave his kingdom ...
Holly Wall
John W. Franklin is the grandson of an African American lawyer who survived the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot. He’s been ...
Abby Wendle
Many factors have influenced settlement patterns in Tulsa, but a difficult question persists: Why is Tulsa, ...
This Land
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
If you know and love Tulsa, you're familiar with both its beauty and its rough edges. We hope you enjoy this video ...
This Land
Barry Friedman, John Wooley, and William Bernhardt--some of Tulsa's most well-known writers--are seen here perusing the ...
This Land
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
You’ve probably heard the famous quote “If you don’t like the weather in Oklahoma, just wait five minutes.” Who ...
Richard Cox
Shantelle Jennings talks about seeing her father and mother in Larry Clark's Tulsa: He’s on the cover. ...
Shantelle Jennings
Photo: House on Main Street, Tulsa. By Dennis Leech.</p class> Last night, a federal tax credit for home buyers ...
Michael Mason
Did you attend grade school in Oklahoma? If so, we could use your help. We're conducting an upcoming feature on how ...
This Land
Most viewers will mistake The Rock 'n' Roll Dreams of Duncan Christopher for a retelling of Quevedo's El buscon. That ...
Joshua Kline
The Tullahassee Creek Indian Cemetery is located in Sand Springs at the intersection of Charles Page Boulevard and ...
Lee Roy Chapman
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
Thomas Shahan is an Oklahoma photographer known for his macrophotography of arthropods, including jumping spiders. His ...
Kathleen Neeley
Matt Phipps takes us inside the making of a skate video in this episode of True Tulsa. He talks to us about how sudden ...
This Land
Street artist Jascha Tobias performs on his home-made drum kit and shares his life story during Free ...
This Land
Michael Loman is a Choctaw Elvis impersonator, Fancy Dancer, and flute player living in Midtown Tulsa. Here, he teaches ...
This Land
Anton Von Ostendorf is a trapeze artist who has toured with renowned circuses all over Europe. Now, he makes his home ...
This Land