Download or read book Oklahoma Prairie Tales written by Kelly Poland and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2016-01-06 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bouncing on a buckboard to a cow in a hotel, from outrunning a thunderstormon horses!to chasing a runaway mule, meanwhile hiding watermelons at a church social and surviving catastrophic floods . . . these are just a few of author Kelly Polands Oklahoma Prairie Tales: Mostly True Stories My Grandmother Told Me, a rollicking page-turner of a read for children of all ages and grown-ups alike!

Download or read book Tales of the Prairie written by Victoria A. Pittman and published by . This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short stories, anecdotes, articles, clippings, and images describing a woman's life and experiences growing up and living on a farm in Southwestern Oklahoma.

Download or read book Family tales and crossing trails written by Ardron Hinton and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prairie Stories written by Jackie Askew and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prairie Tale written by Melissa Gilbert and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting tale of self-discovery from the beloved actress who earned a permanent place in the hears of millions for her role in Little House on the Prarie when she was just a child. To fans of the hugely successful television series Little House on the Prairie, Melissa Gilbert grew up in a fantasy world with a larger-than-life father, friends and family she could count on, and plenty of animals to play with. Children across the country dreamed of the Ingalls’ idyllic life—and so did Melissa. With candor and humor, the cherished actress traces her complicated journey from buck-toothed Laura "Halfpint" Ingalls to Hollywood starlet, wife, and mother. She partied with the Brat Pack, dated heartthrobs like Rob Lowe and bad boys like Billy Idol, and began a self-destructive pattern of addiction and codependence. She eventually realized that her career on television had earned her popularity, admiration, and love from everyone but herself. Through hard work, tenacity, sobriety, and the blessings of a solid marriage, Melissa has accepted her many different identities and learned to laugh, cry, and forgive in new ways. Women everywhere may have idolized her charming life on Little House on the Prairie, but Melissa’s own unexpectedly honest, imperfect, and down-to-earth story is an inspiration.

Download or read book Oklahoma Tales and Trails written by Samuel L Jantzen Jr. and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the four sections of Oklahoma Tales and Trails, thoughts, feelings, and stories about early family life in Oklahoma, stories along the way, the historic Chisholm Trail, and the Rodeo Cowboy are expressed in verse. The timeline ranges from the early Oklahoma pioneering years along the Chisholm Trail to the modern day Rodeo Cowboy seeking fame and fortune in the eight-second ride. Mixed in with those topics and timeline are short stories about family and stories of life along the way communicated to the reader in poetic verse. Enjoy the quick lighthearted read. We hope it will brnig some fond memories and smiles to your face.

Download or read book A Tour on the Prairies written by Washington Irving and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1835 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Account of an expedition in Oct. and Nov. 1832 through a part of the unorganized Indian country now the state of Oklahoma.

Download or read book Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales written by Steve Wilson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1989-05-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains stories; some true, some legendary, about caches of lost treasure.

Download or read book PRAIRIE TAILS written by Stanley W. Beesley and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2023-07-17 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PRAIRIE TAILS is a volume featuring citizens who reside, work, love, scorn, struggle, fight, mourn and question in America’s plains country. These are characters not of the West, the Southwest, or even the Midwest. They inhabit an environment boasting of flat land to the horizon, wide farms, thick intractable woods, small towns, big cities, large ideas and cussedness. Any resemblance these souls may have to real people would be purely magical.

Download or read book Prairie Fire written by Julie Courtwright and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2023-01-13 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prairie fires have always been a spectacular and dangerous part of the Great Plains. Nineteenth-century settlers sometimes lost their lives to uncontrolled blazes, and today ranchers such as those in the Flint Hills of Kansas manage the grasslands through controlled burning. Even small fires, overlooked by history, changed lives-destroyed someone's property, threatened someone's safety, or simply made someone's breath catch because of their astounding beauty. Julie Courtwright, who was born and raised in the tallgrass prairie of Butler County, Kansas, knows prairie fires well. In this first comprehensive environmental history of her subject, Courtwright vividly recounts how fire-setting it, fighting it, watching it, fearing it-has bound Plains people to each other and to the prairies themselves for centuries. She traces the history of both natural and intentional fires from Native American practices to the current use of controlled burns as an effective land management tool, along the way sharing the personal accounts of people whose lives have been touched by fire. The book ranges from Texas to the Dakotas and from the 1500s to modern times. It tells how Native Americans learned how to replicate the effects of natural lightning fires, thus maintaining the prairie ecosystem. Native peoples fired the prairie to aid in the hunt, and also as a weapon in war. White settlers learned from them that burns renewed the grasslands for grazing; but as more towns developed, settlers began to suppress fires-now viewed as a threat to their property and safety. Fire suppression had as dramatic an environmental impact as fire application. Suppression allowed the growth of water-wasting trees and caused a thick growth of old grass to build up over time, creating a dangerous environment for accidental fires. Courtwright calls on a wide range of sources: diary entries and oral histories from survivors, colorful newspaper accounts, military weather records, and artifacts of popular culture from Gene Autry stories to country song lyrics to Little House on the Prairie. Through this multiplicity of voices, she shows us how prairie fires have always been a significant part of the Great Plains experience-and how each fire that burned across the prairies over hundreds of years is part of someone's life story. By unfolding these personal narratives while looking at the bigger environmental picture, Courtwright blends poetic prose with careful scholarship to fashion a thoughtful paean to prairie fire. It will enlighten environmental and Western historians and renew a sense of wonder in the people of the Plains.

Download or read book Dreams to Dust written by Sheldon Russell and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a fateful day in 1889, the Oklahoma land rush begins, and for thousands of settlers the future is up for grabs. One of those people is Creed McReynolds, fresh from the East with a lawyer’s education and a head full of aspirations. The mixed-blood son of a Kiowa mother and a U.S. Cavalry doctor, Creed lands in Guthrie station, the designated Territorial Capital, where he must prove that he is more than the half-blood kid once driven from his own land. In recounting the precipitous rise and catastrophic fall of the jerrybuilt city of Guthrie, author Sheldon Russell immerses us in the lives of Creed and other memorable characters whose ambitions echo the taming of the frontier—and whose fates hold lessons as important today as they were more than a hundred years ago. Among the people McReynolds must contend with is Abaddon Damon. A ruthless newspaper publisher, Abaddon is quick to strike any bargain that will bring him the power he craves, and like many others, Creed McReynolds is swept into his whirlwind of greed and deception. Creed becomes the wealthiest man in the Territory—but at an unbearable cost to himself, the dreams of others, and the dignity of his mother’s people. Dreams to Dust takes readers back to the early days of Oklahoma Territory—a sometimes dangerous place filled with nefarious dealings, where violence lurks behind even casual encounters—to tell the story of frontier men and women gambling everything to find their fortune on the windswept southern plains.

Download or read book Oklahoma Prairie Plowed Under written by Camelia Berry and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-04-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you've ever wondered what the American West was really like, the lives of the six Berry Brothers in Oklahoma Indian Territory has the answers to your questions. Well over a hundred years ago these young men rode into Indian Territory to settle among the Indians. After the ravages of the Civil War they came west and established the first trading post in Indian Territory. It was amid the Five Civilized Tribes they made their homes and raised their families. Their lives tell the stories of the land runs, the lawlessness, the cattle, the Indians, the dangers, the failures, and the discovery of oil. Their lives tell the story of early Oklahoma. Their biographies, letters, and memories describe the west as it was. It was early in the year 1989 that my mother, Camelia Uzzell Berry, asked if I would type her Family History manuscript about the Berry Brothers. After consenting I was given a steamer trunk of hand-written manuscript. There were sections of manuscript that had been cut apart and then pinned together, literally with straight pins. When Mother wanted to rearrange the order, she cut the sections apart and pinned them together in the order she felt best, then rolled them up in a scroll. Some scroll sections were over twenty feet long. Keep in mind there were no computers during my mother's early era. She had joined the Berry family with the marriage to my father, in 1941. She was a New York city girl and her new relations fascinated her. Coming from a family of writers, she gathered their stories and filed them away. These were first hand experiences from the men who had lived this era of history. She collected these stories just as others collect stamps, or butterflies. When the family pressed her, for publication, she came to me and asked me to get it ready to publish. As I began typing I realized the value of the work Mother had done. I felt Oklahoma's history needed to be folded into the Berry Brother's stories. This was my part in this work. The story of the Berry Brothers in Indian Territory is a tribute to Oklahoma and the men who settled it as well as to my mother, who took the time to make a personal record of this era of history.

Download or read book Little Known Tales in Oklahoma History written by Alton Pryor and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-01-27 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oklahoma Land Rush was a madhouse scene that brought both smiles and heartache to its participants. There is also the wonderful story about Cherokee Indian Lewis Ross who drilled for water but failed. He wasn't disappointed though, as he struck oil instead. Then there's the wild and woolly No-Man's land in the Oklahoma Panhandle where outlaws could hide without fear of the law. There was no law. No history of Oklahoma would be complete without a run-down on its favorite son, the ever-humorous Will Rogers.

Download or read book Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma written by Terri M. Baker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They came in land runs and on the Trail of Tears, sometimes with families, sometimes alone. But the women who first came to Oklahoma all had trials to face—and stories to tell. In this stirring collection, the women who settled what would become Oklahoma tell their own stories in their own words. From thousands of interviews conducted by the Work Projects Administration in 1936–37 and preserved in the Indian Pioneer Papers of Oklahoma, editors Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw have selected the words of women from a wide range of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations to relate the pioneer experience as it was really lived. Elegantly written, skillfully edited, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma reflects the everyday will and courage to survive of Oklahoma’s founding mothers. It conveys the violence of a frontier culture set in a landscape of stark beauty where death was always just a heartbeat away. A vital part of the state centennial, theirs is the story of real Oklahoma, writ large—and in a distinctly female hand.

Download or read book Oklahoma Tall Tales Uncovered written by Joe M. Cummings and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Amelia Earhart's arrest to the croquet mallet that foiled Bonnie and Clyde, Joe M. Cummings reveals the hidden depths of Oklahoma's tall tales. Oklahoma has no shortage of tall tales chock full of truth, however unlikely it might seem. Puzzle over Geronimo's three skulls. Examine the beer bottle that suckered town leaders on April Fools' Day or join the mad rush of a hundred thousand person race. Accompany the governor who went to the White House and boxed the President. Untangle the hideouts and shootouts of notorious outlaws like the Dalton Gang. Retrieve the kind of lore that is buried alongside Oklahoma's legends.

Download or read book Pretty Boy Floyd s Clarinet and Other Tall Tales of Oklahoma written by Jack Shakely and published by Strider Nolan Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning author Jack Shakely presents a collection of nineteen stories and essays. Although many are set in or around Oklahoma, this collection presents a nostalgic look at America - and Americana - through the decades. From the Civil War to the Iraq War, from Creek Indians to young orphans from New York City, these tall tales, fact-based anecdotes, and real life memoirs present a time capsule of the history of the United States.

Download or read book True Tales of the Prairies and Plains written by David Dary and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of stories set on the prairies and plains of middle America that stretch from Rio Grande northward into Canada.