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Ronald Switzer
Eastern Oklahoma's Forgotten Frontier
9781467155601
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%An in-depth look at frontier life in Eastern Oklahoma. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of new arrivals began making their way into the rugged lands of Eastern Oklahoma. European settlers and the tribes who were forcibly relocated to the territory after 1830 established new lives alongside the Native Americans indigenous to the region. Their biographies make up an often untold story of two hundred years of Oklahoma history. From the origin of towns and commercial enterprises to profiles of pioneers both prominent and obscure, Ronald R. Switzer highlights the diversity and determination of the people who grappled for success in the early days of the Oklahoma frontier.
Tanya McCoy
Haunted Sapulpa
9781467159647
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Phantoms and Local Lore
Southwest of Tulsa on Historic Route 66 sits Sapulpa, where Lower Creek Native American James Sapulpa established a trading post around 1850. With the railroad arriving in 1866, enterprise brought ill-fated characters, oil booms, bootlegging and bordellos. And like most Western towns, mystery, murder and turmoil followed. And so too did the ghosts—born of vigilante justice, racial strife, natural disasters and one of America’s deadliest train wrecks. Authors Tanya McCoy and Stacey Price hunt the paranormal in the historic haunts and catastrophic calamities throughout Sapulpa’s history.
Angela Y. Walton-Raji
The Choctaw Freedmen of Skullyville
9781467170024
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%From settlement to sediment
Unlike the freedman communities in Spiro, Ft. Coffee and Poteau, the town of Skullyville faded into a forgotten ghost town. Dr. G. E. Hartshorne’s 1950 “Skullyville and Its People in 1889” chronicled the inhabitants’ lifestyle and culture. Yet he excluded many that arrived in the 1830s, having survived the long and arduous journey of the Trail of Tears. Enslaved people of African descent, arriving alongside their Choctaw masters, were seldom mentioned in contemporaneous accounts. They labored for decades without pay, or the comforts of freedom. Their tribal oppressors joined the Confederates, vowing to maintain their slaveholding lifestyle. Conversely, some from Skullyville resisted by joining the Union Army. Many lived to see freedom, and established livelihoods after abolition. In April of 1866, Choctaw leaders joined the Chickasaw at Fort Smith to sign a peace treaty that abolished slavery and promised citizenship and suffrage to those once enslaved by their nations. Freedman descendent Angela Walton-Raji resurrects the lost voices of Skullyville and champions a legacy that outlasted the town itself.
