A rare collection of accounts of incidents and legends throughout the state – intriguing bits of the past generally not found in conventional works of history. Used in some schools as a teaching aid. Included in the 26 chapters are descriptions of a crucial battle between Indians and Spaniards in 1759; a place where "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was composed; the wild and woolly past of a town called Navajoe; a whiskey-smuggling scheme that set a train depot on fire; a young man who left the oil fields for Hollywood; a scary light that has haunted a lonely road for years; and where once a strange but lively party took place in a moonlit cemetery.
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Jim Marion Etter is a retired, award-winning reporter for The Daily Oklahoman whose offbeat, folksy writing about his home state has earned him the reputation as "Oklahoma's master country storyteller." A writer of both fiction and nonfiction, he's the author of five books and a contributing author of four others, and has written for numerous magazines including Persimmon Hill and Western Horsemen. A native of the small Muskogee County town of Oktaha, he now lives in Oklahoma City. He's also been a newspaper and television reporter in Laredo, Texas - "El Charro Flaco" - and has served as a military journalist and translator in Latin America.
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Not what one wanting to hear ghost town tales would have hoped,
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This review is from: Ghost-Town Tales of Oklahoma: Unforgettable Stories of Nearly Forgotten Places (Paperback)
When I ordered it I had origninally thought it would be mainly about ghost towns of OK and stories about them. Unforuntately I was wrong. True this book includes a few stories on ghost towns, but for each story, the tale of the town is maybe a page or a half page while the beginning of the "story" tells mostly about the famous events or birthplaces of famous people or whatever else about every nearby town or historical landmark just telling you where the town is located.If you want to hear about famous places and landmarks of Oklahoma, that happen to be nearby the old ghost towns, this is the book for you, if you're looking for actual tales of ghost towns, you might look elsewhere.
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This is worth the money- certainly not great, but moderately entertaining. A collection of short stories which seem to be arranged in chronological order- I would rather they'd been grouped by location in the state. This book won't take long to finish, and you won't be sorry to be done.
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great book,
This review is from: Ghost-Town Tales of Oklahoma: Unforgettable Stories of Nearly Forgotten Places (Paperback)
This book seemed to be a book I normally wouldn't read but I.really enjoyed this book. It had a lot of interesting true facts & places. Same author "Jim Etter" also has a book called "Thunder in the Heartland" & that is fiction based on true facts & events. Great book too!!!
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Oklahoma is a place of images as varied as its hills that edge the Ozarks and its prairies specked with cactus-of cowboys and Indians, of moonshiners and gangsters in Model A Fords, of ragged Okies on the move to somewhere else. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
official state map, rolling prairies, hidden money Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Indian Territory, Halfway House, Paw Paw, Oklahoma Territory, Keokuk Falls, Medicine Spring, Belle Starr, Lost City, Unforgettable Stories, Red River, Civil War, Jim Cook, Oklahoma City, Strong City, New Mexico, Possum Hollow, Dan Brogan, Day County, Pretty Boy Floyd, Frank Prentice, Harry Leslie, Salt Springs, San Bernardo, Fort Gibson, Sequoyah Houston New!
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Oklahoma is a place of images as varied as its hills that edge the Ozarks and its prairies specked with cactus-of cowboys and Indians, of moonshiners and gangsters in Model A Fords, of ragged Okies on the move to somewhere else. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
official state map, rolling prairies, hidden money Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Indian Territory, Halfway House, Paw Paw, Oklahoma Territory, Keokuk Falls, Medicine Spring, Belle Starr, Lost City, Unforgettable Stories, Red River, Civil War, Jim Cook, Oklahoma City, Strong City, New Mexico, Possum Hollow, Dan Brogan, Day County, Pretty Boy Floyd, Frank Prentice, Harry Leslie, Salt Springs, San Bernardo, Fort Gibson, Sequoyah Houston New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Wild West (Headstart) by M Hill on page 36
- The Big Pasture (Gunsmoke Westerns) by Clay Fisher on page 26
- John Steinbeck (Life and Works) by Susan Williams on page 59
- Hanging Judge by Random House on page 56
- John Steinbeck (Life & Works) by A.Susan Williams on page 59
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- Thunder in the Heartland: Parables from Oklahoma by Jim Marion Etter in Front Matter
- The Bad Boys of the Cookson Hills by R. D. Morgan in Back Matter
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