Henderson, Caroline A. (Caroline Agnes)
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 HENNelson, Vaunda Micheaux.
Summary: Learn about Bass Reeves and how he became a Deputy U.S. Marshall.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 REEVESReeder, Lydia
Summary: "At the height of the Great Depression, Sam Babb, the charismatic basketball coach of tiny Oklahoma Presbyterian College, began dreaming. Like so many others, he wanted a reason to have hope. Traveling from farm to farm, he recruited talented, hardworking young women and offered them a chance at a better life: a free college education if they would come play for his basketball team, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 796.323 REEErvin, Kristine S.
Summary: "Kristine S. Ervin was just eight years old when her mother, Kathy Sue Engle, was abducted from an Oklahoma mall parking lot and violently murdered in an oil field. First, there was grief. Then the desire to know: what happened to her, what she felt in her last terrible moments, and all she was before these acts of violence defined her life. In her mother's absence, Ervin tries to reconstruct a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2024
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Summary: "Before May 31, 1921, the Greenwood District of Tulsa, Oklahoma, was a thriving neighborhood of 10,000 Black residents. There, Black families found success and community. They ran their own businesses, including barbershops, clothing stores, jewelers, restaurants, movie theaters, and more. There also were Black doctors, dentists, and lawyers to serve the neighborhood. Then, in one weekend, all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023
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Summary: "The stranger-than-fiction cold case from rural Oklahoma that has stumped authorities for two decades, concerning the disappearance of two teenage girls and the much larger mystery of murder, police cover-up, and an unimaginable truth... On December 30, 1999, in rural Oklahoma, sixteen-year-old Ashley Freeman and her best friend, Lauria Bible, were having a sleepover. The next morning, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364.152 MILYoung, R. J.
Summary: "With journalistic skill, heart, and hope, Requiem for the Massacre reckons with the racial tension in Tulsa, Oklahoma one hundred years after the most infamous act of racial violence in American history"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 YOUNG, R.J. YOUChuculate, Eddie D.
Summary: "Award-winning author Eddie Chuculate recounts his experience growing up in rural Oklahoma, from boyhood to young manhood, in an evocative and vivid voice. "Granny was full-blooded Creek, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs insisted she was thirteen-sixteenths. She showed her card to me. I'd sit at the kitchen table and stare at her when she was eating, wondering how you could be...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Focus 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 CHULuckerson, Victor
Summary: "When Ed Goodwin moved with his parents to Greenwood, Tulsa, his family joined a growing community on the cusp of becoming the center of Black life in the West. But, just a few years later, on May 31, 1921, the teenaged Ed hid in a bathtub as a white mob descended on his neighborhood. They laid waste to 35 blocks and murdering as many as 300 people. The Tulsa Race Massacre was one of the worst...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 LUCBuckley, Patricia Morris
Summary: "The story of how Wilma Pearl Mankiller challenged gender norms introduced by settlers and become the first woman Cherokee Chief"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Children's Books 2023
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Summary: "The definitive, newsbreaking account of the ongoing investigation into the Tulsa race massacre In the late spring of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted into the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, mobs of white men and women looted and burned to the ground a prosperous African American community, known today as Black Wall Street. More...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.8 ELLToobin, Jeffrey
Summary: "Timothy McVeigh wanted to start a movement. After the Oklahoma City bombing, the Gulf War veteran expressed no regrets. Jeffrey Toobin details how McVeigh's principles and tactics have flourished in the decades since his death in 2001, reaching an apotheosis on January 6 when hundreds of rioters stormed the Capitol. Based on nearly a million previously unreleased tapes, photographs, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.6 TOOGrisham, John.
Summary: In the town of Ada, Oklahoma, Ron Williamson was going to be the next Mickey Mantle. But on his way to the big leagues, Ron stumbled, his dream broken by drinking, drugs, and women. Then on a winter night in 1982, not far from Ron's home, a young cocktail waitress named Debra Sue Carter was savagely murdered. The investigation led nowhere. Until, on the flimsiest evidence, it led to Ron...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2006
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Summary: "This essential book introduces young readers to the Reign of Terror against the Osage people--one of history's most ruthless and shocking crimes"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Books for Young Readers 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 976.6004 GRAAnderson, Sam
Summary: "Award-winning journalist Sam Anderson's long-awaited debut is a brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City--a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny. Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous "Land Run" in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2018
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Summary: "In this relatable, charming book, Ree unveils real goings-on in the Drummond house and around the ranch. In stories brimming with the lively wit and humor found in her cookbooks and her bestselling love story, The Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, Ree pulls back the curtain and shares her experiences with childbirth, wildlife, isolation, teenagers, in-laws, and a twenty-five-year...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 DRUMMOND, REE DRUIrving, Washington
Summary: From the Publisher: America's first internationally acclaimed author, Washington Irving, was also one of the first to write about its then far-western frontier. After seventeen years in Europe, the famous author of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" returned to America and undertook an extensive three-month journey through present-day Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Describing scenery and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978.02 IRVThorne, Tanis C.
Summary: When the Cushing Oil Field was discovered in Oklahoma in 1911, Jackson Barnett, an illiterate Creek Indian, began receiving large royalties. When he was declared incompetent, and later eloped and moved to Los Angeles, it led to years of court cases and congressional investigations into mismanagement by the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 970.1 BARWallis, Michael
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 976.624 WALDrummond, Ree
Summary: Welcome to Rees new frontier! Much has happened on Drummond Ranch over the last couple of years: The kids are growing up, another left for college, Rees business has expanded, and her cooking has evolved. While she still cherishes her trademark family-friendly style of food, Rees been cooking up some incredible new dishes that reflect the flavors, colors, and texture shes craving these days.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5 DRUNichols, Maggie
Summary: "Maggie Nichols' official memoir is an inspirational tell-all about the abuse she suffered under the USA national gymnastic team and how she managed to redefine herself in the face of adversity. In 2015, Maggie risked everything when she revealed to her coach how USAG doctor Larry Nassar had been sexually abusing the athletes under his care. What ensued was an investigation that would capture...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2024
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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA 921 NICRappaport, Doreen
Summary: "A picturebook biography of Wilma Mankiller, the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney, Hyperion 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MANSorell, Traci
Summary: The descendant of Cherokee ancestors who had been forced to walk the Trail of Tears, Wilma Mankiller experienced her own forced removal from the land she grew up on as a child. As she got older and learned more about the injustices her people had faced, she dedicated her life to instilling pride in Native heritage and reclaiming Native rights. She went on to become the first woman Principal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 MANBrammer, John Paul
Summary: The popular LGBTQ advice columnist and writer presents a memoir-in-essays chronicling his journey growing up as a queer, mixed-race kid in America's heartland to becoming the "Chicano Carrie Bradshaw" of his generation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2021