Oklahoma History

John J Dwyer takes us on an eepic journey of the most uniquely created state in the USA.

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Breathtaking Climax

Breathtaking Climax - Then came, on May 12th, the climactic sequence to the entire, epic drama, building for a full year. Orval Viers, Oklahoma City attorney and accountant for… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/climax

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Oklahoma Governors: William J. Holloway (1929-1931)

Oklahoma Governors: William J. Holloway (1929-1931) - Arkansas-born son of a Baptist minister, William J. Holloway graduated from Ouachita Baptist College, where a friendship blossomed between him and future… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/holloway

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Oklahomas George Bailey

Oklahoma’s George Bailey - In the classic American film It’s a Wonderful Life , protagonist and newlywed George Bailey, portrayed by James Stewart, thwarts a Depression Era bank run with… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/bailey

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Mennonite Peace Manifesto

Mennonite Peace Manifesto - We, the undersigned Mennonite groups, organizations, and individuals, scattered throughout the world, Believing in the Gospel of Jesus Christ which calls men to… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/mennonite-peace

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Ten Bears Words at Medicine Lodge

Ten Bears’ Words at Medicine Lodge - Comanche Chief Ten Bears delivered these eloquent words at the 1867 Medicine Lodge, Kansas peace conference between the United States and the Plains Indian… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/medicine

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Phillips 66 The Gasoline That Won the West

Phillips 66 – The Gasoline That Won the West - An 1870s grasshopper plague of Mosaic proportions drove little Frank Phillips’ (1873-1950) Nebraska family to a farm near Conway, Iowa, where he grew to… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/phillips-won

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Oklahoma Governors: Henry S. Johnston 1927-1929

Oklahoma Governors: Henry S. Johnston 1927-1929 - Born in 1870 in an Indiana log cabin, Henry S. Johnston later started a law practice in Colorado, then trekked to settle in Perry upon the great Cherokee Outlet… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/johnston

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Harlem Globetrotter: Marquis Haynes (1926-2015)

Harlem Globetrotter: Marquis Haynes (1926-2015) - During America’s long era of segregation, Sand Springs native Marques Haynes cut one of the great personal athletic resumes in U.S. history. First, he led… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/marquis

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Vigilance Committees

Vigilance Committees - The Chickasaws and Choctaws formed Vigilance Committees in the years following the War Between the States to counter the growing theft of their property by… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/vigilance

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The Streak

The Streak - College football’s greatest Division 1 winning streak lasted from the Sooners’ 7-7 tie with Pittsburgh on October 3, 1953, to their fabled 7-0 loss to Notre… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/streak

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Comanche Code Talkers

Comanche Code Talkers - For all the tragic deeds it carried out in the service of a wicked regime, the German military of World War II remains one of the great fighting forces in… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/code-talkers

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Popularizing Western Music

Popularizing Western Music - Oklahoma historians Paul F. Lambert and Bob Blackburn wrote the following passage that appears in their book You Know We Belong to the Land . In 1925 rancher… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/popularizing

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Oklahoma

“Oklahoma” - The origin of the name “Oklahoma” can be traced to a specific time, event, and person. Following the War Between the States, as part of its punishment of the… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/oklahoma

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The Legend is Born

The Legend is Born - In OU head football coach Bud Wilkinson’s second season, 1948, the Sooners came within a three-point loss in their first game of likely winning the national… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/legend

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James Robertson: Oklahoma Governors 1919-1923

James Robertson: Oklahoma Governors 1919-1923 - The first governor hailing from the old Oklahoma Territory, this Iowa native, born in 1871, settled in Chandler following the 1891 Land Run that opened the Sac… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/gov-robert

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Oklahoma Governors 1963-1967: Henry Bellmon (1921-2009)

Oklahoma Governors 1963-1967: Henry Bellmon (1921-2009) - Billings farmer and World War II tank commander Henry Bellmon casts a giant shadow on Oklahoma history. His determined leadership of a decrepit state Republican… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/bellmon

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Unforgettable Scenes from the Tulsa Race War

Unforgettable Scenes from the Tulsa Race War - An angry black man named Anderson points a Winchester rifle barrel in Greenwood co-founder O. W. Gurley’s face and calls him a liar a few hours before the… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s The Oklahomans https://www.johnjdwyer.com/post/scenes