Main street Oklahoma : stories of twentieth-century America / edited by Linda W. Reese and Patricia Loughlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reese, Linda Williams, 1946-2024.

Loughlin, Patricia, 1971-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oklahoma--History--20th century.

Oklahoma.

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 276 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2013]

Summary:

Oklahoma historian Angie Debo once observed that all the forces of United States history have come to bear in the development of the Sooner State. This collection of essays provides a series of snapshots reflecting both the singularity of the Oklahoma experience and the state's connections to America's broader history. Spanning the Civil War era and the present, this book develops historic themes as varied as the causes of Indian land dispossession, the Statehood Day wedding ceremony, the oil industry's environmental impact, the Tulsa Race Riot, labor relations during the New Deal, the failure of the Equal Rights Amendment, the state's unique Native artistic traditions, and its musical landscape. Oklahomans have always represented multiple races and cultures, lived in big cities or small towns or on farms, and promoted prosperity and cultural achievement while battling poverty and ignorance. The American Main Street has been the site not only of the best principles of community spirit and traditional values but also of shocking cases of prejudice and violence. Rather than shrinking from difficult subjects, Main Street Oklahoma describes the state's abundant human, natural, and cultural resources, paying tribute to the true grit of Oklahomans, but also exploring some of the more troubling moments in Oklahoma's past. The editors and contributors provide engaging perspectives on the state's rich and diverse history. Book jacket.

Contents:

"For our own safety and welfare": what the Civil War meant in Indian Territory / Bradley R. Clampitt

The mock wedding of Indian and Oklahoma Territories / Malia K. Bennett

"The land we belong to is grand!" : environment and history in twentieth-century Oklahoma / Sterling D. Evans

Oil and natural gas: putting Oklahoma on the map / Dan T. Boyd

Petroleum, planning, and tribal property: oil field development on the Osage Reservation, 1896-1950 / Houston Mount

Butchers against businessmen: the 1921 Packinghouse Strike and the Open Shop Movement in Oklahoma City / Nigel A. Sellars

"Spirited away": race, gender, and murder in Oklahoma in the 1920s / Christienne M. McPherson

Native American art in Oklahoma: an interpretation / Alvin O. Turner

Let us help you help yourselves: New Deal economic recovery programs and the Five Tribes in rural Oklahoma / James Hochtritt

The war on poverty in Little Dixie, 1965-74 / Jennifer J. Collins

Conservative Oklahoma women united: the crusade to defeat the ERA / Jana Vogt Catignani / On the Illinois: the making of modern music and culture in the Oklahoma Ozark foothills / J. Justin Castro.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780806144016

0806144017

OCLC:

833146566