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Ghosts of crook county : an oil fortune, a phantom child, and the fight for Indigenous land / Russell Cobb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobb, Russell, 1974- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum industry and trade--Corrupt practices--Oklahoma--History--20th century.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Racism against Indigenous peoples--Oklahoma--History--20th century.
- Racism against Indigenous peoples.
- Indigenous peoples--Crimes against--Oklahoma--History--20th century.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Oklahoma--History--Land Rush, 1889.
- Oklahoma.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations, maps, genealogical tables.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston : Beacon Press, [2024]
- Contents:
- Prologue: "It was doubtful if such a person had ever existed"
- Growing up in the territory with Minnie Atkins
- "Into the light before" : Minnie Atkins at Tullahassee and Carlisle
- Becoming a lady : Minnie lights out for the west
- "My nation is about to disappear" : enrollment begins
- Charles Page, the "Secular Saint" of modern-day Tulsa
- The making of "Daddy" Page
- Oklahoma joins the dance : the first oil boom in Indian Territory
- Emarthla of the Snake Faction
- Bartlett's quitclaim : the run on Tommy's land begins
- "All crooks at Tulsa" : Minnie Atkins and the receivership hearing
- Minnie Atkins in Seattle
- "Utterly unworthy of your confidence" : the campaign against R.C. Allen
- "There is no justice for the weak?" : resistance against allotment
- "What a fool we have been" : the Atkins sisters face off in federal court
- "Nancy shatters own chance"
- The Sam Brown interlude
- "You know how a white man is about money" : Sadie James reveals all
- "Anything to get the coin" : the aftermath of the trials, and the death of Minnie Atkins
- From blood quantum to liquid gold : Sally Atkins and the erosion of Black freedom during Oklahoma's first oil boom
- "But insists he has never died"
- Epilogue: Take me back to Tulsa.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-270) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780807012994 (electronic bk.)
- 0807012998 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40032503874
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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