exploringoklahomahistory
exploringoklahomahistory
Exploring Oklahoma History
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Just for the fun of seeing what there is to see in the great state of Oklahoma, and to possibly learn a little something along the way. Learn more at www.exploringoklahomahistory.com Follow @blogoklahomaus
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exploringoklahomahistory · 9 years ago
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'A Territorial Christmas Carol' - HOME Video Pollard Theatre
https://youtu.be/zHkrzQGZPqo
#christmas #guthrie #oklahoma
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Movies about 1920s black life in Oklahoma recognized by National Film Registry
Movies about 1920s black life in Oklahoma recognized by National Film Registry
http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/movies-about-s-black-life-in-oklahoma-recognized-by-national/article_fe7643c1-59d1-5aa1-8519-928070fc2a56.html
#oklahoma #tulsaworld #film
http://www.tulsaworld.com/homepagelatest/movies-about-s-black-life-in-oklahoma-recognized-by-national/article_fe7643c1-59d1-5aa1-8519-928070fc2a56.html
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exploringoklahomahistory · 9 years ago
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Historical Building Collapses, Owners of 50 Years Devastated
Ardmore Historical Building Collapses, Owners of 50 Years Devastated
... A 50 year old family owned business in Ardmore was reduced to rubble this morning when a wall came crashing down. "It’s just a bad thing, that’s the old Kress building, its historical and it's a really bad thing for downtown Ardmore," JC Yeatts furniture and appliance owner John Yeatts says. ...
KTEN
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http://www.kten.com/story/34001319/historical-building-collapses-owners-of-50-years-devastated
#oklahoma #ardmore #historicalbuilding #oknews
http://www.kten.com/story/34001319/historical-building-collapses-owners-of-50-years-devastated
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exploringoklahomahistory · 9 years ago
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Route 66 Gateways in Tulsa win architectural design award - Route 66 News
Route 66 Gateways in Tulsa win architectural design award
http://www.route66news.com/2016/12/08/route-66-gateways-tulsa-win-architectural-design-award/
#route66 #tulsa #oklahoma
http://www.route66news.com/2016/12/08/route-66-gateways-tulsa-win-architectural-design-award/
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The Defeat of Black Fox: How a Small Group of Oklahomans Halted the Nuclear…
The Defeat of Black Fox: How a Small Group of Oklahomans Halted the Nuclear Juggernaut By: Terry Stewart [December 4, 2016]
... [Sierra Club OK] Editor’s note: in 1973 the Public Service Company of Oklahoma proposed building the Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant in Inola, Oklahoma. Thanks to the dedicated opposition of a handful of Oklahomans, the power plant was never built. This article tells the story from one participant’s point of view. For more about the Black Fox story and those who resisted it, see NVDatabase, OKHistory, TulsaWorld, and Newson6. ...
http://www.sierraclub.org/oklahoma/blog/2016/12/defeat-black-fox-how-small-group-oklahomans-halted-nuclear-juggernaut-terry
News On 6 - Rogers County Woman Who Fought Black Fox Plant Left Lasting Legacy [April 28, 2011]
http://www.newson6.com/story/14536815/decades-later-claremore-womans-fight-against-black-fox-plant-still-inspiring
Tulsa World - Black Fox revisited [February 15, 2002]
http://www.tulsaworld.com/archives/black-fox-revisited/article_bee3ee5e-3ccb-50b9-b09c-2ba2c68e7dc4.html
OHS - Black Fox is Dead [March 3, 2012]
http://www.okhistory.org/about/transcript.php?episodedate=2012-03-03
Global Nonviolent Action Database - Oklahomans prevent completion of Black Fox Nuclear Plant, 1973-1982
http://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/oklahomans-prevent-completion-black-fox-nuclear-plant-1973-1982
#notebook #oklahoma #oklahomahistory #okhistory #nuclearplant
http://www.sierraclub.org/oklahoma/blog/2016/12/defeat-black-fox-how-small-group-oklahomans-halted-nuclear-juggernaut-terry
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exploringoklahomahistory · 9 years ago
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Google Maps - U.S.S. Oklahoma Memorial https://goo.gl/maps/9YbWUZcTk6J2
#ussoklahoma #googlemaps #oklahoma #oklahomahistory #okhistory
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U.S.S. Oklahoma (BB-37)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oklahoma_(BB-37)
... USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy in the 1910s. The Nevada class were oil-burning ships in the United States Navy. Oklahoma was the only US warship ever named for the 46th state. ... On December 7, 1941, Oklahoma was sunk by several torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Torpedoes from torpedo bomber airplanes hit the ship's hull and the ship flipped upside down. Survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet into burning hot water or crawled across ropes that hooked the Oklahoma and the Maryland. Some people inside the ship escaped when rescuers came and drilled holes and opened hatches to take them out. When the ship sank a total of 429 crew died when she capsized in Battleship Row. In 1943 Oklahoma was righted and salvaged. However, unlike most of the other battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm while being towed from Oahu in Hawaii to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay in 1947. ...
#oklahoma #ussoklahoma #wwii #oklahomahistory #okhistory #pearlharbor #wikipedia
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exploringoklahomahistory · 9 years ago
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Home Page
The Official Website of the USS Oklahoma: http://www.ussoklahoma.com/
http://www.ussoklahoma.com/
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exploringoklahomahistory · 9 years ago
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Quanah Parker Last Comanche Chief
... Chief Quanah Parker's story written and narrated by his great grandsons. Produced to preserve history by Whistling Boulder Productions in conjunction with Friends of the Historic Motley County Jail. ...
https://youtu.be/W5F3CeIjNZU
#Comanche #QuanahParker #biography #FtSill
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exploringoklahomahistory · 9 years ago
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Trail of Tears National Historic Trail
... The forced removal of the Cherokee Nation from the SE United States reveals one of the darkest chapters in American history. Stories of hardship, endurance, love, and loss come alive as a grandfather experiences removal with his granddaughter. ...
https://youtu.be/7LSkfmCj8Jg
#trailoftears #nps #Cherokee
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exploringoklahomahistory · 9 years ago
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National Parks: America's Greatest Treasure - Jere Krakow
... Krakow served as superintendent of nine National Historic Trails, including the Oregon, Santa Fe, Pony Express, and Trail of Tears National Historic Trails. ...
https://youtu.be/fPLKK1Q1FXs
#ushistory #nps #santafetrail #trailoftears #nationalparks
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exploringoklahomahistory · 9 years ago
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Santa Fe National Historic Trail (U.S. National Park Service)
National Park Service: Santa Fe National Historic Trail
https://www.nps.gov/safe/index.htm
#notebook #oklahoma #trail #oklahomahistory #okhistory #santafetrail
https://www.nps.gov/safe/index.htm
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Official Santa Fe Trail Association
Official Santa Fe Trail Association
http://www.santafetrail.org/
#notebook #oklahoma #oklahomahistory #okhistory #trail #santafetrail
http://www.santafetrail.org/
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Nine Places Where You Can Still See Wheel Tracks from the Oregon Trail
Nine Places Where You Can Still See Wheel Tracks from the Oregon Trail
... The legendary trail has carved itself into American history—and, in some places, into the earth itself ...
Smithsonian Magazine
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/follow-relics-oregon-trail-180960589/
#ushistory #history #oregontrail
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/follow-relics-oregon-trail-180960589/
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Oklahoma Historical Society to sell assets it can't afford to maintain
Oklahoma Historical Society to sell assets it can't afford to maintain
... Its budget slashed, the Oklahoma Historical Society is selling historically significant sites it can no longer afford to maintain, including Fort Washita and Sequoyah's Cabin, to two Oklahoma Indian tribes. ...
NewsOK
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http://newsok.com/oklahoma-historical-society-to-sell-assets-it-cant-afford-to-maintain/article/5521947
#oklahoma #oknews #oklahomahistory #okhistory #museums #ohs
http://newsok.com/oklahoma-historical-society-to-sell-assets-it-cant-afford-to-maintain/article/5521947
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Oklahoma Star Trek - Russel Bates Kiowa Tribe Screenwriter - Gallery Television Series
... He's explored strange new worlds, sought out new life and new civilizations and has boldly gone where few Oklahomans have gone before and in November, you'll get to meet him on Gallery. In the late 60's Oklahoman Russell Bates met Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry at a Writer's Guild Conference. That meeting would chart the course of his writing life. Bates was asked to write for the new Star Trek animated series where he won a National Emmy Award and a Peabody Award for Best Writing in an Animated Series. The episode he wrote titled, "Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth" that garnered such accolades encompassed his heritage, placing the first Native American crew member on the Star Ship Enterprise. Join Gallery in November for our Oklahoma Trek to Anadarko to meet Russell Bates, an esteemed writer who is still moving at Mach speed. ...
https://youtu.be/MCM9-mrMrZM
#startrek #media #oklahoma #kiowa
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Trekspertise - The Serpent's Tooth
... We decided to look inside one particular episode from Star Trek's own animated series. What we found was complex and perhaps emblematic of an often-neglected chapter in Trek history. ...
https://youtu.be/O247kVPjwvs
Episode was written by Russel Bates, Kiowa Tribe Screenwriter
#startrek #media #kiowa #oklahoma
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