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Issues & Controversies in History provides extensive coverage of key issues in American and world history via pro/con arguments, primary source documents, timelines, background articles, and biographies.
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From Amelia Earhart's arrest to the croquet mallet that foiled Bonnie and Clyde, Joe M. Cummings reveals the hidden depths of Oklahoma's tall tales.
Oklahoma has no shortage of tall tales chock full of truth, however unlikely it might seem. Puzzle over Geronimo's three skulls. Examine the beer bottle that suckered town leaders on April Fools' Day or join the mad rush of a hundred thousand person race. Accompany the governor who went to the White House...
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From bouncing on a buckboard to a cow in a hotel, from outrunning a thunderstorm"On horses!"to chasing a runaway mule, meanwhile hiding watermelons at a church social and surviving catastrophic floods . . . these are just a few of author Kelly Poland's Oklahoma Prairie Tales: Mostly True Stories My Grandmother Told Me, a rollicking page-turner of a read for children of all ages and grown-ups alike!
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Oklahoma's central location makes it a natural crossroads, and the trails of yesterday became the superhighways of today. Perhaps the best example is Route 69, also known as the Jefferson Highway. The paved highway was begun in 1915, but its course was heavily traveled for centuries before that. Engineers could map no better path than the generations who cut it through the wilderness out of necessity. Author Jonita Mullins leads a journey along this...
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