Behind a small inheritance, hints of great crime.How I started on a journey to Crook County, Oklahoma.Sep 9Sep 9
Stumbling toward 19 North CincinnatiThis is a story about an address. The address is 19 North Cincinnati Avenue in Tulsa, Oklahoma. If you look up that address on Google Maps…Feb 18, 2022Feb 18, 2022
There’s a statue — well, there was a statue — on the south side of the Stanley Milner Edmonton…Lots of glass and steel. From one angle, I think it looks like one of those huge World War I tanks, the ones with treads that cover the…Oct 14, 2020Oct 14, 2020
Episode 1: History X podcastIt’s a hot day in 1916 near the capital of Wisconsin. The editor and publisher of the Wisconsin State Journal, Richard Lloyd Jones, is…Sep 25, 2020Sep 25, 2020
Where in the Hell is Oklahoma?A Polemic Against the Midwesternization of the United States.Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020
On the Myth and Reality of Gilcrease, part 2.Well, of course, my research being a chronicle of the real Oklahoma, not the petro-Christian, white-washed mythology of Oklahoma, I opened…Jul 25, 2020Jul 25, 2020
Who Was the Real Thomas Gilcrease?Every school kid in Tulsa will recall trips to the Gilcrease Museum. It’s a lovely place right on the border between the Osage Nation and…Jul 23, 2020Jul 23, 2020
Churches Per Capita and Other Lies in the American HeartlandA story made the rounds when I was in high school that Tulsa, Oklahoma, had displaced Peoria, Illinois, as the test-marketing capital of…May 7, 2020May 7, 2020
Is Oklahoma Even Weirder than “Tiger King?”I was actually kind of bored by “Tiger King.” Not because I’m an intellectual snob, but because it seemed so, well, Oklahoman. “Let’s go…Apr 15, 2020Apr 15, 2020