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Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land

Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land

Behind the vast fortunes made in the Oil Capital of the world are some forgotten crimes. This is one.

2024

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Russell Cobb

We Need to Talk about Sadie

The antihero from Cherokee Nation everyone should know about.

5d ago

We Need to Talk about Sadie

5d ago

Russell Cobb

Behind a small inheritance, hints of great crime.

How I started on a journey to Crook County, Oklahoma.

Sep 9

Behind a small inheritance, hints of great crime.

Sep 9

Russell Cobb

Stumbling toward 19 North Cincinnati

This 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, 2022

Stumbling toward 19 North Cincinnati

Feb 18, 2022

Russell Cobb

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, 2020

There’s a statue — well, there was a statue — on the south side of the Stanley Milner Edmonton…

Oct 14, 2020

Russell Cobb

Episode 1: History X podcast

It’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, 2020

Episode 1: History X podcast

Sep 25, 2020

Russell Cobb

Where in the Hell is Oklahoma?

A Polemic Against the Midwesternization of the United States.

Aug 12, 2020

Where in the Hell is Oklahoma?

Aug 12, 2020

Russell Cobb

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, 2020

On the Myth and Reality of Gilcrease, part 2.

Jul 25, 2020

Russell Cobb

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, 2020

Who Was the Real Thomas Gilcrease?

Jul 23, 2020

Russell Cobb

Churches Per Capita and Other Lies in the American Heartland

A 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, 2020

Churches Per Capita and Other Lies in the American Heartland

May 7, 2020

Russell Cobb

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, 2020

Is Oklahoma Even Weirder than “Tiger King?”

Apr 15, 2020

Russell Cobb

Russell Cobb

Book Author

Out now: The Great Oklahoma Swindle: Race, Religion, and Lies in America’s Weirdest State. https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/9781496209986/

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