Unlike poor Mrs. O'Leary's Chicago cow, there is apparently no one to blame for the great 1973 fire at the National Archives and Rec...

A man who helped make Oklahoma City was it became was Charles Colcord. His lovely residence, 421 NW 13th,was built after he 'made it...

The lovely and majestic columns on the old Phillips campus in Enid, Oklahoma will be moved according to a new plan to open a Smithsonian qua...

Many people assume that the Roswell event was the beginning of reported sightings of unexplained things in the skies. An image said to be th...

Several years ago doing research for a social history project I explored the subject of UFO's... Anyone who has delved deeply into the ...

Several advertisements for 'bungalows' appeared in early Oklahoma City newspapers. They appeared to be centered in the NE 8th and NE...

I remember sitting in seventh grade English one warm autumn day as the teacher picked up the dogeared old text, flipped a page or two and th...

CAREY PLACE (OKC) In the early 1990's accounts of a " Hatchet House" with accompanying awful murder and porch painted re...

Let me tell you about...." Tellabration" (R) - A global celebration of storytelling held each November. Each November storyteller...

In one of the world's oldest writings, The Odyssey , attributed to Homer in the 8th century BCE, there is an interesting scene of Hade...

Early native inhabitants had strong storytelling traditions as integral parts of their ancient cultures. Various immigrants since then have ...

As a notorious trial was dragging on in 1907 Oklahoma City, a small kernel of news was mentioned in passing. The death currently in the news...

Sometimes history is putting together two perspectives in order to gain true focus on the past. The larger histories of the areas of Oklahom...

MY LIFE IN LIBRARIES, PART ONE: THE EARLY YEARS by Marilyn A. Hudson Part 1 – The early years The first library of my life was a simple miss...

The Blue Front Saloon was located at the corner of Grand Avenue and Santa Fe (7 Grand Avenue) in downtown Oklahoma City. When it was establ...

Nearing 1910, there was great fear as a comet was set to pass by the planet in its 75 year journey around the sun. In the past, its passing ...

There are so many conveniences we take for granted most of the time. Things like walks. In areas where natural rock was sparse or non-existe...

In 1904 a story came out of Japan about the 'daring exploits' of a Miss Ando Yoshi. In a dangerous move , and with great personal ri...

Several legends exist about the supposed mummified remains of John Wilkes Booth residing for long years in the attic of an Enid store and st...

NOTE CORRECTION TO EMAIL: From the producers "the email address for Boggy Depot Bigfoot Conference is boggydepotbigfoot@aol.com not yah...

Conduct a search and you are sure to find entries like this: " The real "Cry Baby Bridge" is in....( Kiefer , Schulter , Ca...

"Hurry, spread the word!" October is already filling up for the'Oklahoma Ghost Teller'; but some times are still availabl...

Recently, the news in and around Oklahoma is the apparent reappearance of mountain lions in regions experts swore would not have these parti...

His birthplace was long ago torn down in the on rush of Urban Renewal, but one of America's stellar literary voices lives on in a very ...

Maps are a historians best friend. Maps reveal connections, routes, challenges, and long forgotten common knowledge. They reveal the grand d...

In 1895, the Oklahoma Congressional Association chartered a school in Kingfisher, Oklahoma on some 120 acres of land. It was the "Ki...

In the 1960's and 1970's Oklahoma institutions of higher ed swelled with international students seeking out every conceivable engine...

To Miss Noami Marshall, Ponca City, OK in 1911.