Volume 17 , Issue 29

NW Okie's Journey

Sometimes a simple little weekend garage sale in southwest Colorado (Durango) can surprise you with a unique first edition book of Oklahoma. My better half found the following book find for twenty-five cents - "Oklahombres: Particularly the Wilder Ones," by Evett Dumas Nix, written in 1929.

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! NW Okie found this strange article in the 24 August 1915, Tuesday, The Guthrie Daily Leader, front page with the headlines: "Takes In Stranger As Her Husband." It concerns an Englishwoman being fooled by remarrying smooth imposter near London, in Manchester, England.

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One Hundred Years Ago, Tuesday, 24 Aug. 1915

One hundred years ago today, 24 August 1915, Tuesday, The Guthrie Daily Leader, front page reported in second column: "Another Oklahoma Bank Is Looted." As reported in 1915, daylight robbers entered Bernice bank and took $1,500 and escaped.

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Evett Dumas Nix (1861-1946)

Even Dumas Nix was born September 19, 1861, in Calloway county, Kentucky, a turbulent border state during the Civil War. He died on February 4, 1946, in Riverside county, California, and burial in the Oak Grove Cemetery, Paducah, McCracken County, Kentucky; Plot: Addition Old, Section 48, Lot 11, GPS (lat/lon): 37.08589, -88.62045. His parents were: Simpson Socrates Nix (1841-1925), a confederate army officer; Rebecca Elizabeth Holland (1845-1939). His siblings were: Evett Dumas Nix (1861 - 1946), William Myers Nix (1863 - 1947), Leona Jane Nix Jones (1865 - 1951), Nellie Nix Ramsey (1870 - 1949), Eulalia Nix Graham (1873 - 1952).

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Chronology of Oklahoma

The chronology of Oklahoma comes from E. D. Nix's book, page 279 -280, "Oklahombres," that he wrote in 1929. Did you know that on 1 March 1845, the Western panhandle was acquired by the Untied States with Annexation of Texas into the Union, and on 9 September 1850, Texas ceded her claim to the Panhandle?

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(1937) Oklahombres Are Featured

There was a front page article concerning E. D. Nix's book, "Oklahombres" in The Paris News, dated 7 September 1937, located in Paris, Texas. At the officer's booth at fair featured desperado articles. W. A. (Bud) Walters was city marshal back then.

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Saw-off Games Will Start (4 September 1906, Tuesday)

According to the Houston Daily Post, Tuesday Morning, 4 September 1906, page 3, we found some interesting baseball trivia about the Southwest Baseball league that this NW Okie's grandpa (Bill McGill) played in during 1906 with the Austin Senators as a pitcher, before being sold to the St. Louis Browns in 1907 for $500. But St. Louis Browns baseball is another story for later issues.

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