Volume 17 , Issue 37

NW Okie's Journey

As I was rummaging through the old newspaper archives online, I found the following news article in The Lawton Constitution, out of Lawton, Oklahoma, dated 28 May 1963, Tuesday, on the front page with headlines that read: "Democrat Lashes Bellmon Refusal of Drought Help," "Gene McGill Tabs Action As Brutality," written by Harry Culver.

It sounds as though in 1963 Republicans were denying farmers, ranchers in particular areas of the states disaster assistance for the drought of 1963 in the western panhandle counties of Oklahoma.

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Walking With Sadie

Woof! Woof! Want to know more about the "Flying Farmers" of the past? The image on the left is a picture of Gene McGill, his wife, Vada, and their daughter, Dorthy (about two years of age, 1945).

We take you back of 1 August 1946, Stillwater, Oklahoma, and the Miami Daily News-Record, news article with page 3 headlines that read: "Planes Bearing Delegates To Stillwater Farm Meet."

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100 Years Ago Today - 19 Oct. 1915

One hundred years ago today, 19 October 1915, Tuesday, the Tulsa Daily World, Tulsa, Oklahoma, was reporting the following front page headline: "All Night Long They Talked Suffragism." In every city in New Jersey women spoke until daylight that morning. President Wilson was to vote, and democrats and republicans were split; none would forecast the results.

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Buckskin Alice, Bat Masterson & Gamblers (1893)

It was on 8 October 1893, Sunday, in The Time, out of Philadelphis, Pennsylvania, that we found this news article of Buckskin Alice. She was the west's professional woman gambler, an extraordinary character. A native of St. Louis and a charming person who arrived a gambler and supported herself and her children in 1893 by this means of gambling.

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A 1913 Poem - "The Suffragettes"

It was a Sunday, 2 February 1913, that we found this suffragettes poem on page 8 of "The Morning Tulsa Daily World (Tulsa, Oklahoma).

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Bat Masterson - "Bad Man?"

Do you remember watching the television westerns back in the late 1950's and early 1960's or was it in the '70's? Particularly the series they called "Bat Masterson." They portrayed him as a "good guy," but how good was he? Was he also a gambler? Did he begin as a bad man, champion gun fighter, scout, buffalo hunter, and known as: "Bat Masterson a terror of the west?"

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Bat Masterson & Earp

In the Sunday Gazette-Mail, of Charleston, West Virginia, dated 2 March 1975, Sunday, page 75, we found this interesting article concerning Earp and Bat Masterson.

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Who Was Billy the Kid?

Who really was Billy the Kid? Was he a short, bucktoothed, narrow shouldered youth? Did he die of "justifiable homicide" or by ambush by Sheriff Garrett?

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