Volume 8 , Issue 26

Celebration & An American Tribute...

Gettysburg Address - by Abraham Lincoln, November 19, 1863 -- "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...." --

Happy Birthday, America -- "When a bunch of fellows from Boston held a big party with tea, That's where your cradle was started and they called it Liberty. At Bunker Hill could be heard among the hues and the cries, 'Steady men don't fire, until you see the whites of their eyes.' So when those fellows got together again to draw up and sign a form, They called it a Declaration and that's how you were born....."

Song of Liberty, Patriotic Poems & Inspirations... "Across the vast wide prairie where tall grain meets the sun, wagon trains carried settlers on journeys first begun The wind was called Mariah as it sang its old sweet song, buffalo grazed, prairie dogs played, sod houses there belonged....." -- Song of the Plains

Oklahoma's Centennial... "Centennial Year Kickoff, Nov 9, 2006 - Nov 19, 2006, Tulsa - Premier Events - Tulsa has been designated the official host city for the kickoff of the year-long Oklahoma Centennial celebration, and many exciting events are currently being planned ....." -- Celebrate Oklahoma's Centennial

Native American & Oklahoma History... "Following the War of 1812 (1812-1815) the U.S. government decided to move Native Americans west of the Mississippi River to open up new land for white settlers from the East. One of the nation's most populous Native American regions covered western North and South Carolina, eastern Tennessee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, and Mississippi and was inhabited by the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole, and Cherokee. Whites referred to these peoples collectively as the Five Civilized Tribes....." -- Travel Photos by Galen R. Frysinger

History of Oklahoma Territory... A brief history of the formation of Oklahoma territory as printed in "The Indian Advocate", volume 14, issue number 1, January 1902. From the Report of Ex. Gov. Jenkins -- "Historically considered, Oklahoma as a territory is of recent origin, but as a small portion of the great tract of south-western country, known at various times and under various circumstances as Louisiana, Mandan Territory, the great American Desert, uninhabitable lands and the Indian Territory, it has a place in the history of the nation dating back to the days of the Spanish explorers, who sought in the great Southwest unknown empires and their reputed fabulous wealth. Following the course of travel described in many early Spanish manuscripts and books, one is readily convinced that the original Oklahoma boomers were the little army of adventurous spirits who traversed the Southwest under the leadership of De Soto, and that they were followed by Jesuits and others who sought wealth in the mineral veins of the mountains and hills of the Territory, there are unmistakable signs in lately discovered ruins of mines and places of early abode....." -- History of Oklahoma Territory

Life In Oklahoma Territory... "Hello to all who visit, browse, learn, and love history! This site is devoted to my discoveries in learning about the past - specifically, the history of where the South meets the West: Texas and Oklahoma." -- Red River Historian

Happy & Safe Independence Day To All!
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