Volume 17 , Issue 29

(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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"Oklahombres - Particularly the Wilder Ones," a newspaper series carried in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Tribune in 1931, will be seen in part at the police and sheriff's department booth in the coliseum at Lamar District fair that week.

The papers would be seen on that date were furnished to the police booth through the courtesy of Mrs. John W. Hixon, 338 West Kaufman street, wife of the late U. S. deputy Marshal Hixon, who served as an '89er in Oklahoma's territorial days.

The series, written by former U. S. Marshal E. D. Nix, gives highlights of Oklahoma's rougher days, and is built around such desperadoes as the Daltons, Bill Doolin, and Tulsa Jack. Tales of the wild days of the territory had been well knitted by the author. One of the papers showed Mr. Hixon's picture as he looked while in service.

Guns of many varieties, finger-printing equipment and other interesting displays were being shown in the police booth, which is the first one to the right as fair visitors entered the colliseum.
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