Volume 15 , Issue 14

NW Okie's Corner

Before the snow started melting up at Vallecito Lake, North of Bayfield, Colorado, we took this image with our iPhone and used Adobe Photoshop Elements software to change it into a cross-hatch drawing. If you looked at the Lake right now, the snow on the dry parts of the lakebed and the mountains has since diminished, as compared in the image on the left while it still had snow cover.

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One Hundred Years Ago - 8 April 1913

One hundred years ago today there was an article in the Tulsa World, 8 April 1913, morning edition, that mentioned in the headlines: "Tulsa May Become Candidate For State Capital."

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Duchess of Weaselskin

As NW Okie's research and study of the Rocky mountain wildlife and raccoons goes, not much activity was seen except for one or two raccoons at a time, beginning around the 4th through the 5th, 6th, 7th and early morning hours of the 8th of April 2013.

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1913 - Rumor Sen. T. P. Gore Contemplates Resigning, Startles Oklahoma

The following headline was the other front page headline found in the Tulsa World, 8 April 1913, morning edition, which read: "Rumor That Gore Contemplates Resigning Startles Oklahoma." It stemmed for charges filed against the blind senator. They were also asking if the ex-governor, Charles Haskell would accept the vacancy that would be left by Senator Charles Gore.

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Summary of Rockbridge County, Virginia

There is an Indian legend to the beauty of the Shenandoah Valley, that it so awed the heavens that each star cast the brightest jewel from its own crown into the valley's limpid waters, to sparkle and shine ever after in a gesture of celestial benediction.

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1913 - Tulsa's 1st Cross Country Tour For Autos

Have you ever heard about the Tulsa County automobile association plan for the first road trip to be taken in 1913? How did that first automobile road trip turn out that would go from Bartlesville and back to Tulsa?

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1913 Tulsa Baseball Tidbits

In that same newspaper, Tulsa World, page five, dated 8 April 1913, that we have been reading for this weeks OkieLegacy Ezine, there were the following "Tulsa Baseball Bits" that I though some might be on interest to some early Oklahoma baseball enthusiasts.

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