Cool Fall Temps Hit Alva
We either followed a cool front of Fall into northwest Oklahoma last week, OR... it followed us! The grass pastures look more like Spring than September and August, though. The 1893 Run At CaldwellFully ten thousand people make that grand rush for land in 1893 [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe OkieLegacy Centennial Moment
The Run For Homes... Seventy-Five thousand In The Scramble. The Strip Is Opened At Last. The Horses Beat the Railroad Trains, Because of the Terrible Crash -- The Crack of 100 Carbines -- The Signal -- The Stampede For Land -- No Casualties of a Serious Nature Reported -- Scenes and Incidents. The 1893 Run At OrlandoThe newspaper reported twenty-five thousand people make the rush -- many sooners already were there and jumped the sounding of the gun [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe September Celebrations In Northwest Oklahoma
The Campus... "A Silent message thru the ages -
Is delivered to the races passing by, -
And the wisdom of the sages -
Flashes futily from the sturdy eye, -
Watching Life's laughter, song and tears -
Thru the eager march of onward years; -
With quiet, unperturbed, mobile face -
Inspires us to live with equal grace.' --
[Taken from The Ranger 1926 yearbook.] The 1893 Run At StillwaterTen thousand sturdy farmers make the run from that line [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe 1893 Pioneer TidbitsWe thought, being 114 years ago this weekend, that we would share the following pioneer prairie pieces of tidbits that we gathered from The Alva Pioneer, dated Friday, January, 1894, Alva, Oklahoma Territory (O.T.). [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe 1893 -The Alva Pioneer, in Alva, M County, O [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Alva! Where Is It?
In an old 1893 newspaper, The Alva Pioneer, Alva, O.T., M county, there was an article with headlines that read: "Alva! Where it is Located; How it is surrounded." September 22, 1893 NewsThe First Issue, Volume 1 [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe A Shrewd Old Mam (Man)Here is another news item that appeared in The AlvA Pioneer, dated Friday, October 20, 1893, Alva, M County, O [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Union Pacific Railroad's Steam Engine #844| View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Surnames of Short Springs Cemetery"I have made an error and thus I have forced you into an error [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Great-Grandparents (HURT/MARKVICKA)"My name is Diana Anne Hoffmann-Rodriguez, my maiden name is Bazar and we have a connection in common [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Indiana POW Camps (WWII)"Can you tell me about the prisoner of war camp at Windfall, Indiana? We have a few pictures but we wanted the name of the prisoners, and all that has been written about POW camps, never mentions this place [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Fly the Flag 9/11/07"My flag here at home will be out this week and next [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Oklahoma History & Family Genealogy SiteLink to Oklahoma History & Family Genealogy [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe 1893 - Alva Building & Loan Assoc.On the first week or so of January, 1893 the Alva Building and Loan Association met in the Alva State Bank on Wednesday evening, January 10th, 1893, and the following officers were elected: W [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe 1893 - O. T. Guidelines For Homesteaders
The 1893 The Alva Pioneer also had these guidelines for homesteaders: 1893 - Pioneer CitizensThis 1893 news article came from The Alva Pioneer, dated September 22, 1893, Alva, M County, O [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe The Spirit of NorthwesternThe following "Spirit of Northwestern" was taken from the 1937 The Ranger Annual, Northwestern State Teachers' College as written by Ed Aud [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe What A Statue! Perryan Creates Larger-Than-Life Billy Sims TributeThis news article appeared in the Perry Daily Journal, Wednesday, September 12, 2007, headlines: "What A Statue! Perryan Creates Larger-Than-Life Billy Sims Tribute" - written by Hailey R [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe
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