Holidays & Snow Scenes
Last week while we were getting piles of snow in the Southwest Rocky Mountains, Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri were being blanketed with power outages because of the ice storm that swooped through that area last week. Hopeful they have the electricity plugged back in and people are beginning to feel the warmth of their heaters ... again! Indians of OklahomaWe found this little bit of history of the Indians of Oklahoma in A Standard History of Oklahoma, Volume 1, by Thoburn [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Pioneer George Weaber - Dacoma, OK
Here is a bio of a northwest Oklahoma pioneer that settled in the Dacoma, Oklahoma area. The thriving little community of Dacoma, Oklahoma was especially fortunate in its men of business and finance. Among them no one was held in higher respect, esteem than the energetic, progressive cashier of the State Bank of Dacoma. That business man was George Weaber. Pioneer Henry Turner Miller - Chickasaw NationHere is another Oklahoma pioneer, Henry Turner Miller, who settled around the Purcell and Norman area that brought a pioneer printing, newspaper plant from his former home in Kansas [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Pioneer Albert Wesley Lewis - Dacoma, OK
Here is another Dacoma, Oklahoma pioneer from the earlier days, Albert Wesley Lewis. Anyone out there remember Mr. Albert W. Lewis? Icy Weather In Oklahoma"Good morning (December 10, 2007)! About two weeks ago all the smiling faces on local TV stations began telling us how they were getting prepared for the winter storms that might come our way, and they were optimistic that there would be fewer power outages this year (among other things) because they were 'ready for anything mother nature could throw our way' [more]... | View or Add Comments (2 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Growing Up In Oklahoma & Mince Meat PieWe are in the process of taking down Kenneth Updike's stories and ramblings of "Growing Up In Oklahoma" because Kenneth asked us, "To remove all of my previous writings to you about my Ramblins [more]... | View or Add Comments (1 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe SW Colorado Mtn Snow"By noon on Monday (Dec [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Weather In Westmoreland (KS) America"We are okay here [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Waynoka 2008 Collectors Calendar"The 2008 Waynoka Historical Society Collectors Calendar is ready for purchasing! The cover is from a very early color postcard of the Waynoka Santa Fe Depot and Harvey House [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Jimmy Franklin & Jet Boosted Waco UPF-7"This is the guy and airplane that I have a picture of you standing with at the Fairview, OK airshow that is hanging on my wall [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Man who invented 'Okie'"I received this reply from Richard Reddick, Ben Reddick's son and thought it might be of interest to you [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe An Alvan's WebcamYou can view | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Women's Roll in the 1950's"I was married in 1955, and I can assure you that most wives then didn''t follow those rules [more]... | View or Add Comments (0 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe Alva, OK SnowNorthwest Oklahoma gets snow this weekend, in Alva, Oklahoma [more]... | View or Add Comments (1 Comments) | Receive updates ( subscribers) | Unsubscribe A Different Christmas Poem!
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