Volume 12 , Issue 51

Duchess & Sadie's Snowy Domain

With five days until Christmas, this last Saturday NW Okie finally made it in to Durango, Colorado to finish up some Christmas shopping and snapped this image of the 482 Durango-Silverton narrow gauge steam locomotive that was coming into the Durango Railroad station in the early afternoon hours on Saturday, 18 December 2010.

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Home Comfort Cookbook (1934) - Evolution of the Home Comfort Range

On page 15 thru 20 of my Wrought Iron Range Home Comfort Cookbook, it shows series of illustrations of the evolution or progressive development of the Home Comfort Range, beginning without he "Farmer" cook stove, the first stove manufactured and sold direct to the home by the founders of the Wrought Iron Range Company in 1864.

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NW Okie's R & R In San Juan Mtns

With eleven days left of 2010 we find ourselves reaching the end of this year's Volume 12 of the OkieLegacy Ezine, beginning Vol. 13 next year for 2011. AND ... Only five days until Christmas! Where has the time gone?

We have had cloud covers for the last few days with a mixture of snow and rain accumulations in the San Juan mountains (approx. 7-inches so far) with 18 inches added on to the Wolf Creeks Ski base in the last few days Making a 52-inch base).

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Pittsburg, KS High School

One of our OkieLegacy readers mentions, "The (Pittsburg, KS) high school still stands [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Oklahoma, The Next Star on the Flag

The Oklahoma Book - Oklahoma The Next Star on the Flag, feature from OkieLegacy, Vol. 6, Iss. 43, brought the following comment from Anrew, "Do you know the copyright date on this book???"

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Col. Kirkbride's Peanut Brittle

For this week I thought I would look up my cousin, Stan Paris' variation of Col. Kirkbride's Peanut Brittle that he made every year for people around the northwest parts of Oklahoma way back when. You can also find this Peanut Brittle recipe in MyCookbook menu at the top of the page, listed under Sweets."

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This Day In History (Dec. 20)

Do you remember the Rock-n-Roll star, Elvis the Pelvis, from the 1950's?

On this day in history, December 18 1957, Rock-n-Roll star, Elvis Presley, while spending the Christmas holidays at his newly purchased Tennessee mansion (Graceland), lost his sideburns and pompadour hairstyle when he was drafted into the United States Army.

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