The Klansman and the Beauty Queen What you don't know can really mess with your head.

The Klansman and the Beauty Queen
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Russell Cobb (@allcrooksattulsa) I started my newsletter as a space to document the untold fraud committed by Charles Page and the Sand Springs Home. Those entities took possession of the Tommy Atkins oil lease and made Page one of O...

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ICE Separated A Family In Midtown Tulsa - The Pickup Immigration detentions in Oklahoma are on the rise. One case shows how ICE’s cooperation with Tulsa County makes it possible.

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I'm not him No, I'm not that guy from The Lowdown or his real-life counterpart. Please stop asking.

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Ep. 6 Go Down, Moses. The warrior Moses Naharkey confronts a new reality.

Ep. 6 Go Down, Moses.
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What’s So Wrong With Oklahoma City Building A Tower To The Heavens? - The Pickup Okie ex-pat JP Brammer goes long on Legends Tower, a fishy nonprofit, and whether or not Oklahoma is for dreamers.

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Ep. 4 Back me back to Tallasi. A swanky hotel and a trip back into the real history of Tulsa.

Ep. 4 Back me back to Tallasi.
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Episode 3: The Curtis Bill and Wahiley Naharkey Trouble comes to a tribal town, and then to the Naharkey family.

Episode 3: The Curtis Bill and Wahiley Naharkey
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Me too! That's the thing about Oklahoma history: there's always something new to find out.

Episode 2: The Distorting Mirror of Tulsa Digging deeper in my house's abstract, a massive betrayal takes shape

Episode 2: The Distorting Mirror of Tulsa
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Episode 1: We Belong to the Land? On patents, baseball, and a tree in midtown Tulsa

Episode 1: We Belong to the Land?
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Nasty Newspapers 2: America First, Political Violence And Intimidation In Tulsa  - The Pickup When two men were killed less than 24 hours apart in 1918, Tulsa's elite cheered. It was a place where seditious speech could prove fatal.

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Great piece!

Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - The Pickup Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.

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Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - The Pickup Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.

Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - thepickup.com/nasty-newspa...

Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - The Pickup Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.

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Understanding Minnie Atkins-Folk “Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don't-the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear.” --David Grann, The Wager

The Oil Capital has torn out the pages of Minnie Atkins-Folk's lifestory in the role of its history. It has imposed a dark silence about her confession that Tommy Atkins was a fraud.
Here's a bit more about her.
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The True Story of Tulsa’s Forgotten Antihero, Sadie James - The Pickup A century ago, everyone in Tulsa knew about Sadie James and her saloon, the Bucket of Blood. But where was it? And how did the child of an enslaved woman, raised in a Kansas brothel, become the most f...

The undisputed baddie genius of the Tulsa underworld. The greatest antihero you've never heard of: Sadie James
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The True Story of Tulsa’s Forgotten Antihero, Sadie James - The Pickup A century ago, everyone in Tulsa knew about Sadie James and her saloon, the Bucket of Blood. But where was it? And how did the child of an enslaved woman, raised in a Kansas brothel, become the most f...

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William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97 He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

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Can the Rodeo Save a Historic Black Town? One woman’s quest to rescue Boley, Oklahoma

In its heyday, Boley, Oklahoma, a town built by Black people, was known for hosting the oldest Black rodeo in America — attracting visitors nationwide

Today, a group of volunteers hope the 121-year-old rodeo can help revitalize the dying town