Oklahoma: A Story Through Her People
A full-color photography book showcasing Oklahoma paired with the histories of companies, institutions, and organizations that have made the state great.
A full-color photography book showcasing Oklahoma paired with the histories of companies, institutions, and organizations that have made the state great.
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Opposite, clockwise starting from the top:<br />
Citizen Potawatomi Nation Cultural <strong>Her</strong>itage<br />
Center in Shawnee, <strong>Oklahoma</strong>.<br />
PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY OF THE SHAWNEE CHAMBER<br />
OF COMMERCE.<br />
The <strong>Oklahoma</strong> City Philharmonic.<br />
The <strong>Oklahoma</strong> City Philharmonic.<br />
The National Cowboy and Western<br />
<strong>Her</strong>itage Museum in <strong>Oklahoma</strong> City.<br />
The world of fiction has been enriched<br />
by <strong>Oklahoma</strong> authors with romance, science<br />
fiction, and Western novels. Ralph Ellison<br />
drew up his childhood in northeast <strong>Oklahoma</strong><br />
City to write Invisible Man, considered one<br />
of America’s top five novels of the twentieth<br />
century. Louis L’Amour wrote than 100 fiction<br />
masterpieces. Tony Hillerman, Billie Letts,<br />
S. E. Hinton, Merline Lovelace, C. J. Cherryh,<br />
Rilla Askew, Michael Wallis, Glenn Shirley,<br />
and Carolyn Hart have produced best-selling<br />
books, and some have been made into<br />
major movies.<br />
Some of the early art in <strong>Oklahoma</strong> came<br />
from artists who traveled with expeditions<br />
sent to explore the new land and make a<br />
record of its natural resources and people.<br />
The American Indian Tribes that were relocated<br />
in <strong>Oklahoma</strong> produced many artists<br />
such as Woodrow Crumbo, a Pottawatomie;<br />
Jerome Tiger, a Creek-Seminole; and Acee<br />
Blue Eagle, the first American Indian artist to<br />
embark on a solo career and travel worldwide<br />
to promote American Indian art.<br />
Above: The Gaylord-Pickens Museum,<br />
home of the <strong>Oklahoma</strong> Hall of Fame.<br />
Bottom, left: A seventy mile long strip of<br />
central <strong>Oklahoma</strong> is the only place in the<br />
world where the Barite Rose Rocks can be<br />
found. Nancy and Joe Stine of the Timberlake<br />
Rose Rock Museum in Noble, <strong>Oklahoma</strong>,<br />
(known as the Rose Rock Capital of the<br />
World) are the state’s foremost experts<br />
on the rose rock formation.<br />
Bottom, right: Barite Rose Rocks.<br />
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