EXPLORING THE WEST, NIGHT AND DAY, WITH BRUSH AND COLOR – The extraordinary creative metamorphosis of Frederic Remington

FREDERIC REMINGTON 1/3 – He was an American painter and writer, who specialized in depictions of the Old American West (specifically concentrating on the last quarter of the 19th century American West and images of cowboys, American Indians, and the U.S. Cavalry). He was born in Canton, New York, and Remington’s father was a colonel in the Civil War (whose …

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ROUTE 66 / EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW AND SEE IN OKLAHOMA

Everyone loves to travel, but not everyone loves to travel the same way. All you have to do is have the time in your life. Meeting Benches. The way to make the world a better place is easy. Choose a bench, where you can publish what you have painted or written, a review of a book that you’ve read, or …

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OKLAHOMA MUSIC SONG AND DANCE

Ermineskin Grand Entry Pow Wow https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w17qY4x0YI4 Carlos Nakai: Earth Spirit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19nm5_nAwQg Best Country Music Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIMzLgA2Z50 Oklahoma Country Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFd4BwdI6mA

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THE GRAPES OF WRATH – Novel by John Steinbeck

He was born in Salinas, California, on February day, 1902. Attended Stanford University without graduating (and though he lived briefly in New York), John Steinbeck remained a lifelong Californian. He began writing novels in 1929, and frequently used his fiction to delve into the lives of society’s most downtrodden citizens. A trio of novels in the late 1930s focused on …

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LANCE HENSON, CHEYENNE POET – POEMS

He is Cheyenne, Oglala and French. He served in the U. S. Marine Corps after high school, during the Vietnam War, and is a graduate of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts in Chickasha. He was born in Washington, D. C. in 1944. He was raised on a farm near Calumet, Oklahoma by his great aunt and uncle, Bertha and Bob …

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BROKEN APRIL – Romance by Ismail Kadare

He is a writer, essayist, poet and writer born in a southern city of Albania, who graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology at the University of Tirana. At first he devoted himself to poetry, but in 1963 he wrote his first novel. In 1990 to express their disapproval of the immobility of the Albanian Communist leadership, he requested …

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13 DAYS TO GLORY – Novel by Lon Tinkle

He was born on March day, in Dallas. His career as a writer and teacher spanned fifty-four years, beginning in 1942. He is best known for his books (especially those which focused on younger readers), as Thirteen Days to Glory /The Siege of the Alamo, The Cowboy Reader and The Key to Dallas. He was a member of the Philosophical …

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