In 1939, governors of Oklahoma and 21 other states opted to celebrate the traditional Thanksgiving date rather than a week earlier (what some referred to as "Franksgiving" after FDR).
A reporter who interviewed Oklahoma war correspondent Earnest Hoberecht more than 10 years after he returned to his home town of Watonga in 1966 didn t know how to begin writing
A protest against making the redbud the state s official tree touched off a skirmish among club women and sent Oklahomans scurrying to their dictionaries, encyclopedias and Bibles in 1937.
Former Tulsan William Lawrence Boyd, a one-time playboy, became a "wonderful guy" to conform to characteristics of his movie screen role as the good guy in the black hat.