A dirt-poor, legally incompetent Muscogee man known as Crazy Jack became fabulously wealthy after oil was discovered on his arbitrary allotment of rocky land near Henryetta.
As the longtime piano player for the sing-along segment of the melodrama The Drunkard and a performer at parties, Marna Graham McKinney could play almost any song written.
One of the first 300 Tulsa County men drafted for World War II service rose through the ranks to become the second black Army officer to receive a general s star.
The Tahlequah plumber and nightclub owner surrendered to an off-duty prison guard in a grocery store. Garland Rex Brinlee Jr. was covered with tick and chigger bites after wandering through