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Paragraphs from a Pitch Letter from the executive editor at saint Martins Press about this book and he says for years Bob Drury and Tom Clavin have been taking forgotten pieces of history and turning them into compelling narratives that illuminate the subjects. Making the historical figures or events leap off the page. And i concur with Daniel Boone. They have found the sub perfect subject for their unique brand of history. Hes a wellknown historical adventurer shrouded in legend. This fastpaced and fiery narratives fueled by contemporary diaries and Journals Newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts. Is sturring as stirring chronicle of the conflict over americas first frontier that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epic and its a gripping tales of courage and sacrifice. Bob drury and Tom Clavin are the number one New York times bestselling authors of the heart of everything that is. Lucky six six Halseys Typhoon last man out and the last stand of Box Company which wo
Subject for their unique brand of history. Hes a wellknown historical adventurer shrouded in legend. This fastpaced and fiery narrative fueled by contemporary diaries and Journals Newspaper reports and eyewitness accounts. Is sturring as a Stirring Chronicle of the conflict over americas first frontier that places the reader at the center of this remarkable epic and its a gripping tales of courage and sacrifice. Bob drury and Tom Clavin are the number one New York times bestselling authors of the heart of everything that is. Lucky six six Halseys Typhoon last man out and the last stand of Box Company which won the marine Corps Heritage foundations general Wallace M green junior award. They have just learned today that the book is on the New York times bestseller list. And it is number one at watermark books and cafe on our bestseller list. So i just want to give you both a warm welcome and i will turn the virtual stage over to you bob. Thank you sarah. Thank you so much. Thank you so m
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Park tells Union Army Veteran john rankins story. At the term in the Century Tulsa was a windswept desolate prairie town. It was literally a Cow Town the cattle trails that the cattle drives from, texas to kansas the cattle would excuse me would come right through main street in Downtown Tulsa. All that changed with the discovery of oil now tulsa itself never discovered oil. There was never oil inside city limits, but the pioneers wanted to create an Oil Capital here and to do that it had to convince outsiders that tulsa was an entrepreneurial haven and so it did that in order to attract the the the roustabouts and roughnecks from the south to to work in the oil fields and to to attract the capitalists and financiers from the east to bankroll the operations they had to to, you know, convince everyone through through boosterism and and bribing the railroads and Share Bravado that this was an oil mecca and it did become the Service And Finance center for the Oil Industry the Population B