oklahoma

Explores the controversies surrounding capital punishment in the United States, focusing on more than a dozen of the most controversial Oklahoma death penalty cases, including two in which innocent men nearly lost their lives.

Examines the Oklahoma land rush of 1889 to 1895, a period during which the U.S. government gave land away very cheaply to anyone willing to build on it, and discusses encounters with Native Americans, land claims, town building, and other related topics.

In 1908 thirteen-year-old Dixie's new life on the Oklahoma frontier is complicated by a war of nerves between her and John Three, a young Kiowa Indian who insists that his pony was sold to her without his permission.

Betty Grant Henshaw recounts her family's struggles to earn a living as tenant farmers in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era.

Four young women living in a convent near Ruby, Oklahoma, are viciously attacked in 1976 after residents become convinced the women are the source of the problems that have been sweeping the exclusively African-American community.

Amelia, long a ghost, forms a strong bond with eighteen-year-old Joshua, who nearly drowned where she did and who awakens in her long-forgotten senses and memories even as Eli, a spirit, tries to draw her away.

The prolific author describes how his interest in writing developed as he was growing up in the Oklahoma of the Depression and chronicles his years after World War II as a government worker in Africa and a Peace Corps official.

A biography of the Comanche chief who led his people against confinement on reservations, but once confinement occurred he helped the tribe to accept and benefit from reservation life.

In 1922, thirteen-year-old Woodrow Harper and his recently-widowed mother move to his father's childhood home in Lawton, Oklahoma, where he is torn between the "right people" of the Ku Klux Klan and those who encourage him to follow the path of his "nigra-loving" father.

Discusses the Cherokee chief who fought unsuccessfully to protect the land of his people, until they were forced to march along the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma.