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Title: Astronauts, Athletes, & Ambassadors : Oklahoma Women from1950-2007
Author: Glenda Carlile
Description: Pioneers in their own way, these women continue to open new frontiers and bring glory to Oklahoma. Some of these prominent women are: Jerrie Cobb, Shannon Lucid, Shannon Miller, Bertha Teague, Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, Mayor Mazola McKerson, June Brooks, Clara Luper, Chief Wilma Mankiller, the Five Miss Americas, Kay Starr, Reba McEntire, Wanda Jackson, Carrie Underwood, Billie Letts, Doris Travis, Ida “B”Blackburn, Leona Mitchell, Alma Wilson, Donna Nigh, Mary Fallin, Merline Lovelace, and General Rita Aragon.
About the Author: Although not a native Oklahoman, Glenda Carlile considers herself an “Okie” by interest and love. Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Florida, she knew little about Oklahoma before moving to the state in 1962. She attributes her love of Oklahoma history to her husband, Tom, a native Oklahoman.
A former newspaper correspondent for The Daily Oklahoman and The Midwest City Sun and the operator of a local tour company, Glenda became fascinated with the many women who played prominent roles in Oklahoma history and how little is known about them

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What was it like to live in the "Greatest Oil Field in the World" just after statehood?
Title: Lakes of Oil: Ben Russell's Rare Photo Record of an Early-Day Oklahoma Oil Boom
Author: Eileene Russell Huff
Description: Eileene Russell Huff offers the reader a tremendous gift through the work of her photographer father in this rare photo collection of the Drumright-Cushing oil field as it was developing from 1912 through 1918. It was said that this great field of 3,000 oil wells was instrumental to the allies winning of World War I. In addition to over 240 remarkable, never published photographs, Eileene richly captures life in a turn-of-the century Oklahoma boom town through her narrative –– as related by her father, Ben Russell. The stories and photographs of this volume will show the reader how people lived during these exciting, dangerous, and legendary times through conditions often unbelievable. It is a photographic memorial to an exciting segment of Oklahoma, and America, moving forward!
Contents:

The Wheeler #1 in the Cushing-Drumright Field opened the largest oilfield in the world in 1912. Production was so staggering, storages could not contain the overflow. This forced the oil to seek its own level, creating "Lakes of Oil."


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Jim Marion Etter
Author of

* What a Dirty Shame!: 100 Unforgettable Place Names of Oklahoma
* Ghost-Town Tales of Oklahoma: Unforgettable Stories of Nearly Forgotten Places
* Between Me & You & The Gatepost: Rural Expressions of Oklahoma
* Thunder in the Heartland: Parables from Oklahoma


Jim Marion Etter is a retired reporter for The Daily Oklahoman newspaper and a freelance writer, mostly about rural people and places.

He grew up in the small eastern Oklahoma town of Oktaha, and his first newspaper job was with The Muskogee Daily Phoenix & Times-Democrat.



His other books include “The Grains of Time” and “Oktaha, A Track in the Sand.” He’s among the authors in anthologies including “New Trails,” “Daughters of the Land,” “Western Horse Trails” and “The Salt of the Earth.”

He's written for magazines including American Cowboy, Western Horseman, Persimmon Hill, Desert Exposure, True West, Frontier Times, Cowboy, Western Digest, Route 66, Oklahoma Today, Country Discoveries and ByLine; and other newspapers such as The St. Petersburg Times in Florida and the Spanish language El Nacional in Oklahoma. His news stories and features in The Oklahoman number in the hundreds.

He belongs to organizations such as Oklahoma Writers' Federation and Western Writers of America, and he's won a few awards here and there.



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