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Thomas Gilcrease

Author : Randy Ramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780972565776
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (657 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Gilcrease written by Randy Ramer and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Thomas Gilcrease (1890-1962) is the story of the world's first oil boom, of a state in its formative years, of marriages and fortunes made and lost--but most lastingly it is the story of how the Gilcrease collection came to exist, and how Gilcrease Museum became an unparalleled treasure house now owned by the citizens of Tulsa, Oklahoma. With over 500,000 artifacts, pieces of art, and archival gems, it is a testament to one man's dedication and vision. In Thomas Gilcrease, the man behind that museum is revealed. Born in 1890, Thomas Gilcrease came of age at roughly the same time that Indian Territory became the forty-sixth state of the Union, in 1907. As a citizen of the Creek Nation, he received a 160-acre allotment near Kiefer--land located, as it turned out, within the famous Glenn Pool oil field. By August 1909, the forty-nine wells on this parcel were producing 25,000 barrels a month. Gilcrease and his wife began traveling the country, taking in art galleries and museums in New York City and the World's Fair in San Francisco. It was in Tulsa, however, that he purchasedRural Courtship, his first piece of art, and began a collection that eventually contained thousands As he advanced in age and his wealth increased, Gilcrease contemplated how to use his fortune to create something of value for future generations. In 1931 he told his friend Robert Humber of his decision: he would establish the Gilcrease Foundation, which would fund a museum, a library, and a home for underprivileged children. The ten essays in this volume, illustrated with more than 100 color images and rarely seen historical photographs, tell the story of one man's life and legacy. The contributors include present and former staff of the Gilcrease Museum and regular contributors to its journal. "Every man must leave a track," Gilcrease once said, "and it might as well be a good one."

The Great Oklahoma Swindle

Author : Russell Cobb
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149623040X
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book The Great Oklahoma Swindle written by Russell Cobb and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2022-03 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Russell Cobb’s The Great Oklahoma Swindle is a rousing and incisive examination of the regional culture and history of “Flyover Country” that demystifies the political conditions of the American Heartland.

The Pacific Reporter

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Pacific Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Treasures of Gilcrease

Author : Anne Morand
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806199566
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Treasures of Gilcrease written by Anne Morand and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, Thomas Gilcrease, a native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, opened the first museum devoted to the art of the American West. A true visionary, Gilcrease was ahead of his time in understanding the importance of America’s own heritage. His passion for art and history, his Native American ancestry, and his oil revenues coincided in a rare alignment. His legacy is an astounding collection of paintings, sculptures, artifacts, rare books, and documents. This lavishly produced book, featuring nearly two hundred color reproductions, tells the story of Gilcrease and of the renowned museum that bears his name. Compiled by the museum’s curators, Treasures of Gilcrease exemplifies the beauty and breadth of the museum’s resources. The fine art collection alone boasts more than 10,000 American works, ranging in styles from classical to romantic to impressionist and by such master artists as George Catlin, Charles M. Russell, Thomas Moran, and Frederic Remington. The works by Native artists also span styles ranging from painted hides to twentieth-century flat-style. The artifacts—300,000-plus pieces housed in the galleries and vaults—include ceramics, clothing, pipes, and objects of utility, ceremony, and ornamentation. The archives collection contains some 100,000 manuscripts, books, photographs, maps, imprints, and broadsides. Treasures of Gilcrease offers a vivid and engaging tour through these collections in the company of the experts who know them best.

Thomas Moran

Author : Thomas Moran
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806127040
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Moran written by Thomas Moran and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This illustrated catalog of Thomas Moran’s field sketches includes an interpretive essay tracing the artist’s seventy-year career in the field; a chronological, stylistic, and geographical survey of his fieldwork; an illustrated checklist of the 1080 sketches in public collections. Moran is best known for his work in the American West during the post-Civil War expansion, particularly in what would become Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, and Yosemite national parks. Yet this virtuoso painter and draftsman also traveled in search of inspiration in Pennsylvania, New York’s Long Island, Florida, Wisconsin, Mexico, England, Scotland, Wales, France, and Italy, returning repeatedly to favorite subjects. An almost compulsive desire to sketch refined his innate skill as one of America’s finest landscape artists. Most of Moran’s known field sketches are reproduced here. As described in the introduction, “their range encompasses summary contour drawings of the spectacular topography of the American West, luminous watercolors that simultaneously fix local color and evoke the artist’s rapturous response to the natural world, and fully realized works that nevertheless preserve the intensity of Moran’s firsthand experience of his plein air subjects.” No serious formal study of Thomas Moran can be made without reference to this volume.

Knowing the West

Author : Mindy N. Besaw
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
ISBN 13 : 084783705X
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book Knowing the West written by Mindy N. Besaw and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 2024-09-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This expansive survey of the art and culture of the American West presents richly diverse works by more than 35 distinct Native American nations considered alongside non-Native artists from the late eighteenth to early twentieth centuries. Knowing the West encourages deeper consideration of the variety of cultures that together reflect the complex histories and stories of the American West. Astonishing in range, historical significance, medium, and quality, more than 120 artworks by Native American and non-Native artists are presented—including textiles, baskets, paintings, pottery, beadwork, saddles, and prints—including many by women. The artworks are shown in meaningful dialogue, such as baskets by Elizabeth Hickox (Wiyot/Karuk) juxtaposed with a large-scale California landscape by Albert Bierstadt, or New Mexican tinwork in conversation with a beaded valise by Nellie Two Bear Gates (Dakota), emphasizing influence and exchange and pointing out different ways of thinking about land and place. Multiple texts by a diverse range of scholars with broad-reaching perspectives explore topics such as history and making of Lakota winter counts, the development of saddles and bridles from across cultures, and the influence of the railroad and tourism on Southwestern pottery. This unprecedented volume centers Native voices and perspectives, prompting further thinking and research about the art history of the West.

Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas

Author : Louis Nicolas
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773538763
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Codex Canadensis and the Writings of Louis Nicolas written by Louis Nicolas and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2011 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A natural history and illustrations of the New World in the seventeenth century.

The Year of Fear

Author : Joe Urschel
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1250020808
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Year of Fear written by Joe Urschel and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A compelling tale that looks at the turbulent year of 1933, and the narrative reads like the most nail-biting thriller imaginable—yet it’s all true.” —Salon It’s 1933 and Prohibition has given rise to the American gangster—now infamous names like Bonnie and Clyde and John Dillinger. Bank robberies at gunpoint are commonplace and kidnapping for ransom is the scourge of a lawless nation. With local cops unauthorized to cross state lines in pursuit and no national police force, safety for kidnappers is just a short trip on back roads they know well from their bootlegging days. Gangster George “Machine Gun” Kelly and his wife, Kathryn, are some of the most celebrated criminals of the Great Depression. With gin-running operations facing extinction and bank vaults with dwindling stores of cash, Kelly sets his sights on the easy-money racket of kidnapping. His target: rich oilman, Charles Urschel. Enter J. Edgar Hoover, a desperate Justice Department bureaucrat who badly needs a successful prosecution to save his job. Hoover’s agents are given the sole authority to chase kidnappers across state lines. What follows is a thrilling 20,000 mile chase over the back roads of Depression-era America, crossing 16 state lines. Joe Urschel’s The Year of Fear is a thrilling true crime story of gangsters and lawmen and how an obscure federal bureaucrat used this now legendary kidnapping case to launch the FBI. “A good, fast read. . . . The Year of Fear takes off—and shatters the lore.” —The Washington Post “A swift narrative and strong sense of place.” —USA Today “Many true-crime books claim to shine a light on their chosen eras. This one is the real deal.” —Booklist starred review

The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory

Author : Bradley R. Clampitt
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 080327727X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory written by Bradley R. Clampitt and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-12-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Indian Territory the Civil War is a story best told through shades of gray rather than black and white or heroes and villains. Since neutrality appeared virtually impossible, the vast majority of territory residents chose a side, doing so for myriad reasons and not necessarily out of affection for either the Union or the Confederacy. Indigenous residents found themselves fighting to protect their unusual dual status as communities distinct from the American citizenry yet legal wards of the federal government. The Civil War and Reconstruction in Indian Territory is a nuanced and authoritative examination of the layers of conflicts both on and off the Civil War battlefield. It examines the military from and the home front; the experience of the Five Nations and those of the agency tribes in the western portion of the territory; the severe conflicts between Native Americans and the federal government and between Indian nations and their former slaves during and beyond the Reconstruction years; and the concept of memory as viewed through the lenses of Native American oral traditions and the modern evolution of public history. These carefully crafted essays by leading scholars such as Amanda Cobb-Greetham, Clarissa Confer, Richard B. McCaslin, Linda W. Reese, and F. Todd Smith will help teachers and students better understand the Civil War, Native American history, and Oklahoma history." --Back cover.

Tulsa's Haunted Memories

Author : Teri French
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738583877
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (838 download)

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Download or read book Tulsa's Haunted Memories written by Teri French and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the forgotten history and lost folklore of “America's Most Beautiful City,” which has a haunting history that will captivate the reader with the secrets it holds from its intriguing past, while mystery and mystique follow Tulsa's urban legends and prove that truth can be stranger than fiction. Original.

The Cowboy Encyclopedia

Author : Richard W. Slatta
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393314731
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book The Cowboy Encyclopedia written by Richard W. Slatta and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.

Indian Play

Author : Lisa K. Neuman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 149620932X
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Indian Play written by Lisa K. Neuman and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Indian University--now Bacone College--opened its doors in Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) in 1880, it was a small Baptist institution designed to train young Native Americans to be teachers and Christian missionaries among their own people and to act as agents of cultural assimilation. From 1927 to 1957, however, Bacone College changed course and pursued a new strategy of emphasizing the Indian identities of its students and projecting often-romanticized images of Indianness to the non-Indian public in its fund-raising campaigns. Money was funneled back into the school as administrators hired Native American faculty who in turn created innovative curricular programs in music and the arts that encouraged their students to explore and develop their Native identities. Through their frequent use of humor and inventive wordplay to reference Indianness--"Indian play"--students articulated the (often contradictory) implications of being educated Indians in mid-twentieth-century America. In this supportive and creative culture, Bacone became an "Indian school," rather than just another "school for Indians." In examining how and why this transformation occurred, Lisa K. Neuman situates the students' Indian play within larger theoretical frameworks of cultural creativity, ideologies of authenticity, and counterhegemonic practices that are central to the fields of Native American and indigenous studies today.

Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950

Author : Dean A. Porter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780826321091
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Taos Artists and Their Patrons, 1898-1950 written by Dean A. Porter and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-illustrated study of the patronage that allowed the fledging art colony in northern New Mexico to flourish.

Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis

Author : Biloine W. Young
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252068218
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Cahokia, the Great Native American Metropolis written by Biloine W. Young and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five centuries before the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts, indigenous North Americans had already built a vast urban center on the banks of the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today. This is the story of North America's largest archaeological site, told through the lives, personalities, and conflicts of the men and women who excavated and studied it. At its height the metropolis of Cahokia had twenty thousand inhabitants in the city center with another ten thousand in the outskirts. Cahokia was a precisely planned community with a fortified central city and surrounding suburbs. Its entire plan reflected the Cahokian's concept of the cosmos. Its centerpiece, Monk's Mound, ten stories tall, is the largest pre-Columbian structure in North America, with a base circumference larger than that of either the Great Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt or the Pyramid of the Sun at Teotihuacan in Mexico. Nineteenth-century observers maintained that the mounds, too sophisticated for primitive Native American cultures, had to have been created by a superior, non-Indian race, perhaps even by survivors of the lost continent of Atlantis. Melvin Fowler, the "dean" of Cahokia archaeologists, and Biloine Whiting Young tell an engrossing story of the struggle to protect the site from the encroachment of interstate highways and urban sprawl. Now identified as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO and protected by the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Cahokia serves as a reminder that the indigenous North Americans had a past of complexity and great achievement.

Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1124 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170 (c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954 written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture in the American Southwest

Author : Keith L. Bryant
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623492084
Total Pages : 581 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Culture in the American Southwest written by Keith L. Bryant and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-01 with total page 581 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, painting, sculpture, architecture, and literature. But their inherited culture was altered, challenged, and reshaped by Native American and Hispanic peoples, and a new, vibrant cultural life resulted. From Houston to Los Angeles, from Tulsa to Tucson, Keith L. Bryant traces the development of "high culture" in the Southwest. Humans create culture, but in the Southwest, Bryant argues, the land itself has also influenced that creation. "Incredible light, natural grandeur, . . . and a geography at once beautiful and yet brutal molded societies that sprang from unique cultural sources." The peoples of the American Southwest share a regional consciousness—an experience of place—that has helped to create a unified, but not homogenized, Southwestern culture. Bryant also examines a paradox of Southwestern cultural life. Southwesterners take pride in their cultural distinctiveness, yet they struggled to win recognition for their achievements in "high culture." A dynamic tension between those seeking to re-create a Western European culture and those desiring one based on regional themes and resources continues to stimulate creativity. Decade by decade and city by city, Bryant charts the growth of cultural institutions and patronage as he describes the contributions of artists and performers and of the elites who support them. Bryant focuses on the significant role women played as leaders in the formation of cultural institutions and as writers, artists, and musicians. The text is enhanced by more than fifty photographs depicting the interplay between the people and the land and the culture that has resulted.

LIFE

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book LIFE written by and published by . This book was released on 1954-03-08 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.