The tragic tale of Reuben and Fred, two young cowboys on an errand to the Cimarron River salt flats in what is now Woods County, Oklahoma. Their final resting place is this lonely and windswept territory has been marked and remembered for the 155 years since the cowboys met their demise in one of the final chapters of the west when it was wild. Fred and Reuben were in the middle of the great Cheyenne Exodus. They were in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Here a little change of pace! I appeared on The Messy City with Kevin Klinkenberg, a podcast dedicated to discussing development and design of the places in which we live. It’s a great podcast and always leaves me thinking. Here’s the Messy City episode in which Kevin andI talk about these development and planning concepts and how they interact with regular folks. I hope you enjoy it and check out the other great episodes of the Messy City.
https://kevinklinkenberg.substack.com/p/writing-the-story-for-your-city-or#details
Dr. James Walker was an English professor, complete with a tweed jacket and a love for Mark Twain. But Big Jim Walker, his alter ego, was a guitar playing entertainer with his own transmitter free radio show. I learned many a lesson in the good doctor’s classroom…and a few on the radio show, too!
Some say a beloved entertainer, a star of television in it’s early days, lies buried just north of Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Others say an imposter is at rest beneath the large granite headstone. In this episode of Within The Realm, we investigate the mystery of who is in Ed’s grave.
The story was told about a thoughtless, coldblooded killing for years until it became lore. A closer look reveals two sides of the story, a clash of cultures that led to the death of “poor Mr. Dore.” P.J. Dore had come to the Indian Territory to make his mark on this new frontier, but to Tandy Folsom, it was no frontier at all. It was his home.
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