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The hot kid
\"Carlos Webster was fifteen in the fall of 1921, the first time he came face-to-face with a nationally known criminal. A few weeks later, he killed his first man--a cattle thief who was rustling his dad's stock. Now Carlos, called Carl, is the hot kid of the U.S. Marshals Service, one of the elite manhunters currently chasing the likes of Dillinger, Baby Face Nelson, and Pretty Boy Floyd across America's Depression-ravaged heartland. Carl wants to be the country's most famous lawman. Jack Belmont, the bent son of an oil millionaire, wants to be public enemy number one. Tony Antonelli of True Detective magazine wants to write about this world of cops and robbers, molls and speakeasies from perilously close up. Then there are the hot dames--Louly and Elodie--hooking their schemes and dreams onto dangerous men. And before the gunsmoke clears, everybody just might end up getting exactly what he or she wished for\"--Page 4 of cover.
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On the Turtle's Back
NJSAA Collected Primary Sources Award Winner (2023) The Lenape tribe, also known as the Delaware Nation, lived for centuries on the land that English colonists later called New Jersey.But once America gained its independence, they were forced to move further west: to Indiana, then Missouri, and finally to the territory that became Oklahoma.
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Kind of kin
Complications arise throughout his family when churchgoing and respected community member Robert John Brown's caught hiding a barnful of migrant workers with no papers.
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Tales of the Old Indian Territory and Essays on the Indian Condition
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Indian Territory, which would eventually become the state of Oklahoma, was a multicultural space in which various Native tribes, European Americans, and African Americans were equally engaged in struggles to carve out meaningful lives in a harsh landscape. John Milton Oskison, born in the territory to a Cherokee mother and an immigrant English father, was brought up engaging in his Cherokee heritage, including its oral traditions, and appreciating the utilitarian value of an American education.
Oskison left Indian Territory to attend college and went on to have a long career in New York City journalism, working for theNew York
Evening PostandCollier's Magazine. He also wrote short stories and essays for newspapers and magazines, most of which were about contemporary life in Indian Territory and depicted a complex multicultural landscape of cowboys, farmers, outlaws, and families dealing with the consequences of multiple interacting cultures.
Though Oskison was a well-known and prolific Cherokee writer, journalist, and activist, few of his works are known today. This first comprehensive collection of Oskison's unpublished autobiography, short stories, autobiographical essays, and essays about life in Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century fills a significant void in the literature and thought of a critical time and place in the history of the United States.
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Epicenter: Deep Mapping Place in Fiction and Nonfiction
Susy Hinton grew up fifty miles from me, in the same era I did, and in my junior high school we were also divided into socs and greasers, but teen angst and bullying and lost love and gang violence may take place anywhere.Because of my reading experiences, I believed these were the kinds of places fit for fiction.When we're talking about deep mapping place in nonfiction, we're talking about uncovering layers, sometimes seemingly disparate layers, of archeology, natural history, oral history, autobiography, science, folklore, memories, personal reportage, weather-much that is known broadly, much that isn't known.When I began to write a novel about the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot, reading archived black newspapers from the era gave me insight not only into the prevalence of lynchings in early-day Oklahoma, the daily degradations of Jim Crow, but also a sense of our thriving black communities.[...]I was thinking, too, of how the power of place is inseparable from the character of its people, how what I know about that little postage stamp of native soil, as Faulkner called it, is hardly a smidgen compared to the knowledge of my parents or grandparents, but that is a part of the excavation that cannot be researched or studied into life.
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Trust your name
When the Choctaw Nation sponsors an all-Indian high school basketball team to compete in a summer tournament, the team includes Choctaw Bobby Byington and other Indian high school players from Eastern Oklahoma.
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August: Osage County
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and the 2008 Tony Award for Best New Play. Now a major motion picture!
\"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people.\" -TimeOut New York
\"Tracy Letts'August: Osage Countyis what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original.\"-New York magazine
\"I don't care ifAugust: Osage Countyis three-and-a-half hours long. I wanted more.\" -Howard Shapiro,Philadelphia Inquirer
\"This original and corrosive black comedy deserves a seat at the table with the great American family plays.\"-Time
One of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays in recent history,August: Osage Countyis a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest-and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed. The three-act, three-and-a-half-hour mammoth of a play combines epic tragedy with black comedy, dramatizing three generations of unfulfilled dreams and leaving not one of its thirteen characters unscathed.
August: Osage Countyhas been produced in more than twenty countries worldwide and is now a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Chris Cooper, Dermot Mulroney, Sam Shepard, Juliette Lewis, and Ewan McGregor.
Tracy Lettsis the author ofKiller Joe,Bug, andMan from Nebraska, which was a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. His plays have been performed throughout the country and internationally. A performer as well as a playwright, Letts is a member of the Steppenwolf Theatre Company, whereAugust: Osage Countypremiered.
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