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The French..

7/31/2022

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The French 

Meanwhile, by the late 1600s, France rivaled Spain in the mercantilist sweepstakes. Voyages down the Mississippi River from French bases in Canada by explorers such as Joliet, Marquette, and La Salle, and subsequent French claims to the vast lands drained from the west by the Mississippi,which they dubbed Louisiana (and which included all of present-day Oklahoma except the Panhandle) in honor of their dictatorial monarch, Louis XIV-helped establish this enhanced French power. From the 1718 founding of New Orleans at the mouth of the Mississippi into the Gulf of Mexico, French traders and explorers flocked northwest through Oklahoma rivers in search of furs.

The French posed a grave threat to Spanish hegemony over present-day Oklahoma and, indeed, the entire western Mississippi River Valley. Their men proved to be active and vigorous travelers along rivers such as the Arkansas, Red, Canadian, Grand, and Verdigris. They formed alliances with influential Indian tribes such as the Comanches in the Southern Plains and the Wichitas in eastern Oklahoma, and in fact did not hesitate to intermarry with Indian girls. They also traded

a galaxy of items to the Indians, including clothing, tools, and trinkets, and-unlike the Spanish-weapons, ammunition, and whiskey.

Gradually, the French parlayed these practices into a loose control over most of present-day Oklahoma and the western Mississippi watershed. This ended, temporarily, in 1763, as England defeated the combined forces of Spain and France in the sprawling mercantilist Seven Years War, whose North American theater gained the name of the French and Indian War. That vast conflict exhausted all of its participants, including the English, who demanded the ceding of Florida by Spain.


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The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.
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Coronados Trek

7/30/2022

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Coronado’s Trek

While other maps depicting Coronado’s journey differ, the one above is probably the most accurate. It places key sections of the conquistadors’ trek in present-day Oklahoma. According to historians Herbert Belton and Edwin C. McReynolds, they traveled up the future 98th Meridian/Chisholm Trail/U.S. Highway 81 the length of the state near modern-day Duncan, Chickasha, El Reno, Kingfisher, and Enid. A 1907 Temple newspaper reported the unearthing in that area of an apparent Spanish headstone that dated back to 1542.

They later rode across the Panhandle and northwest section of present-day Oklahoma near the modern communities of Tyrone, Optima, Hooker, Guymon, Goodwell, and Texhoma.

They traveled amongst mesquite, cactus, and other bushes in present-day Oklahoma. Turkeys, prairie dogs, jackrabbits, antelope, deer, and wild hogs roamed the land, over the blue grass and buffalo grass that covers the Southern American Great Plains because taller grasses and their greater root system cannot endure those scalding parched climes.

The intrepid Coronado indeed found “Quivera" — such as it was. He considered it the best land he found in the present-day Southwest U.S.: “well settled…


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Cherokee Romeo & Puritan Juliet Podcast

7/30/2022

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Our epic new OKLAHOMA GOLD! podcast introduces you to two of Oklahoma’s greatest heroes and founding “grandparents,” the Cherokee Romeo and Puritan Juliet, Elias Boudinot and Harriett Gold. He barely saw Oklahoma and she never did, yet their mark on us endures today, not least through the towering love they shared that overcame dangerous and powerful obstacles.

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for a story of love, loss, and unvanquishable faith. It’s the 52nd original episode of our weekly OKLAHOMA GOLD! radio program and podcast. Go HERE to listen to them all! Future episodes explore more great heroes, events, and movements of Oklahoma History.

https://youtu.be/IX8OqHVwF7M
Elias Boudinot

The mighty Elias Boudinot. His legacy, co-crafted by his first wife Harriett Ruggles Gold, the great love of his life, demonstrates how in the long view of history, one person, though imperfect and fraught with conflict, did and can shape the destiny of Oklahoma for the better in a comprehensive fashion affecting every part of an individual’s and a people’s life.


HARRIETT GOLD

Harriett Gold. “We have vowed, and our vows are heard in heaven,” she declared. “Color is nothing to me; his soul is as white as mine; he is a Christian, and ever since I embraced religion I have been praying that God would open a door for me to be a missionary, and this is the way.” Though she never set foot in Oklahoma, her stainless Christian testimony and the deeds of her surviving family members helped shape the state even into the 21st Century.


To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters

To Marry an Indian: The Marriage of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot in Letters, 1823-1839, edited by Theresa Strouth. It contains the letters of Harriett Gold and Elias Boudinot during their dramatic interracial courtship.


ELIAS C. BOUDINOT

Son of Elias and Harriet Gold Boudinot, who became a leader among the Cherokees, a soldier and their delegate to the Confederate Congress during the War Between the States, and the pioneer whose eloquent voice birthed the nationwide Boomer movement that led to Oklahoma statehood.


Many thanks to Atwoods Ranch and Home, a farm and ranch supply company based in Enid, Oklahoma, for their support of the Red River Institute of History and OKLAHOMA GOLD! Please support them as you are able! Wherever you are, you can order online from thousands of quality products on their terrific website HERE. Atwoods also has 66 stores in 5 states: Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, and Texas. In addition to farm and ranch supplies, Atwoods stores sell clothing, lawn and garden items, tools, hardware, automotive supplies, sporting goods, pet supplies, firearms, and seasonal items.


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Coronados Conquistadors

7/29/2022

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Coronado’s Conquistadors 

Coronado led 336 conquistadors-rugged Spanish adventurers, explorers, and warriors-and a few hundred Indian allies across the American Southwest. Displaying the cool vision and leadership that motivated wealthy men to financially back his expedition and other men to follow him through danger, suffering, and battle, he constantly assessed the unfamiliar terrain of present-day northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S., deploying groups of men at strategic points for communication, reconnaissance, and mutual protection, based on their individual capabilities. He staggered their movements, waiting to advance one company until the natural resources consumed by the previous one had time to replenish themselves.

The conquistadors defeated the Zuni and Pueblo Indians in bloody battles, during one of which Coronado fell wounded and nearly perished.

They endured broiling desert temperatures, freezing mountains, dangerous animals, hunger, and thirst.

Coronado’s Expedition through Northwest Oklahoma, by G. N. Taylor. Coronado’s expedition of conquistadors included several hundred Indians and a captured Native guide called “The Turk.” The ever-present Catholic priest accompanies Coronado in his search for the Seven Cities of Cibola. (www.gntayloroklaart.com)


Read the entire Oklahoma story in John J. Dwyer’s
The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.
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The Spaniards The first three centuries of Western civilization...

7/28/2022

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The Spaniards 

The first three centuries of Western civilization contact with Oklahoma came in the historical context of the mercantilist rivalry between the world’s great powers, at that time all European. Predicated on the assumption of a limited amount of resources in the world, represented by a nation’s stock of bullion (gold and silver), mercantilist powers such as England, Spain, France, and the Netherlands believed that to obtain a larger slice of this finite “pie" one nation must wrest it from another. This could be accomplished by favorable trading activities-exporting a greater amount than one imports - or by success in war and the subsequent treaties, which could deliver additional resources from one country to another. Thus unfolded a crucial plank of mercantilist thought-possessing as many colonies as possible in order to mine the raw materials from them, ship those to the mother country, produce finished products from the imports, and then ship those back to the colony and other countries for sale.

Mercantilism stands at variance with the American founders’ consensus economic notions of laissez faire, or free trade. The famed Scotsman Adam Smith systematized the latter philosophy in his landmark 1776 work The Wealth of Nations. Laissez faire, in contrast to mercantilism, argues against restrictive tariffs toward other nations, the always selective governmental subsidization of industry with citizens’ tax revenues, and the federal financing of internal improvements (infrastructure) to any extent beyond what is necessary.

Laissez faire also supports limited government involvement in every area of life, particularly economic matters; low tariffs to stimulate trade between cities, states, and countries; and the notion of an ever-expanding economic pie, rather than a static one. It anticipates vigorous economic competition taking place alongside mutually beneficial results with no specter of serious international tension due to the “win-win” rather than the mercantilist “dog-eat-dog” process between individuals, companies, and nations alike.

Discovery and Exploration 1541–1820, the first of Miami, Oklahoma artist Charles Banks Wilson’s epic cycle of four 13 x 27 foot murals that adorn the Oklahoma State Capitol. It depicts famed Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado atop his armored horse in the present-day Oklahoma Panhandle, amidst the Catholic missionaries who accompanied him, Wichita Indians, buffalo, and the Antelope Hills, a key landmark for travelers. (Courtesy Charles Banks Wilson and the Oklahoma State Senate Historical Preservation Fund, Inc., Photo John Jernigan)


Read the entire Oklahoma story in John J. Dwyer’s
The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.
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Chief Clermont of the Osages (?-1828)

7/27/2022

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Chief Clermont of the Osages (?-1828) - This chief of one of the most powerful Indigenous tribes ever to thunder across Oklahoma casts a legacy of enduring fascination and mystery. Gathering at least…

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First Settlers Extant remains multiply during the Mound Builders...

7/27/2022

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First Settlers

Extant remains multiply during the Mound Builders Epoch, which covered the period roughly from AD 500 to 1350. Manmade mounds across the eastern portion of the state mark this period. Descendants of the Caddoan-language family of tribes who likely emigrated west from the Mississippi River Valley area constructed them after settling in the area. These non-nomadic early Oklahomans used them for a variety of purposes, including religious temples, burial shelters, and homes-the latter designed for protection against flooding.

The Spiro Age, roughly AD 900 to 1450, was the “Golden Age” of the state’s pre-recorded history period. Leading Oklahoma historian Bob Blackburn says that though Spiro never had a population of more than five thousand people and was not an economic power, it was the spiritual/religious center of the ancient Southern Mississippian Empire. A manmade hill designed as a burial temple and discovered in the 1930s near the Poteau River valley town of the same name in eastern Oklahoma provides rich insight into the Oklahomans of this period. Featuring a rot-resistant cedar structure and millions of tons of moved earth, the artifacts contained in the Spiro Mound reveal the history of its people, which included artisan and priestly classes.


Read the entire Oklahoma story in John J. Dwyer’s
The Oklahomans
volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.
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The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
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The Day the People Turned Against Jack Walton

7/26/2022

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The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.
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We Are A Happy People

7/26/2022

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We Were a Happy People

Tribes who lost their land and sovereignty left eloquent testaments to their trials. An 1895 Cherokee delegation to the federal government in Washington, D.C.… Read the full story at John Dwyer’s “The Oklahomans”.


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The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People
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Oklahoma Governors 1931-1935: William Henry David Alfalfa Bill Murray (1869-1956)

7/26/2022

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Toadsuck, Texas native William Henry “Alfalfa Bill” Murray provides lasting evidence that a roughhewn frontier country known as Oklahoma once existed. Murray…

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      Novelist and Oklahoma native Ralph Ellison said, "You have to leave home to find home", an apt description of the journey of John Dwyer, author and general editor of The Oklahomans. The Dwyer family roots were firmly transplanted from Ireland to Oklahoma by John's great-grandfather and grandfather, the latter who settled in Oklahoma City in 1909, just two years after Oklahoma achieved statehood. Although born in Dallas, TX, John was relocated to Oklahoma when his widowed mother returned to her home when he was two years old.
      It would be on Oklahoma soil that his mother instilled in him his love for history, and coupled with his unusually creative imagination, it soon became apparent that John not only liked to hear great stories of legend and history, but to make up his own as well. It would be out of a sense of divine purpose that he would use that creativity in response to a higher calling in the years to come.
      John began a career in journalism during his high school days when he served in a variety of roles, including news and sports reporter, for the Duncan Banner, a daily newspaper in his small Oklahoma hometown. He was the youngest sports editor in the newspaper's history by the time he attended the University of Oklahoma on a journalism scholarship. He graduated in 1978 with a bachelor of arts and sciences degree in journalism.
      Dwyer further developed his journalistic skills in radio as a play‐by‐play football and basketball announcer for several radio stations. He won the coveted position of sports director for the University of Oklahoma's 100,000 watt KGOU‐FM radio station. For seven years, he provided live, on‐air reports to America's largest radio networks of University of Oklahoma college football games.
      Except for a year in England during 6th grade, John lived in the Sooner State for 28 years before returning to Dallas in 1986 to attend Dallas Theological Seminary where he earned his Master of Biblical Studies. While there, Dwyer worked part time on the sports staff of The Dallas Times Herald, which at the time owned one of the five largest circulations of any daily newspaper in Texas. It was in Texas that he also met and married his wife Grace in 1988 and settled down to start his family.
      In the spring of 1992, Dwyer and his wife founded the Dallas‐Fort Worth Heritage newspaper, which would grow to a circulation of 50,000 per month at the time of its sale, after nearly a decade, to new owners. The Heritage pioneered innovative features such as full color photography and graphics, an expansive web site, a cluster of informative daily radio programs, and an aggressive, uncompromising brand of investigative news reporting unprecedented for contemporary news publications holding an
    orthodox Christian worldview.
      In 2006, at the urging of his family and the Oklahoma Historical Society, John returned to Oklahoma to tackle the colossal task of writing "The Oklahomans," which was endorsed as an official project of the Oklahoma Centennial Commission. He has completed volume 1 (Ancient‐Statehood) and a portion of volume 2 (Statehood‐Present), which releases in November 2018.
      He is now an Adjunct Professor of History and Ethics at Southern Nazarene University. He is former history chair at Coram Deo Academy, near Dallas, Texas. His books include the non‐fiction historical narrative "The War Between the States: America's Uncivil War" (Western Conservatory), the novel "When the Bluebonnets Come" (Bluebonnet Press), the historical novels "Stonewall" and "Robert E. Lee" (Broadman & Holman Publishers), and the upcoming historical novels "Shortgrass" and "Mustang" (Oghma Creative Media).
      John and Grace have one daughter and one grandson and live in Norman, Oklahoma. They are members of the First Baptist  Church of Norman, where they serve in a variety of teaching, mission, and other ministry roles.

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