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Samuel Worcester: The Cherokee Messenger - Podcast

9/16/2023

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Samuel Worcester

Samuel Worcester, The Cherokee Messenger, a humble giant of a man it took two OKLAHOMA GOLD! podcasts to chronicle—and they are both contained in this podcast. The white Presbyterian missionary guided the founding and operation of the first Native publication, the CHEROKEE PHOENIX newspaper. He translated most of the New Testament into Cherokee. He suffered persecution and imprisonment for defending the tribe’s rights all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. And he and his family accompanied them on their Trail of Tears to modern-day Oklahoma, where he served them virtually until the moment of his death.

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for the inspiring saga of the white missionary whose decades-long service to the Cherokees only death could stop. These are the 87th and 88th episodes of our original OKLAHOMA GOLD! radio program and podcast. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible! Go HERE to listen to them all! Future episodes explore more great heroes, events, and movements of Oklahoma History. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible!

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Indian removal map
Southeastern homelands, removal dates and routes, and Western destinations of the Cherokees and other Indian republics who traveled the Trail of Tears.

Cherokee Phoenix Newspaper

The cover of an early CHEROKEE PHOENIX, the first Indigenous American newspaper,

founded in 1828 by white Presbyterian missionary Samuel Worcester. With Worcester’s aid, Cherokee and eventual Indian Territory immigrant Elias Boudinot edited it and translated the Cherokee text into English, the two versions appearing in alternating columns.


Stadium “The Horseshoe”
Presbyterian missionary and pastor Sam Worcester mounted a Herculean assault against the liquor use among the Cherokees and other Natives, stemming from white peddlers, that was ravaging them.

Atwoods Ranch & Home Logo

Many thanks to Atwoods Stores, 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.


Read the full story at Samuel Worcester: The Cherokee Messenger - Podcast,
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The Kick - Podcast

9/2/2023

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Great, even iconic athletic teams, players, and coaches have brought Oklahomans thrills, inspiration, and, yes, heartbreak that run from generation to generation through our family histories just as they do our state history. Here is one of the most legendary chapters of them all—the 1977 OU-Ohio State showdown in The Horseshoe, a titanic contest best remembered simply as “The Kick.”

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for the tale of a legendary game, but also of the revered role that sports and our sports “heroes” play in the hearts of Oklahomans. This is the 85th episode of our original OKLAHOMA GOLD! radio program and podcast. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible! Go HERE to listen to them all! Future episodes explore more great heroes, events, and movements of Oklahoma History. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible!

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The Kick
Uwe von Schamann and perhaps the single most famous play in Oklahoma Sooner football history, at Ohio State in 1977.

Dean Blevins
With the Sooners trailing Ohio State, OU quarterback Dean Blevins leads them downfield on their climactic drive against Ohio State in the game's final seconds.

Stadium “The Horseshoe”
“The Horseshoe”

Sports Illustrated 1977
OU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Sims on the cover of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED the week after the 1977 OU-Ohio State game.

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Many thanks to Atwoods Stores, 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.


Read the full story at “The Kick” - Podcast,
from Oklahoma History, with John Dwyer
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Pat Hurley: Defender of Freedom - Podcast

8/19/2023

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Patrick Hurley cowboyed with Will Rogers, won the Silver Star in WW 1, was U.S. Secretary of War (now Defense), won the Distinguished Flying Cross in WW 2 as he rose to Major General, troubleshot for President Franklin Roosevelt all over the world during that war—though the two were political opposites—and as U.S. Ambassador to China, was America’s greatest defender of the Free Chinese against Mao’s barbaric Reds. The same Free Chinese who now shine the beacon of liberty from…Taiwan.

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for the rip-snorting, action-packed tale of one of the greatest men Oklahoma has ever produced. This is the 82nd episode of our original OKLAHOMA GOLD! radio program and podcast. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible! Go HERE to listen to them all! Future episodes explore more great heroes, events, and movements of Oklahoma History. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible!

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HURLEY & WILL ROGERS
Reunion of two legendary Oklahoman cowboys who rode the range together in Territorial days, after both became famous: “Favorite Son” Will Rogers and U.S. Secretary of War Pat Hurley. Courtesy Oklahoma Publishing Company and Oklahoma Historical Society.

HURLEY – YOUNGER
Patrick J. Hurley, Secretary of War (now Defense) under President Herbert Hoover, the highest-ranking Oklahoma government official to that point in history.

HURLEY & CHIANG KAI-SHEK
Two of Communist China’s greatest Cold War enemies—Republic of China leader Chiang Kai-Shek and Oklahoma native, veteran of two World Wars, and Major General and U.S. Ambassador to China, Pat Hurley. Courtesy Associated Press and Oklahoma Historical Society.

CHINESE FLAGs
The flags of the Republic of China, now the Republic of Taiwan, and the Communist People’s Republic of China, or Red China.

HURLEY – OLDER
Oklahoman Pat Hurley, following World War II and his resignation as Ambassador to China, continued his dauntless efforts to save that nation from Communism. He charged Under Secretary of State Dean Acheson, according to the Associated Press, with “wrecking” policies “approved by the late President Roosevelt, during a hearing before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.” Courtesy Associated Press and Oklahoma Historical Society.

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Many thanks to Atwoods Stores, 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.


Read the full story at Pat Hurley: Defender of Freedom - Podcast,
from Oklahoma History, with John Dwyer
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Walter & Frances Edwards Hospital Home & Hope Builders - Podcast

8/5/2023

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Meet one of Oklahoma's most lionhearted couples, Walter and Frances Edwards. They overcame an inconceivable armada of obstacles, setbacks, and disappointments to build hospitals, homes, and hope for thousands, which no one else would build.

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for the story of a husband and wife who improved life for everyone in Oklahoma City and many beyond, and never stopped practicing their motto of, “If you give your best to life, life will give its best to you!” This is the 86th episode of our original OKLAHOMA GOLD! radio program and podcast. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible! Go HERE to listen to them all! Future episodes explore more great heroes, events, and movements of Oklahoma History. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible!

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JUNK YARD
Walter Edwards with his crew at the Edwards Scrap Iron and Junk Yard in Oklahoma City, which earned him a fortune and sustained him through the 1929 Stock Market Crash and 1930s Great Depression.

HASSMAN HEIGHTS
Hassman Heights in Oklahoma City, the first FHA-insured housing project ever undertaken “by Negroes for Negroes.” Walter and Frances Edwards built 800 bargain priced, top quality homes in this housing addition. When advised by a Federal Housing Administration official, “These houses are worth more than you’re asking,” Walter agreed, but added, “Negroes can’t afford to pay any more.” By the third decade of occupancy, not one of the by-then more than 600 homes had been repossessed for delinquent payments. Courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society.

EDWARDS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
Edwards Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City, the first hospital in the South built, owned, and run by African Americans.

EDWARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
An early edition of the Edwards Elementary School in Oklahoma City, named by the community in honor of Walter and Frances Edwards…

EDWARDS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
…and the modern day version.

Atwoods Ranch & Home Logo

Many thanks to Atwoods Stores, 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.


Read the full story at Walter & Frances Edwards – Hospital, Home & Hope Builders - Podcast,
from Oklahoma History, with John Dwyer
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Charles Haskell Pioneer Governor - Podcast

7/22/2023

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Founding father and first governor Charles Haskell led our big and brawling new Western state with a cocksure confidence that he backed up with action—and he might even have saved it a time or two. In a distant generation, he rises up as one of the great men in Oklahoma history.

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for the story of Oklahoma Founding Father Charles Haskell, who had the rare poise, savvy, and head to navigate a rough-and-tumble Southern Plains territory into a vibrant 20th Century American state. This is the 78th episode of our original OKLAHOMA GOLD! radio program and podcast. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible! Go HERE to listen to them all! Future episodes explore more great heroes, events, and movements of Oklahoma History. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible!

https://youtu.be/_meg3H5QxYU
Charles Haskell, first governor of Oklahoma.
Charles Haskell, first governor of Oklahoma.

Statehood barbeque
First Oklahoma Governor Charles Haskell at the colossal statehood barbecue he organized.

Bank lobby

The Columbia Bank and Trust in Oklahoma City, the state’s largest financial institution at the time of its 1909 failure. Haskell’s bold, daring leadership and the Bank Deposit Guaranty Law he spearheaded prevented Columbia’s collapse from dragging Oklahoma into a disastrous economic depression like New York and others had recently experienced.


Charles Haskell Cartoon
Merle DeLeon’s drawing from Foster’s Comic History of Oklahoma by C. D. Foster. If not historically precise, it splendidly captures the swashbuckling—and surreptitious—nature of the Charles Haskell Administration’s 1910 “transfer” of the state capital from Guthrie to Oklahoma City.

Atwoods Ranch & Home Logo

Many thanks to Atwoods Stores, 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.


Read the full story at Charles Haskell – Pioneer Governor - Podcast,
from Oklahoma History, with John Dwyer
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Karen Silkwoods Haunting Legacy - Podcast

7/1/2023

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One of the darkest, most enduring mysteries of Oklahoma History, the controversial life…and death…of Karen Silkwood.

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for the story of Oklahoma’s iconic Kerr McGee, nuclear power intrigue and contamination, and a tiny, troubled woman who lived, and died, trying to protect her fellow workers. It is the 83rd episode of our original OKLAHOMA GOLD! radio program and podcast. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible! Go HERE to listen to them all! Future episodes explore more great heroes, events, and movements of Oklahoma History. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible!

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Karen Silkwood
Karen Silkwood, whose 1974 death while she fought to protect her fellow workers in a Logan County nuclear production facility remains a controversial mystery.

Karen Silkwood Car Crash
Perhaps the most famous wrecked car in Oklahoma history—Karen Silkwood’s, November 1974. Photo Associated Press.CourtesyOklahoma Publishing Co. and Oklahoma Historical Society.

Oklahoma City attorney Jim Ikard and Bill Silkwood
Oklahoma City attorney Jim Ikard and Bill Silkwood continue their decade-long quest for justice for Silkwood’s daughter Karen. Photo Paul Southerland. Courtesy Oklahoma Publishing Co. and Oklahoma Historical Society.

Atwoods Ranch & Home Logo

Many thanks to Atwoods Stores, 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.


Read the full story at Karen Silkwood’s Haunting Legacy - Podcast,
from Oklahoma History, with John Dwyer
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Luther Bishop Legendary Lawman - Podcast

6/17/2023

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No Oklahoma lawman ever put greater fear into the hearts of our most notorious outlaws, more courageously defended the terrorized Osages during the Osage Reign of Terror, or had his life end in greater mystery—and violence—than the legendary Luther Bishop. You’ll never forget his story.

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for a story of Oklahoma courage, and what doing right and defending the weak can sometimes cost. It is the 78th episode of our original 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. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible!

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LUTHER BISHOP

LUTHER BISHOP & LIQUOR BUST
Oklahoma lawman Luther Bishop, right, and one of the many illegal liquor supplies that he—and the semi-automatic pistols he packed on both hips—captured.

DESTROYED OSAGE HOME
The demolished home of Osage petroleum headrights’ owners Bill and Ruth Smith, whom a dynamite blast murdered, along with their white housekeeper Nettie Brookshire, during the Osage Reign of Terror. (Courtesy Bartlesville Area Historical Museum.)

TOM WHITE
Former Texas Ranger Tom White, head of the courageous undercover team of lawmen who took on a vicious and terrifying murder conspiracy that victimized oil rich Osage Indians. According to White, no lawman in the years-long pursuit of the Osage killers was more valuable than Oklahoma Crime Bureau Special Agent Luther Bishop.

Atwoods Ranch & Home Logo

Many thanks to Atwoods Stores, 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.


Read the full story at Luther Bishop – Legendary Lawman - Podcast,
from Oklahoma History, with John Dwyer
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Pearl Carter Scott Girl Stunt Flyer - Podcast

5/28/2023

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She chauffeured her blind father at age 11, became America’s youngest aviator at 13 after Wiley Post taught her, a famous barnstorming stunt flyer soon after that, then gave it all up to be a wife and mom. Later, the Marlow native traveled the Chickasaw Nation helping the needy and forgotten, and helped lead the tribe.

Join John and KTOK/iHeartRadio star Gwin Faulconer-Lippert for the exhilarating tale of the half-Chickasaw Oklahoman whose life motto, “Never give up!” lifted her to the heights of aerial glory and the historic lengths of sacrificial heroism for her people. It is the 76th episode of our original OKLAHOMA GOLD! radio program and podcast. Thank you Atwoods Stores for making it possible! Go HERE to listen to them all! Future episodes explore more great heroes, events, and movements of Oklahoma History.

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PEARL CARTER SCOTT

PEARL AND HER PARENTS
Teenaged Pearl Carter (center) with her half Chickasaw-half Choctaw mother Lucy; her white father, entrepreneur George Carter, Sr.; and Pearl’s red Curtiss Robin airplane. The circa 1931 scene depicts the Marlow pasture that George converted into an “airport” for Pearl. Courtesy Pearl Scott Collection, Chickasaw Nation Archives.

ELDERLY PEARL
Pearl Carter Scott, honored by the Chickasaw nation.

PEARL MOVIE POSTER
Poster from the 2010 motion picture Pearl Website: http://www.pearlthemovie.net

Atwoods Ranch & Home Logo

Many thanks to Atwoods Stores, 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.


Read the full story at Pearl Carter Scott – Girl Stunt Flyer - Podcast,
from Oklahoma History, with John Dwyer
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Mother Becker and the Comanches (1878-1938)

5/24/2023

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Mother Becker and the Comanches (1878-1938) - It was the most unlikely of combinations. The Bible Belt’s lone remaining denominational bearer of the Prince of Peace’s message of non-violence—and the most…

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The Oklahomans

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Read the entire Oklahoma story in John J. Dwyer's Media

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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Oklahoma Governors: Martin E. Trapp (1923-1927)

5/23/2023

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Oklahoma Governors: Martin E. Trapp (1923-1927) - When Martin Trapp’s father staked a claim a few miles west of Guthrie in the Land Run of 1889, his twelve-year-old, Kansas-born son came with him as an Oklahoma…

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The Oklahomans

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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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    Author John Dwyer takes us on a voyage through time, to discover Oklahoma is ways we've never fully understood.

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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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