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The Oklahoma Petroleum Industry

Business & Money

Franks, Kenny Arthur

Economics

University of Oklahoma Press

Citizen Soldiers: Oklahoma's National Guard

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

PREFACE AND INTRODUCTION Spread over a decade and a half between 1962 and 1977, the court case involving the desegregation of the Oklahoma City Public School System is long and complicated. Instead of a definative discourse on the matter, this work is devoted to an examination of the various court orders issued by Judge Luther Bohanon, their treatment by the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the final decisions of the United States Supreme Court. While some background information detailing the history of segregation in Oklahoma has been included, likewise this book is not an in depth examination of the statewide desegregation issue. It does how- ever shed light on the existing mores of the time which allowed a segregated school system to be created in Oklahoma City. One thing is absolutely clear: the Supreme Court of the United States and the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld Judge Bo- hanon's actions in every instance except one minor aspect of the contempt citation issued against Raymond and Yvonne York. This fact is further underscored by the action of Chief Judge Alfred P. Murrah of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals, who, after the Supreme Courts action, wrote Judge Bohanon and declared "You were right and we were wrong-may justice always prevail!" Even so it was not a popular cause, and Judge Bohanon was the object of a tremendous amount of verbal abuse, which sometimes took the aspect of direct threats and on one occasion resulted in his being hanged in effigy.

The legacy of Dean Julien C. Monnet: Judge Luther Bohanon and the desegregation of Oklahoma City's public schools

Western Heritage Books

Within a 22-mile swath across Carter County, one of the nation's greatest oil discoveries was made - the Greater Healdton-Hewitt Field. Encompassing some of the richest oil-producing land in America, Healdton and Hewitt, discovered in 1913 and 1919 respectively, produced an astounding 320,753,000 barrels of crude by the close of the first half of the 20th century.

Ragtown: A History of the Greater Healdton-Hewitt Oil Field

Reference

Oklahoma Heritage Book Center

American Jurist: The Life of Judge Alfred P. Murrah (Oklahoma Trackmaker Series)

Oklahoma Heritage Association

For more than three decades Stand Watie was a controversial figure in Cherokee history. Not educated for the task, he was thrust to the forefront of Cherokee history after the brutal murders of the leaders of the Ridge-Waite-Boudinot faction. Thereafter he was locked in a lifelong struggle with John Ross, the leader of the other principle faction of the Cherokees. During the Civil War he became the only Indian general on either side of the conflict, a role that brought great hardships to him and his family. Time and again he demonstrated his genius, never wavering from what he saw as his duty until his death in 1871

Stand Watie and the Agony of the Cherokee Nation

History

Americas

Memphis State Univ Pr

History of oil discovery and production in Oklahoma, well illustrated in oversized book.

Early Oklahoma Oil: A Photographic History, 1859-1936 (MONTAGUE HISTORY OF OIL SERIES)

Industries

Texas A & M Univ Pr

The oil and gas industry in Louisiana and Arkansas has played as great a role in the shaping of the destinies of those two states as any other factor. Here, in 325 contemporary photographs, many of them never before published, is an eyewitness record of the early years of that industry. The rich oil legacy of the region had been noticed centuries ago when the area's Indians used natural soil seeps as sources of medicinal oil for themselves and their animals. Non-Indians became aware of the presence of crude in the early 1800's and by 1860 several petroleum-rich sites had been located in Louisiana. In 1901, W. Scott Heywood's discovery of the huge Jennings Oil Field thrust Louisiana to the forefront in American oil production. Other discoveries in Louisiana followed rapidly: Caddo Lake, Homer, Cotton Valley, the tremendous Monroe Gas field, and many smaller pools contributed their share to the great flood of oil and gas from the state. Eventually the search for crude crossed the state boundary into southern Arkansas, and a new boom began there in the 1920's. Though a small portion of that state was involved with the industry, the volume of oil from El Dorado, Smackover, and other fields in the surrounding southwestern counties brought Arkansas, too into the upper ranks of oil producers. The giant trim-state Rodessa Field shared by Louisiana, Arkansas, and Texas, continued the initial boom, but just as production began to slow, technological innovations opened entirely new horizons among the coastal salt domes and offshore, and the rush for black gold began anew.

Early Louisiana and Arkansas Oil: A Photographic History, 1901-1946 (MONTAGUE HISTORY OF OIL SERIES)

Lambert, Paul F.

Book by Franks, Kenny Arthur, Lambert, Paul F.

Early California Oil: A Photographic History, 1865-1940 (Montague History of Oil Series, Number Four)

Texas A&M University Press

In light of the importance of oil and gas in California, perhaps the discovery of gold there should be viewed as just a flash in the pan. By 1938, the cumulative value of all the gold found in the state stood at something more than two billion dollars, while the cumulative value of the oil and gas produced was more than double that sum—well over five billion dollars. The story of California oil deserves to be told, and pictures tell it best. The more than three hundred photographs in this book vividly portray the development of California’s rich and colorful petroleum industry from the early exploration of the mid-nineteenth century through the boom years of the first four decades of the twentieth. Although Indians and Spanish explorers had known of and used local oil seepages for centuries and the search for commercial production had begun on several fronts in the 1850s, the actual birth date of California’s oil industry may be set as 1865, with the first commercial sale of oil refined in the state (by the Stanford brothers) from a well drilled in the state (on the Matthole River in Humboldt County). The fascinating text and the impressive array of photographs here assembled reveal the variety and vigor of the development that ensued: from the “world’s smallest producing lease,” on Signal Hill, to the derricks sharing Huntington Beach with the bathers, to the millions of mice infesting the Taft oil field in 1926–27; from the mounted patrols keeping livestock out of the Coalinga fields to the blinking light on a fence warning motorists of a well in the middle of a Los Angeles street. First among the states in oil production in eighteen of the first thirty years of the twentieth century, California experienced a boom of immense proportions and extraordinary diversity. These illustrations, along with contemporary descriptions by many of those who worked the fields and a wealth of detail provided by the authors, graphically portray the scenes and characters of California’s second great mineral rush. An epilogue takes the boom up to the present, highlighting the shift in production to the offshore leases and the controversy surrounding them.

Early California Oil: A Photographic History, 1865-1940 (Kenneth E. Montague Series in Oil and Business History (Paperback))

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