He began publishing short stories in 1967, while still working as a cowboy and ranch manager in Texas and Oklahoma. Hank and Drover are both dogs he'd worked with at the ranch. In 1982, after receiving numerous rejection slips from large publishers, Erickson borrowed $2,000 and began his...
In addition, eight Senators and 43 representatives did not request any earmarks for fiscal year 2010. Among these are several Republican Congress members who are among the most outspoken proponents of earmark reform, like DeMint and Boehner, as well ...
Why are so many Republicans retiring? Some of the retiring GOP lawmakers have served in Congress for several decades: Rep. Sam Johnson, R-Texas, who first joined the House in 1991; Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, R-Florida, who first arrived at Capitol Hill in 1989; Rep. John Duncan, R-Tenn...
An 11th-round pick out of Oklahoma State in 2021 after having Tommy John surgery two months before the Draft, Wrobleski features a 93-96 mph fastball with run and carry, impressive feel for a solid mid-80s slider and a reliable changeup. He's carving up Double-A hitters with a 3.06 E...
After the whites accused Laura Nelson of killing a white deputy In Oklahoma, they raped this Black woman, tied her to a bridge trestle and for good measure, They lynched her son from a telephone pole. Had the white community reacted in horror after viewing the dangling corpses of Laura ...
The town of Gore, Oklahoma, is named for him. See also congressional biography— Govtrack.us page— NNDB dossier— Find-A-Grave memorial Image source: Library of Congress James Henry Higgins (1876-1927)— also known as James H. Higgins; "Boy Mayor of Pawtucket"— of Pawtucket, Providence...
Arguably college baseball’s most prolific slugger, Incaviglia ultimately became known more for an MLB rule named after him than for his performance as a professional. The Expos picked him eighth overall in 1985 -- after he hit an NCAA-record 48 homers that year at Oklahoma State -- but In...
These feats of courage, dedication and generosity demonstrated by local radio and TV broadcasters are captured in this short film produced by Media Arts Professor Scott Hodgson and his students at the University of Oklahoma, and Chandra Clark, professor of Journalism and Creative Media, and her stu...
Warren was born in 1949 and raised in Oklahoma, where her father worked as a janitor and her mother took a minimum wage job at Sears. She has described growing up "in a paycheck-to-paycheck family" that lived "on the ragged edge of the middle class." Warren first married at age 19 ...
That is not to say that New York ever stopped being “home” to him. During my childhood, my parents would take us on alternating summer vacations; one year we would drive to New York and visit with my father’s family, and the next year we would drive to Oklahoma City for the Overt...