A rare collection of accounts of incidents and legends throughout the state - intriguing bits of the past generally not found in conventional works of history.
Used in some schools as a teaching aid.
Included in the 26 chapters are descriptions of a crucial battle between Indians and Spaniards in 1759; a place where Swing Low, Sweet Chariot was composed; the wild and woolly past of a town called Navajoe; a whiskey-smuggling scheme that set a train depot on fire; a young man who left the oil fields for Hollywood; a scary light that has haunted a lonely road for years; and where once a strange but lively party took place in a moonlit cemetery.
About the Author: Jim Marion Etter is a retired, award-winning reporter for The Daily Oklahoman whose offbeat, folksy writing about his home state has earned him the reputation as Oklahoma's master country storyteller.
A writer of both fiction and nonfiction, he's the author of five books and a contributing author of four others, and has written for numerous magazines including Persimmon Hill and Western Horsemen.
A native of the small Muskogee County town of Oktaha, he now lives in Oklahoma City.
He's also been a newspaper and television reporter in Laredo, Texas - El Charro Flaco - and has served as a military journalist and translator in Latin America.
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