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Oklahoma Land Race
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The Oklahoma Land Race or the Cherokee Strip Land Run was a land run or land rush that took place on September 16, 1893.

The land concerned was a 58 mile (93 km) wide strip running for 225 miles (362 km) between southern Kansas and Oklahoma Territory, around 34,000 km². The Oklahoma Territory had been opened for settlement in the 1880s but the strip remained the possession of the Cherokee people. The strip, named the Cherokee Outlet, had been granted to them in 1828 as a route to the Indian Territories, other tribes took parts of the strip from the 1860s. After the Civil War a number of cattle trails, including the Chisholm Trail, were driven across the strip, linking Texas to the demanding eastern markets. In the 1880s the Strip itself was leased to a cattle farming association.

Widespread greed for the land led to a law banning cattle farming, the Cherokee then sold the land to the government, opening it up for homesteaders. The strip was divided into 42,000 claims, available to the first person, with a certificate, to put foot and stake a claim in them.


Building up to the date of September 16, potential settlers began arriving on all four borders of the territory, especially the 165 mile (266 km) long Kansas border. Around 100,000 people had gathered, up to 30,000 of them around Arkansas City. Most of the people were on horseback although there were also wagons, carts and special train services.

The borders were guarded by U.S. soldiers up to noon when the race was begun. Over the next few hours people raced recklessly across the land to secure the prime claims, crash or be disappointed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_Land_Race


16.Oklahoma
Eller:
They couldn't pick a better time as that in life

Andrew:
It ain't too early and it ain't too late

Laurey:
Startin' as a farmer with a brand new wife

Curly:
Soon'll be livin' in a brand new state

Company:
Brand new state!
Brand new state, gonna treat you great!
Gonna give you barley, carrots and pertaters,
Pasture fer the cattle,
Spinach and termayters!
Flowers on the prarie where the June bugs zoom,
Plen'y of air and plen'y of room,
Plen'y of room to swing a rope!
Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope.

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma, Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin' lazy circles in the sky.

We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma, Ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk
Makin' lazy circles in the sky.

We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.

Okla-okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla
Okla-okla-Okla-Okla-Okla-Okla...

We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! Ayipioeeay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma!
Oklahoma O.K.
L - A - H - O - M - A
OKLAHOMA!
Yeeow!

Lauren Bacall
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Lauren Bacall (born 16 September 1924) is a Jewish American film and stage actress. She is also a former fashion model. Known for her comedic skills and husky voice, as well as her sultry looks, she became a fashion icon and role model for modern-day women early in her career. Also known for her marriage to, and movies with, husband Humphrey Bogart. She is also a cousin of Shimon Peres, former Prime Minister of Israel.
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Lauren Bacall


Life and career


Early stages

Born in New York City as Betty Joan Perske, the only child of Jewish immigrants from Poland and Romania. Her parents got divorced when she was six years old, and she would not see her father. She would develop a very strong relationship with her mother. Her mother moved with her to California when she moved to film from Broadway.

Bacall first studied dance, something she did for thirteen years, and had a dream of dancing with Fred Astaire, something she never got to do. She then studied acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, with Kirk Douglas. She had a crush on Douglas, who was 24 and eight years older than her 16 at the time, and although he wanted to, "teach me everything he knew about 'sex'," she was scared and rejected his advances. During this time she became a theater usher to earn money, and watch the performances.

She made her acting debut, as Betty Bacall, on Broadway in 1942, in Johnny Two by Four. Her stage surname is derived from her mother's Romanian maiden name (Bacal). Her idol was Bette Davis, she wanted to be the Bette Davis of theater.

She started modeling part-time to pay the bills. While modeling in the garment center one day, the models started talking about religion, and when they asked her what she "was", and she told them that she was Jewish, she felt that they acted differently toward her. Later, when she first went to Hollywood, she noticed that director Howard Hawks would make off-color remarks about Jews. This made her nervous, and she did not let Hawks know at the time that she was Jewish, something that she says she has come to regret in the many years since.

A career on the stage was Bacall´s life's dream. However, Hawks' wife was reading the magazine Harper's Bazaar that featured Bacall on the cover. Mrs. Hawks, Slim (the nickname of the character in To Have and Have Not), showed the photo to her husband and he made a phone call to New York to bring her to Hollywood for a screen test.


The breakthrough

Hawks gave her several screen tests, taught her to speak in a lower tone, and not liking the name Betty, gave the first name of 'Lauren'. She was so scared in front of the camera that Hawks had her drop her head a little and pull her hair over one side of her face. This caused her to look with her eyes, something that would be called "The Look", and become a sensual trademark.

She met Humphrey Bogart on the set of her first movie, To Have and Have Not (1944). After three of four weeks their feelings for each other started to change, the first time she knew that Bogart was interested in her was when he came into her dressing room at the end of the day's shooting and said, "goodnight", she said, "goodnight" back, he then lifted her chin and kissed her. This was something he had never done before, and it startled her. After that, despite a 25-year difference in age, she could not stop thinking about him, but he was married to Mayo Methot. Confused, she confided in her mother, who wanted her to stay away from him, but she started seeing him off the set. Bogart wanted a wife first, not an actress first, and she was willing to alter her career to spend time with him.

She insisted that Hal Wallis check out Kirk Douglas while he was in New York. Douglas had a small part in a Broadway play. Wallis liked what he saw and brought him to Hollywood, the result was that Dougals made his film debut in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946; opposite Barbara Stanwyck).

A 20-year old Bacall made worldwide headlines, and created a sensation, when on a visit to the National Press Club in Washington D.C. (10 February 1945) her press agent (Charlie Enfield, chief of publicity at Warner Brothers), had her sit on a piano, one that the Vice-President of the United States, Harry S. Truman, happened to be playing. The photos of the incident [1] caused somewhat of a scandal with the prim-and-proper, and even Truman's wife, Bess, was upset about it. Bacall says that she still gets postcards photos of the event to this day.

After To Have and Have Not, she also appeared with Bogart in The Big Sleep (1946), Dark Passage (1947), and Key Largo (1948). If you watch the love scenes in "To Have and Have Not" and "The Big Sleep" you can really see the romance blossoming.


The Fifties to The Eighties

On May 21, 1945, Bacall married Humphrey Bogart, with their wedding and honeymoon in Mansfield, Ohio, at Malabar Farm (the country home of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Bromfield, who was a close friend of Bogart). At the time of their marriage, Bacall was 20 and Bogart was 45. Bogart called Bacall "Baby". They remained married until Bogart's death from cancer in 1957. Katharine Hepburn and Bacall, as well as Spencer Tracy and Bogart, became great friends after the filming in 1951 of The African Queen (with Bogart and Hepburn). She became great friends with Arthur Schlesinger and Alistair Cooke in 1952, and gave campaign speeches for Adlai Stevenson. She also had a "school-girl" crush on Stevenson, something Bogart let her indulge in because of her age.

After Bogart's death, Bacall had an affair with singer and actor Frank Sinatra who "wanted to take care of her," but she knew that he was a womanizer and would never be faithful to her. She told Robert Osborne of Turner Classic Movies (TCM) in an interview, that because of this, she ended the romance, but in her book she writes that after Sinatra proposed, and later when the press released the story, he got mad at her and "dropped the curtain", cutting her off completely, and went to Las Vegas.

She was later married to the actor Jason Robards from 1961 until their divorce in 1969, because of his addiction to alcohol. She is the mother of two sons, news producer, documentary film maker, and author Stephen Bogart and actor Sam Robards, and one daughter, Leslie Bogart, who became a nurse and yoga therapist.

Bacall was known to eagerly turn down scripts she didn´t find interesting. This was rarely heard of for a young female film star and got her a reputation among studio executives that she was difficult to deal with. She kept, however, getting favorable reviews for her leads in a string of future classics such as 1950´s Young Man with a Horn, co-starring Doris Day and Kirk Douglas, and 1953 How to Marry a Millionaire, in which she was teamed up with Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable, as well as Written on the Wind in 1956, a now legendary tearjerker directed by Douglas Sirk.

In 1955, she co-starred with John Wayne in Blood Alley. She would also co-star with Wayne in his last picture, The Shootist, in 1976. Like Bogart, Wayne was dying of cancer when he made his last film, and Bacall saw the signs and the parallels. In Blood Alley she was "terrified of him", but, now it was different. She found that she was very attracted to him, albeit platonically, even though she had a hard time understanding why. Wayne was about as far to the right, politically as staunchly conservative, as one could get, while she was over on the far left, a liberal. Although political polar opposites, still there was a common ground, and a common attraction. Wayne, like Bogart, also loved being out on his yacht, being on the sea, every chance he could get.

In the Sixties, Bacall´s movie career somewhat waned and she was only seen in a handful of rather insignificant films. Her saving grace, however, was Broadway, which she took over in the latter part of the Fifties. She soon became a celebrated stage diva, the toast of New York City.

Her Broadway roles have included Goodbye, Charlie in 1959, Cactus Flower in 1965, Applause in 1970 and Woman of the Year in 1981, for which she won a Tony Award. She also won a Tony Award for her stage breakthrough, the portrayal of "Margo Channing" in the musical Applause (a musical version of the classic movie All About Eve).


Later stages

In 1980 she was living in The Dakota, a building of townhouses in New York City. She was in her bedroom on the night of 8 December, with her dog (she always has a dog, now it is Sophie), and she heard what she thought was a car exhaust backfire. She looked out the window and saw nothing. A few minutes later when she turned on the 11:00 p.m. news she learned that her friend and neighbor John Lennon had been shot and killed.

She was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Academy Award for her role in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996). She received the Kennedy Center Honors in 1997. Since then, her movie career has seen a new renaissance and she has given strong performances in some important recent movie projects such as Dogville in 2003 and Birth in 2004.

Lauren Bacall has written two autobiographies, Lauren Bacall By Myself (1978) and Now (1994). In 2005, Bacall decided to revamp her books by updating and renaming the sole autobiography By Myself and Then Some.

She says that "absolutely" two of her favorite films were Designing Woman, a rare comedy for her, and The Shootist.

In 2004, Bacall started appearing in advertisements for the Tuesday Morning discount store franchise.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Bacall

B. B. King
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Riley B. King aka B. B. King (born September 16, 1925) in Itta Bena, Mississippi USA, is a well known American blues guitarist and songwriter. One of King's trademarks is naming his guitars "Lucille", a tradition that began in the 1950s.


Early Years

In the winter of 1949, King played at a dance hall in Twist, Arkansas. In order to heat the hall, a barrel half-filled with kerosene was lit, a not uncommon practice. During a performance, two men began to fight, knocking over the burning barrel and sending burning fuel across the floor. This triggered an evacuation. Once outside, King realized that he had left his guitar inside the burning building. He entered the blaze to retrieve his guitar, a Gibson acoustic. Two people died in the fire. The next day, King discovered that the two men were fighting over a woman named Lucille. King named that first guitar Lucille, as well as every one he owned since that near-fatal experience, "to remind me never to do a thing like that again."

King spent much of his childhood sharing time living with his mother and his grandmother and working as a sharecropper. King has said he was paid 35 cents for each 100 pounds (45 kg) of cotton he picked before discovering his other talents. At an early age, King developed a love for blues guitarists like T-Bone Walker and Lonnie Johnson and jazz artists like Charlie Christian and Django Reinhardt. Soon King was cultivating his own musical skills singing Gospel music in church.

In 1943, King moved to Indianola, Mississippi. Three years later, King moved to Memphis, Tennessee, where he finely tuned his guitar technique with the help of his cousin, country blues guitarist Bukka White.

Eventually, King began broadcasting his music live on Memphis radio station WDIA, a station that had only recently changed their format to play all-black music which was extremely rare at the time. On the air, King started out using the name The Pepticon Boy, which later became the Beale Street Blues Boy. The name was then shortened to just Blues Boy and, eventually, simply B.B.


Recording Years

In 1949, King began recording songs under contract with Los Angeles based RPM Records. Many of King's early recordings were produced by Sam Phillips, who would eventually found the legendary Sun Records.

In the 1950s, King became one of the most important names in R&B music, collecting an impressive list of hits under his belt that included songs like "You Know I Love You," "Woke Up This Morning," "Please Love Me," "When My Heart Beats like a Hammer," "Whole Lotta' Love," "You Upset Me Baby," "Every Day I Have the Blues," "Sneakin' Around," "Ten Long Years," "Bad Luck," "Sweet Little Angel," "On My Word of Honor," and "Please Accept My Love." In 1962, King signed to ABC-Paramount Records.

In November of 1964, King recorded the legendary Live at the Regal album at the Regal Theater in Chicago, Illinois.

King first found success outside of the blues market with the 1969 remake of the Roy Hawkins tune, "The Thrill Is Gone," which became a hit on both pop and R&B charts, which is rare for an R&B artist even today. King's mainstream success continued throughout the 1970s with songs like "To Know You Is to Love You" and "I Like to Live the Love." From 1951 to 1985, King appeared on Billboard's R&B charts an amazing 74 times.

Going Mainstream


The 1980s, 1990s and 2000s saw King recording less and less, but maintaining a highly visible and active career appearing on numerous television shows, major motion pictures and performing 300 nights a year. In 1988 he reached a new generation of fans via the single "When Love Comes To Town", together with the Irish band U2. In 2000, King teamed up with guitarist Eric Clapton to record Riding With the King.

In 2004, King was awarded an honorary Ph.D from the University of Mississippi and the Royal Swedish Academy of Music awarded him the Polar Music Prize, for his "significant contributions to the blues". King had also donated his extensive blues collection to the Ole Miss Center for Southern Studies.

Nearly 80, King has lived a very full and active life. He has been a licensed pilot, a known gambler and is also a vegetarian, non-drinker and non-smoker. A diabetic for over ten years, King has been a visible spokesman in the fight against diabetes and has appeared in advertisements for diabetes-management products. One example of these ads is one for OneTouch Ultra.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._B._King


"Woke Up This Morning"



You woke up this morning
Got yourself a gun,
Mama always said you'd be
The Chosen One.

She said: You're one in a million
You've got to burn to shine,
But you were born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes.

You woke up this morning
All the love has gone,
Your Papa never told you
About right and wrong.

But you're looking good, baby,
I believe you're feeling fine, (shame about it),
Born under a bad sign
With a blue moon in your eyes.

You woke up this morning
The world turned upside down,
Thing's ain't been the same
Since the Blues walked into town.

But you're one in a million
You've got that shotgun shine.
Born under a bad sign,
With a blue moon in your eyes.

When you woke up this morning everything you had was
gone. By half past ten your head was going ding-dong.
Ringing like a bell from your head down to your toes,
like a voice telling you there was something you should
know. Last night you were flying but today you're so low
- ain't it times like these that make you wonder if
you'll ever know the meaning of things as they appear to
the others; wives, mothers, fathers, sisters and
brothers. Don't you wish you didn't function, wish you
didn't think beyond the next paycheck and the next little
drink' Well you do so make up your mind to go on, 'cos
when you woke up this morning everything you had was gone.

When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
Mama said you'd be the Chosen One.

When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
When you woke up this morning,
You got yourself a gun.

Peter Falk
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Peter Falk (born September 16, 1927 of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Hungary) is an American actor. He is a descendent of Miksa Falk, who was the editor of the liberal Hungarian newspaper, the Pester Lloyd.

He was nominated for best supporting actor twice for Murder Inc, and Pocketful of Miracles.

He is best known for the title role in the long-running TV series Columbo, a shabby, seemingly slow-witted police detective. Columbo inevitably solved his cases through close attention to tiny inconsistencies in a suspect's story, hounding them until they confessed. Columbo's signature technique was to exit the scene of an interview, only to stop in the doorway to ask "just one more thing" of a suspect, which always brought to light the key inconsistency. The role won him 5 Emmies and a Golden Globe.

Falk is also loved for his brilliant performance in the high-brow comedy, The In-Laws. Falk played a crazed CIA agent who dupes his in-law, a New York City dentist, into joining a scheme to rob the U.S. Treasury. He also gave a memorable performance opposite Gena Rowlands in director John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence.

His right eye was surgically removed at the age of three because of cancer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Falk

McTag's probably heard this a million times, but since he mentioned the Mersey (i hope it's the same one):

Life goes on day after day
Hearts torn in every way

So ferry 'cross the Mersey
'cause this land's the place I love
and here I'll stay

People they rush everywhere
Each with their own secret care

So ferry 'cross the Mersey
and always take me there
The place I love

People around every corner
They seem to smile and say
We don't care what your name is boy
We'll never turn you away

So I'll continue to say
Here I always will stay

So ferry 'cross the Mersey
'cause this land's the place I love
and here I'll stay
and here I'll stay
Here I'll stay

Oh yes it's the same River Mersey, all right.
Flows from Stockport to the sea at Liverpool

Many Irish immigrants, and people of other nations emigrating across northern Europe, across the North Sea and then across England at its narrowest part, left for America on immigrant ships from Liverpool in the Mersey Estuary.

Good morning, WA2K fans and contributors.

Well, it seems that I have some transcripts to read and some explaining to do. <smile>

First, let me say to our Tico that I am glad that he located the information that he sought.

And to all you bird lovers, we enjoyed the anecdotes and observations.

Diane, are you not aware that sometimes Letty can be a cheeky brat? :wink:

Bob, thanks for all the great bios accompanied by the music. We appreciate all your contributions, Boston.

Good afternoon, McTag. Now that's odd. (well, not really) We have ospreys, gold eagles, and sometimes an ern or two.

Yit, Nice to see you back in our studios. Neat song, buddy. Thanks.

Good Day WA2K.

Today's birthdays:

1507 - Jiajing, Emperor of China (d. 1567)
1557 - Jacques Mauduit, French composer (d. 1627)
1651 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
1678 - Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, English statesman and philosopher (d. 1751)
1745 - Mikhail Illarionovich Kutuzov, Russian field marshal, (d. 1813)
1782 - Daoguang, Emperor of China (d. 1850)
1823 - Francis Parkman, American historian (d. 1893)
1875 - James C. Penney, American department store founder (d. 1971)
1881 - Clive Bell, English art critic (d. 1964)
1883 - T. E. Hulme, English writer (d. 1917)
1886 - Jean Arp, Alsatian sculptor, painter, and poet (d. 1966)
1887 - Nadia Boulanger, French composer and composition teacher (d. 1979)
1893 - Alexander Korda, Hungarian film director (d. 1956)
1910 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (d. 2003)
1914 - Allen Funt, American radio and television personality (d. 1999)
1916 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
1923 - Lee Kuan Yew, leader of Singapore
1924 - Lauren Bacall, American actress
1925 - B. B. King, American musician
1925 - Charlie Byrd, American musician (d. 1999)
1925 - Charles J. Haughey, Taoiseach of Ireland
1927 - Peter Falk, American actor
1930 - Anne Francis, American actress
1934 - Elgin Baylor, American basketball player
1934 - George Chakiris, American actor
1935 - Carl Andre, American artist
1935 - Bob Kiley, American public transit specialist
1937 - Alexander Medved, Russian wrestler
1939 - Breyten Breytenbach, South African writer and painter
1943 - James Alan McPherson, American writer
1947 - Russ Abbott, British comedian
1949 - Ed Begley, Jr., American actor
1950 - Loyd Grossman, American television presenter
1955 - Janet Ellis, British television presenter
1955 - Yolandita Monge, Puerto Rican singer
1955 - Robin Yount, baseball player
1956 - David Copperfield, American magician
1956 - Mickey Rourke, American actor
1958 - Orel Hershiser, baseball player
1958 - Jennifer Tilly, American actress
1960 - John Franco, baseball player
1963 - Richard Marx, American singer
1964 - Molly Shannon, American actress
1968 - Marc Anthony, American singer
1971 - Amy Poehler, American actress
1975 - Shannon Noll, Australian singer and actor
1984 - Katie Melua, Georgian singer

Good morning, Raggedy. Thanks again for the celeb updates. Strange, I just spotted a book by Lauren Bacall entitled "Myself". I don't think that I ever read it. Sheeeze! Either that, listeners, or I did and have forgotten it.

Ah, there's Mickey Rourke.

You know folks, I really think that he is a fine actor. Still remember the movie, Angel Heart. He and De Niro together were a great combination. And what an ending.

Speaking of movies, has anyone on our staff or in our audience seen Crash? I highly recommend it, folks.

Well, we miss German, France, and Canada. Hope all is well with them!

Better make that Germany, or better still, Walter.

Since I just voted for her as the best female singer (in a poll for the 100 best male/100 best best femal singers) with our state-wide radio (and 'yes', I'm fine, thanks for asking :wink: )



Marianne Faithful - Broken English

Could have come through anytime
Cold lonely, your return
What are you fighting for?
It's not my security
It's just an old war
Not even a cold war
Don't say it in Russian
Don't say it in German
Say it in broken English
Say it in broken English
Lose your father, and your husband
Your mother and your children
What are you dying for?
It's not my reality
It's just an old war
Not even a cold war
Don't say it in Russian
Don't say it in German
Say it in broken English
Say it in broken English
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?
Say it in broken English
Say it in broken English
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?
What are you fighting for?

Well, my goodness. Here's our Walter! Hey, Germany. I'm not familiar with Marianne Faithful, but that song is true; it seems that we may be broken beyond repair.

Back later, listeners. Don't touch that dial.

This is cyber space, WA2K radio.

speaking of animals, listeners:


2 Hikers Attacked by Yellowstone Grizzly 1 hour, 26 minutes ago



BOZEMAN, Mont. - A grizzly bear attacked two hikers in Yellowstone National Park, but the men escaped serious injury, the National Park Service said Thursday.


Pat McDonald, 52, of Bismarck, N.D., and Gerald Holzer, 51, of Northfield, Minn., were hiking on a trail near Shoshone Lake in the park's southern section Wednesday when they noticed fresh bear scat, officials said in a written statement.

They decided to continue, but were charged by a grizzly bear "at full stride" about a quarter-mile further along the trail, the release said.

Holzer, who was in front, sidestepped the bear. McDonald stepped behind some trees and dropped to the ground, officials said. The bear ran past him, but returned and swatted at him, then turned to Holzer, who had dropped to the ground and was lying on his stomach.

The bear jumped on Holzer's back, swatted at him, then retreated briefly. During that time, McDonald retrieved the bear spray strapped to his waist and doused the bear in the face when it returned and starting biting his leg. The bear then ran off, officials said.

The two men hiked 4 miles to the trailhead and drove to the clinic at Old Faithful for treatment.

McDonald suffered a puncture wound to his leg. Holzer was not injured, and officials said his backpack protected him during the attack.

Thank goodness that didn't turn out to be a "grizzly" tale.

That was unbearable

That's my official State Song, Bob!

Nice bit of history on the "Land Race." Actually, there were several land runs in Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory, as Oklahoma was known in those days. The first and most famous land run was in 1889. My great-grandparents were in the 1890 run, which divvied up leftover parcels from the big one in 1889. In typical Irish fashion, they hadn't believed the one in '89 was for real. The government, handing out land free and clear? Only afterwards did they realize they'd missed out, so along with many others they came back the following year. All settlers had to live on the land they claimed for seven years before the government deeded the land to them. I still have our family's original land patent, signed by President William McKinley. It's a very precious heirloom.

Well, listeners. Our bear isn't even on our radio, so here's a big groan for Bob.

Groan

Eva, How long ago we did the state songs. Well, we're still on the air, so let's hear it for the studio discussion group.

Hi Eva. One of the best representations of that I saw in a film called The Great Chase. The film was a compilation of snips from different silent films put together with a sound track in harmonica done by Larry Adler. One section of the film was a section taken from a film called Tumbleweeds (1925) starring William S. Hart. The cinematography was fantastic and Hart's dash was spectacular considering at the time he was 57 years old.

I've just got a new cell...

phone.