The Oklahoma Gang and the never-ending story of the Great American Grift

Let's talk about the Route 66 Centennial you've never heard of: a woman named Centennial Manuel

What you don't know can really mess with your head.

I started my newsletter as a space to document the untold fraud committed by Charles Page and the Sand Springs Home. Those entities took possession of the Tommy Atkins oil lease and made Page one of O...

Immigration detentions in Oklahoma are on the rise. One case shows how ICE’s cooperation with Tulsa County makes it possible.

No, I'm not that guy from The Lowdown or his real-life counterpart. Please stop asking.

The warrior Moses Naharkey confronts a new reality.

Okie ex-pat JP Brammer goes long on Legends Tower, a fishy nonprofit, and whether or not Oklahoma is for dreamers.

A swanky hotel and a trip back into the real history of Tulsa.

Trouble comes to a tribal town, and then to the Naharkey family.

Digging deeper in my house's abstract, a massive betrayal takes shape

On patents, baseball, and a tree in midtown Tulsa

When two men were killed less than 24 hours apart in 1918, Tulsa's elite cheered. It was a place where seditious speech could prove fatal.

Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.

Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.

Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.

In late November, 1922, newspapers around the nation announced a startling decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. The mysterious Tommy Atkins, Creek boy whose land was worth millions, was not a myth. ...

“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don't-the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear.” --David Grann, The Wager

A century ago, everyone in Tulsa knew about Sadie James and her saloon, the Bucket of Blood. But where was it? And how did the child of an enslaved woman, raised in a Kansas brothel, become the most f...

A century ago, everyone in Tulsa knew about Sadie James and her saloon, the Bucket of Blood. But where was it? And how did the child of an enslaved woman, raised in a Kansas brothel, become the most f...

He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.

One woman’s quest to rescue Boley, Oklahoma