| Anthony Felder & Virgil Pugh 05/03/2013 |
Longtime friends Anthony Felder and Virgil Pugh have participated together in the Okeene Rattlesnake Roundup for fifty years. Both have had active roles in the Roundup from working in the snake pit to… |
| Carter Revard 11/18/2009 |
Carter Revard, author and poet, talks about his childhood and his educational path that led to him becoming a Rhodes scholar at Oxford. He describes his experiences as a student and the influence that… |
| Dewey Muirhead 11/06/2018 |
Dewey Muirhead, born in 1922, speaks of his childhood living on a farm during the Great Depression. He recalls going to a small schoolhouse, pulling cotton, and dancing with his sister. Dewey reminisces… |
| Dwayne Roark 06/20/2011 |
Dwayne Roark was born in Cheyenne, Oklahoma in 1952, the middle child of five. After graduating from Cheyenne High School in 1970, he attended college at Sayre before moving back to Cheyenne. Dwayne’s… |
| Earl Newsom 12/02/2011 |
Earl Newsom was born in Drumright, Oklahoma, in 1919, in the days when it was a thriving oil boom town. When Earl was sixteen years old, he began reporting for the Drumright Journal. At age seventeen,… |
| Faye Richardson 06/15/2009 |
Faye Richardson, born in 1938, shares memories of growing up in the Oklahoma communities of Sumner and Perry. She talks about the fun she had with her twin sister May, as well as the many little road trips… |
| Frances Gardner 01/13/2011 |
Frances Gardner graduated from high school in Burbank, Oklahoma in 1939. After a few jobs, she accepted a position in City Services for Bartlesville and retired at the age of fifty-five with twenty-one… |
| Guy Logsdon 01/25/2013 |
Guy Logsdon was born the fifth of five children in an extremely musical household where everyone could sing or play a musical instrument. At age thirteen, he became part of the Western Seven, a country-western… |
| Inez Muirhead 11/06/2018 |
Inez Muirhead, born in 1923, discusses her life growing up in rural Oklahoma during the Great Depression and World War II era. She talks about her childhood and shares stories of her parents and siblings,… |
| Jean Wilhelm 11/17/2009 |
Jean Wilhelm recalls serving in the U.S. Naval Reserve united known as the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) during World War II. She talks about her motivation for joining and goes… |
| John Mott 04/20/2012 |
John Mott was born in Picher, Oklahoma, and lived there for nearly seventy years. Picher was a main hub for the lead and zinc mining industry in the United States, producing numerous mine shafts and piles… |
| Lloyd Bratcher & Inez Bratcher 03/22/2012 |
Lloyd Bratcher was born in Bromide, Oklahoma, in 1925 and grew up in Tribbey. Growing up on a farm and being the oldest of ten children, Lloyd had a lot of responsibilities, even as a child. When war broke… |
| Marie Kerr 02/18/2011 |
Marie Kerr was born in 1947 in Verdun, France, to parents that had emigrated from Poland. She grew up speaking Polish with her family, and once she started school she switched to French. She did not study… |
| Mary Jo Edgmon 03/14/2012 |
Mary Jo Edgmon was born in Okemah, Oklahoma in 1922 to Charlie Edward and Nora Belle Guthrie, the last of five children. When she was three, she moved to Groom, Texas to live with her Aunt Maude and Uncle… |
| Mille Naff 08/01/2012 |
Mildred “Mille” Naff was born in Olathe, Kansas, to a mother who was a housekeeper and a father who owned and operated a boot and shoe company. (His father is said to be the original creator of the cowboy… |
| Opal Jeffries 01/19/2012 |
Opal Jeffries was born in Texas in 1908 and her family later moved to Cimarron County in Oklahoma in 1922 where her father became a wheat farmer. She was the middle child of five children. In 1924, at… |
| Patti Dickinson 09/11/2009 |
Patti Dickinson, an author, is best known for her two books about Oklahoma personalities, Frank (Pistol Pete) Eaton and Coach Tommy Thompson. She talks about growing up and being drawn to her Oklahoma… |
| Robert Pemberton 12/08/2011 |
Robert Pemberton was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up in Oklahoma City. He graduated from Northeast High School in 1978 and enrolled at OSU, following in the footsteps of his mother who had graduated… |
| Susan Kalter 06/30/2013 |
Susan Kalter was born and raised in Ithaca New York, her father a professor at Cornell University, giving her a strong academic background. She earned her bachelor’s degree at Stanford University, and… |
| Thelma Bray 04/10/2012 |
Thelma Bray was born in New Mexico in 1923 to Gladys and Verna Osborn. In the midst of the Depression, in 1932, her family moved to Pampa, Texas, where they had relatives and where oil money supported… |
| Virginia H. Mathews 09/09/2009 |
Virginia H. Mathews is the daughter of the notable Osage writer, John Joseph Mathews. She talks about her childhood and the special bond she shared with her father. Mathews explains her family's history… |
