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Oklahoma Today July-August 1985 Volume 35 No. 4 July-August '85 CXlMMQ FARMS: OKLAHOMA'S LANDMARK FARMER'S MARK€T DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH: WORKS BY NATIVE AMERICAN. WOMEN +,. "4% July-August '85 George Nigh, Governor Vol. 35, No. 4 k, 2 ;@lam COVERS MAKING CRAZY CIRCLES IN THE SKY There's a lot more to a Fourth of July fireworks show than meets your eyes. DAUGHTERS OF THE EARTH Works by eight gdted Native American ADVENTURES IN THE FUR Fireworks light up the night artists, who also just happen to be TRADE at Edmond's July 4th Oklahomansand women. About the time Jim Bridger and Jedediah celebration. Photo by Jim Smith were making legends of themselves Argo. InrtaeJ;ont. Along the in the Rocky Mountain fur trade, a band North Canadian. Photo by 24 of equally stalwart men were trapping and Ivan L. McCartney. Back TRUCK FARMING'S FIRST trading along Red River. Now you can Sailboat at sunset, Lake FAMILY make a trek to Lawton and see their life for Hefner. Photo by Ivan L. They're the Conrads, and they farm 1,000 yourself. McCartney. acres of Bixby bottomland. They've also put Oklahoma on the cover of the FEATURES GuinmssBook of WorBRecord by growing DEPARTMENTS 11 the biggest watermelon anyone's ever seen. Today In Oklahoma ........................................ 4 ALFALFA BILL MURRAY BodcdLeltenr.................................................. 4-5 There's never been anyone else like Alfalfa Uncommon Common Folk .......................... 6 Bill Murray. He nearly declared war on Dcrtinations: Osage Hills .............................. 8 Texas, planted potatoes on the lawn of the Oklahoma Omnibus ...................................... 10 governor's mansion-and swore by prairie On to Oklahoma ......................................... 45 populism till the day he died. Entertainment Calendar ................................ 46 July-August '85 ing and can actually hear worms (a main meal) crawling beneath the ground. When the soil is frozen, no subterranean movement takes place. Therefore the armadillos don't know where to dig- and starve to death. Lots more facts on the armadillo, fea- tured in this issue's Oklahoma Omnibus, begin on page 10. Whenever Oklahoma historians or politicians get together, frequently the conversation turns to ''Alfalfa BW Mur- ray, the state's most colorful governor. A collection of the choicest Murray anec- ack in 1968, some of the country's cement blocks in her garage. This allowed dotes are included in our article on Gov- Bbest-known Native American artists the children to play beneath her and kept ernor Murray, which begins on page 11. were crowded into the Five Civilized them from bumping their heads on the For those who want more, an excel- Tribes Museum at Muskogee. All were table. "I added cement blocks until my lent biography is Keith Bryant's Awfa waiting for the judge to name the winners stool was as high as it would go," she Bill Muray, published by OU Press. of its prestigious annual art competition. laughs. Several bound volumes of Murray's per- Virginia Stroud says she will never Another artist in the show, Joan Brown, sonal memoirs are also available in the forget the moment when the judge painted by setting up her art table on top library of the Western History Collec- announced "J. FifeH-and Jimmie Carol of packing boxes while her children were tions at the University of Oklahoma-as Fife walked to the front to receive her small. That way she could watch them is a large collection of manuscripts related medallion. "Everyone gasped, 'It's a play and keep them out of the paints. to his term as governor, personal papers woman!,"' Ms. Stroud recalls. "The Daughters of the Earth exhibit and the tracts he published. That's when the idea for the Daugh- should help people see that you don't tjv ORkzhmrz TODAY will be celebrat- ters of the Earth art exhibit was born. have to miss out doing what you want to ing its 30th Anniversary with a special Although the group is just getting orga- do by having children. You just have to January-February issue on bests, firsts nized, eight women are exhibiting in the juggle your time. It's quality time with and favorites in Oklahoma. Please write current show. Examples of their work children that counts," Ms. Stroud says. us about your favorite picnic spot, scenic begin on page 16. Ms. Stroud estimates "These are all fun women to work drive, festival or place to go fishing or that only about 40 Native American with," Ms. Stroud says about the Daugh- birdwatching. When guests come to visit, women are artists. ters of the Earth members. "We're com- what do you show off in your town? A "All of us started painting in a garage petitive in our field, but we've known historical home or perhaps a statue? Do or on a kitchen table," Ms. Stroud says. each other a long time, and we work well you have a favorite hiking path or trail "We painted after our children went to together. This is pretty exciting for all of ride? The best place to view wildflowers bed and then got up early the next mom- US." and wildlife? Write us a page or two ing to go to our regular jobs." W If it is unconventional for Indian about your favorite things, and be sure to Her babies were both raised on cradle- women to become artists, it is perhaps include your name and address. Mail it bards. She remembers taking her daugh- even less traditional for an Indian man to by August 1, and we'll include as many ter, now 12, to art shows in Tulsa and teach sewing. But Andy Harjo has be- as we have space for.-Sue Carter. Oklahoma City. When she arrived, she come an expert on Seminole patchwork. would place the baby in the cradleboard He's teaching others the craft before it is under the reception table. Hidden by a forgotten. His story begins on page 6. long white tablecloth, the baby would W Most years, automobiles seem to be sleep for hours, while Ms. Stroud talked the armadillo's Public Enemy No. 1. But to customers and sold her paintings. for the last two years, the weather has At home, she painted on the floor or tumed against the critters as well. Herpe- on TV trays with the babies nearby in tologist Bob Jenni reports that the several their cradleboards so she could talk to weeks of bitter weather during the win- Your article "TheBelles of Tahlequah"in them while she worked. ters of 1983 and 1984 have decimated the the March-April 1985 issue brought back As the children grew, and she began Oklahoma 'dillo population. many memories for my friend Sophia Gott larger works, she set up an art table on Armadillos, Jenni says, have acute hear- Kerr. The older sisters and cousins of the Oklahoma TODAY Gott family of Ft. Gibson attended the My check is enclosed for one year's sub- farm during the depression of the early seminary. An uncle, Joe French, was the scription to Okhhoma TODAY. Please '90s; hunting coyotes and living the life superintendent at one time, and several begin with the March-April 1985 issue. of a cowboy on the plains; teaching in relatives in the Vann family worked in This is very important to me, as this issue one-room schools like Clabber Flat near the kitchen and other areas of the school. contains articles about Bruce Goff, with Navajoe for $25 a month; earning his BA My friend also remembers many tales whom I worked when he was just a at OU in 1909; studying with Turner at of Florence Wilson, the headmistress, skinny boy designing that beautiful Harvard. The book, second volume in told by her sister Laura and cousins Boston Avenue Methodist Church in his autobiography, also covers his long Gypsy French and Helen Vann, who Tulsa, and about Red Bud Valley. Dr. career as college professor, from instruc- attended the seminary before it burned. Harriet Barclay is a personal friend of tor to George Lynn Cross Research Pro- Thanks for a great article and excel- long standing and I am a member of a fessor at OU. lent pictures. We enjoyed it. club that worked hard and raised several As Dr. Gibson says in his introduc- Mrs. Gloria Warner hundred dollars toward the purchase of tion, the greatest value of Dale's work is Amarillo, Texas the valley. that he had lived the life he wrote about: So you can understand that this issue is "Edward Everett Dale was a bridge. one which I want to keep. Friends have connecting the simplistic frontier past I just want to say my renewal for Okh- offered to lend me their copies, but they with the complex technological present. homa TODAY was mainly influenced by all want them returned, and I definitely With splendid poise, disarming inno- the writer, Kathryn Jenson. She has a want a copy which I can keep. cence, and sensitive response he provided way of bringing the "good old people," Betty N&h exciting, living connective tissue between the common but "uncommon folks," to Tulsa these two eras." real life for me. You can almost see them and hear them, as they talk to you about A Field Guide to American Windmills, by their lives in Oklahoma. I get a little T. Linday Baker; Univetaity of Okhtioma nostalgic when I reminisce with them. Pm,21005 Asp Ave., Norman, OK 73029; Kathryn has a way of making each life $65. T. Lindsay Baker has undoubtedly seem so important, but her sense of humor done the ultimate study on the quintes- with her "Okie dialect'' makes me "belly- sential machine of the Great Plains: the laugh," for we do have our own particu- The West Wind Blows: The Autobiog- windmill.
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