In a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. in a series of poems, fifteen-year-old Billie Jo relates the hardships of living on her family's wheat farm in Oklahoma during the dust bowl years of the Depression. Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and...

An illustrated introduction to Oklahoma, providing information about the land and climate, natural resources, plants and animals, tourism, industry, goods and services, history, population, politics and government, cultural groups, sports, and arts and entertainment of the state.

Details the events surrounding the 1995 terrorist bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, as well as the investigation and trial of those responsible for the blast.

Outlaws feared him. Law-abiding citizens respected him. Bass always got his man, dead or alive. He achieved all this in spite of whites who didn't like the notion of a black lawman. The true story of former slave Bass Reeves, is the story of a remarkable African American hero of the Old West. This biography profiles the life of Bass Reeves, a former slave who was recruited as a deputy United States Marshal in the area that was to become Oklahoma....

An account of the life of Bass Reeves.

A Comanche grandmother and her grandson wait for the arrival of a herd of buffalo in this story based on the efforts of the American Bison Society to reintroduce bison to Oklahoma.