Deanna JamesFall 2013

Language ArtsThematic Unit

Annotated Bibliography

Oklahoma Land Run 4th grade

Juvenile fiction:We Were There at the Oklahoma Land RunJim Kjelgaard

Thousands of land-hungry people edged the Oklahoma border that April day in 1889, awaiting the signal that would send them across! What was in store for them? Wild riding! Possibly danger. Certainly adventure. And young Alec Simpson with his twin sisters, Cindy and Mindy, was to be a part of it.

WE-WERE-THERE BOOKS are easy to read and provide exciting, entertaining stories, based upon true historic events. Each story is checked for factual accuracy by an outstanding authority on this particular phase of our history. Though written for young readers, they make interesting reading for boys and girls well into their teensISBN-10: 1258205017 ISBN-13: 978-1258205010

Juvenile Fiction:Beautiful Land: A Story of the Oklahoma Land RushNancy Antle

Age Range: 8 - 12 yearsGrade Level: 3 - 7Gr. 3-5. From the Once Upon America series, this short chapter book describes the opening of the Oklahoma Territory. Anna Mae, her brother, and her father have been living in a dugout on the Kansas prairie for two years waiting for word that the new territory is open for settlement. When the news comes, the family lines up with others to race in a land run. Claim jumpers try to cheat them, but soldiers ride to the rescue and all ends well. Although too short to explore fully the emotional issues raised, the book fulfills its purpose in creating sympathetic characters and showing what daily life may have been like for settlers of the period. Especially recommended for libraries in the region and for others seeking short historical fiction at this reading levelISBN-10: 0140368086 ISBN-13: 978-0140368086

Easy Reader/PoemI Have Heard of a LandJoyce Carol Thomas

Age Range: 4 - 8 yearsGrade Level: 1 - 6

I have heard of a landWhere the imagination has no fences

Where what is dreamed one nightIs accomplished the next day

In the late 1880s, signs went up all around America - land was free in the Oklahoma territory. And it was free to everyone: Whites, Blacks, men and women alike. All one needed to stake a claim was hope and courage, strength and perseverance. Thousands of pioneers, many of them African-Americans newly freed from slavery, headed west to carve out a new life in the Oklahoma soil.Drawing upon her own family history, National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Thomas has crafted an unforgettable anthem to these brave and determned people from America's past. Richly illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award honoree Floyd Cooper, I Have Heard of a Land is a glorious tribute to the Afrian-American pioneer spirit. 00-01 Sequoyah Children's Book Award MasterlistISBN-10: 0064436179 ISBN-13: 978-0064436175

Easy Reader Fiction:Pappy’s HandkerchiefDevin Scillian, Chris Ellison

Age Range: 6 and up Grade Level: 1 - 4Young Moses and his family are barely scraping by. He helps his father in their fish stall selling each day's catch to passersby but times are hard in 1889 Baltimore. It's difficult to provide for a family of ten. But when they hear of free farmland out in Oklahoma, it sounds like the answer to their prayers. The family sells all they own and heads west to fulfill a lifelong dream. Their wagon journey, however, is plagued with troubles from ice storms and flooded rivers to diminishing supplies and sickness. Yet Moses and his family

persevere. They arrive in time to take a place along the boundary line that marks the staging point for the Oklahoma Land Run. But after making it this far, will even more bad luck prevent them from realizing their dream of owning their own piece of America? Evocative paintings and spellbinding storytelling bring the Oklahoma Land Run to vivid life for young readersISBN-10: 1585363162 ISBN-13: 978-1585363162

NonFictionBirth of GuthrieLloyd McGuire

Birth of Guthrie: Oklahoma's Run of 1889 and Life in Guthrie in 1889 and the 1890's, 1st edition (1998): Birth of Guthrie is a 364 page complete and fully documented history of Oklahoma's Run of 1889 and life in early Guthrie. Its pictorial cover and glossy pages lend it also to use as an attractive coffee table book; with its 180 photographs, including 88 Then and Now photos. The focus of the book is as stated in the title and sub-title. The table of contents gives a clear survey of various special features, as well as content. The book is well-documented with footnotes and bibliography; and is researched from nearly all available sources from 1889 to the present, including both primary and secondary sources. It is factually accurate, written from a variety of perspectives, and offers a large number of pictures, maps, and special features. It also gives follow-up through the 20th century on many of the places and events in the early period.

In the Introduction the author notes "Stories of 1889 have been told and heard many times. The intent here is to sort them out; add to them a great many new stories, personal accounts, maps, and pictures; clarify who did what when; and give it all a new perspective." Birth of Guthrie gives both specifics and a good overview; thus it serves as a source book with easily accessed details needed for understanding, and at the same time tells a story. Response to it has been very favorable. The book is also written to appeal to both those already knowlegeable of Guthrie and Oklahoma History, and those learning of it for the first time. It should be enjoyed by both.ISBN-10: 0967102308 ISBN-13: 978-0967102306

Easy Reader FictionThe Oklahoma Land RunUna Belle Townsend

Age Range: 5 - 8 yearsGrade Level: Kindergarten - 3

This children's picture book depicts the dramatic opening of 2 million acres of land in Oklahoma on April 22, 1889, and the mad rush that ensued as 50,000 people scrambled to stake their claim. Young Jesse convinces his injured father to let him drive the wagon. During the action-packed race, Jesse proves up to the challenges and secures a beautiful stake.ISBN-10: 1589805666 ISBN-13: 978-1589805668

NonfictionOklahoma City Land Run to StatehoodTerry Griffith

Located along the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, at a stop known as Oklahoma Station, Oklahoma City was born on April 22, 1889, at 12 noon. By 6:00 p.m., she had a population of around 10,000 citizens. As with any birth, there were many firsts in the newly opened territory, and many of these landmark events have been captured and preserved in historic photographs. With images culled from the archives of the author‚'s own vast personal collection as well as the Oklahoma Historical Society and other collections, the stories of prosperity and development of the area‚'s first settlers are told through Statehood. In light of this perseverance, it is no wonder that Theodore Roosevelt announced, ‚"Men and Women of Oklahoma. I was never in your country until last night, but I feel at home here. I am blood of your blood, and bone of your bone, and I am bound to some of you, and to your sons, by the strongest ties that can bind one man to another.‚"ISBN-10: 073850209X ISBN-13: 978-0738502090

Juvenile FictionThe Oklahoma Land RushGoscinny

The man who shoots faster than his own shadow is back. On 22 April 1889, the American government opened the new Oklahoma Territory to settlement. In this volume, Lucky Luke acts as a government agent and ensures that every candidate for settlement is treated fairly. He has to deal with jealousy, corruption and greed

Grade 8 Up In this installment, Luke is asked by the federal government to monitor the historic Oklahoma land grab with the help of the cavalry. Major events in the book parallel history the lineup on the territory line (as well as attempts by sooners to get in early), disputes over land, and the springing up of boomtowns peppered with the usual jokes and physical humor characteristic of the series. There is quite a lot of text that, plus references to actual events, makes Lucky Luke's adventures appropriate tie-ins to social-studies units as well as for leisure reading. New converts to the series will find plenty of volumes to keep themselves busy. The Oklahoma Land Rush was one of Goscinny's earlier entries in a run with artist Morris that would last nearly 30 years. Morris's art is distinctive his use of solid colors to draw attention to various features of a given panel is frequent and effective. Lucky Luke (and other characters) smokes cigarettes and cigars, and alcohol is used on occasion, and they blend in naturally in the stereotypical Old West environmentISBN-10: 1849180083 ISBN-13: 978-1849180085

FictionRed EarthBonnie Lynn Sherow

Before the great Land Rush of 1889, Oklahoma territory was an island of wildness, home to one of the last tracts of biologically diverse prairie. In the space of a quarter century, the territory had given over to fenced farmsteads, with even the racial diversity of its recent past simplified. In this book, Bonnie Lynn-Sherow describes how a thriving ecology was reduced by market agriculture. Examining three central Oklahoma counties with distinct populations--Kiowas, white settlers, and black settlers--she analyzes the effects of racism, economics, and politics on prairie landscapes while addressing the broader issues of settlement and agriculture on the environment. Drawing on a host of sources--oral histories, letters and journals, and agricultural and census records--Lynn-Sherow examines Oklahoma history from the Land Rush to statehood to show how each community viewed its land as a resource, what its members planted, how they cooperated, and whether they succeeded. Anglo settlers claimed the choice parcels, introduced mechanized farming, and planted corn and wheat; blacks tended to grow cotton on lands unsuited for its cultivation; and Kiowas strove to become pastoralists. Lynn-Sherow shows that as each group vied for control over its environment, its members imposed their own cultural views on the uses of nature--and on the legitimacy of the ‘other' in their own relationship with the red earth. Lynn-Sherow further reveals that racism, both institutionalized and personal, was a significant factor in determining how, where, by whom, and to what ends land was used in Oklahoma. She particularly assesses the impact of USDA policy on land use and, by extension, environmental and social change. As agricultural agents, railroads, and local banks encouraged white settlers to plant row crops and convert to market farms, they also discriminated against Indians and blacks. And, as white settlers prospered, they in turn altered the relationship of Indians and African Americans with the land. The transformation of Oklahoma Territory was a protracted power struggle, with one people's relationship to the land rising to prominence while banishing the others from history. Red Earth provides a perceptive look at how Oklahoma quickly became homogenized, mirroring events throughout the West to show how culture itself can be a major agent of ecological change.mISBN-10: 0700613242 ISBN-13: 978-0700613243

Poems

Oklahoma Poems and Other VerseFrank Colville

This reproduction was printed from a digital file created at the Library of Congress as part of an extensive scanning effort started with a generous donation from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. The Library is pleased to offer much of its public domain holdings free of charge online and at a modest price in this printed format. Seeing these older volumes from our collections rediscovered by new generations of readers renews our own passion for books and scholarshipASIN: B003U89YF6

PoemsNative SonRon Wallace

In 1830 the Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek would force the Choctaw People to begin their long sad walk along their Trail of Tears. Soon afterward the Cherokees would be forced down their own trail as well, while other Native Peoples were being moved from all across the country into Indian Territory. Over hundreds of miles in the dead of winter, entire tribes were torn from their native lands and moved to a wild and unsettled country. Death and disillusionment became the commonplace order of the day, but ultimately

these proud people would overcome the trauma and heartache and give this new land a new name taken from the Choctaw language. This place would become Oklahoma - a land of Red People. This is the land of which Ron Wallace speaks so proudly in his book, Native Son (American Poems From the Heart of Oklahoma). I feel the native pull of the land to my feet even now, / each time the redtail soars above me, / each time the bobcat or the fox crosses the open road / and disappears into the wild around me. He writes passionately of his love for family and friends and a set of values they and the land have instilled within him. He records the histories in the old way of father to son to grandson, and in so doing speaks for the universal nature of Oklahomans. A reader soon knows without a doubt, he writes from his heart, especially when he speaks of this state, which would give birth to a new strength in its people. In this land schools would be built, churches and democratic governments would arise with Native American men and women like a Phoenix from the ashes. Mr. Wallace captures this spirit in his poetry, a poetry of America, the common man, the laborers and educators, the red and white men and women who make up this great nation, this great state. It has become an integrated culture of many races, a culture seeking enlightenment and advancement while holding fast to a storied past and a history that made them strong. In his poem, Southern Thunder , he writes: There is a certain comfort in knowing / that we are a part of the land / both literally and figuratively, / that we become the roots, the anchors / holding worlds in place / strengthening the present with the past. This state with all its tribes, its many diverse peoples, rose up from the Great Depression and helped to reform the most powerful nation in the world. The Long Walks, the Trails of Tears, the Dust Bowl, the train of oppressive wars had taught this place how to carve a path through the most difficult times. It was the indomitable spirit of this Red Man s Land that helped forge this mightiest of countries. Such men as these could not be ignored. They lifted themselves, and with themselves, they lifted a state, an entire nation. In the words of the poetry here, you will find the hearts and the souls of the men and women. I am Oklahoma born, a native son / a part of the land The words of this work will carry themselves across even more generations. Like so many other great Oklahomans, Ron Wallace will make you feel the pride and passion, the history and honor of this place we call home, America, Oklahoma (Red People). Chief Gregory E. Pyle Choctaw Nation of OklahomaISBN-10: 0975931458 ISBN-13: 978-0975931455