46 Highly Recommended Resources
The Oklahoma Library Association’s Centennial Committee
submits this list because it believes these items will be very helpful to have
for the State’s Centennial celebration.
Adult Fiction
Bound for Glory, Woody Guthrie
Grapes of Wrath, John Steinbeck
Prairie City, Angie Debo
Walking the Choctaw Road, Tim Tingle
Where the Heart Is, Billie Letts
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
Cimarron, Edna Ferber
Green Grow the Lilacs: a Play, Lynn Riggs
Honk & Holler Open Soon, Billie Letts
Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to His President, Will
Rogers
Fire in Beulah, Rilla Askew
Adult Non-Fiction
And Still the Waters Run, Angie Debo
Chronicles of Oklahoma (journal), Oklahoma
Historical Society
Five Civilized Tribes, Grant Foreman
Ghost Towns of Oklahoma, John W. Morris
101 Ranch, Ellsworth Collings
Oklahoma Almanac, Oklahoma Department of
Libraries
Route 66, The Mother Road, Michael Wallis
Guide to the Indian Tribes of Oklahoma, Muriel H.
Wright
Historical Atlas of Oklahoma, 3rd ed., John
W. Morris et al.
Death in a Promised Land; the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, Scott
Ellsworth
Fifty Common Birds of Oklahoma and the Southern Great
Plains, George M. Sutton
Woody Guthrie Songbook, Harold Leventhal and
Marjorie Guthrie
Bill Pickett, Bulldogger: the Biography of a Black
Cowboy, Bailey C. Hanes
Indian Removal, Grant Foreman
Oklahoma Places and Names, George H. Shirk
Trail of Tears: the Rise and Fall of the Cherokee Nation,
John Ehle
Will Rogers, Ben Yagoda
Children/Young Adult Fiction
Where the Red Fern Grows, Wilson Rawls
Outsiders, S. E. Hinton
Out of the Dust, Karen Hesse
Red-Dirt Jessie, Anna Myers
How Turtle’s Back was Cracked: a Traditional Cherokee
Tale, Gayle Ross and Murv Jacob
Dog Called Kitty, Bill Wallace
Green Snake Ceremony, Kim Doner
Children/Young Adult NonFiction
Children of the Dust Bowl, Jerry Stanley
Maria Tallchief: America’s Prima Ballerina, Ma
Tallchief
This Land is Your Land, Woody Guthrie
Bill Pickett: Rodeo Ridin’ Cowboy, Andrea Davis Pinkney
Sequoyah: Leader of the Cherokees, Alice Marriott
Trail of Tears, Joseph Bruchac
Audio-Visual
Indians, Outlaws and Angie Debo, produced by Barbara
Abrash and Martha Sandlin (videorecording)
Story of Will Rogers, videorecording
Oklahoma! With Gordon McRae and Shirley
Jones (DVD)
Cruisin’ Oklahoma U.S. 66, videorecording hosted by
Amy Rollins
Digital Collections
Chronicles of Oklahoma, http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/
Woody Guthrie and the Archive of American Folk Song, http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wwghtml/wwghome.html
Sooner Stories, http://www.odl.state.ok.us/oar/resources/index.htm
Oklahoma Images, http://webinfo2.mls.lib.ok.us/okimages/okimages.asp
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