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Subject(s)

• Stewart, Roy P. [Browse]
• Journalists—Oklahoma—Biography [Browse]
• Oklahoma—History [Browse]

Related name

Shank, Judith Kaye Stewart [Browse]

Series

Oklahoma voices [More in this series]

Summary note

Roy P. Stewart arrived in Oklahoma in 1910 and began observing the going-ons of his adopted state. Atthe middle of the century, his Country Boy column apppeared for the first time in the Daily Oklahoman. Readers loved his work and often picked up the morning paper with one thought in mind: What's Country Boy's take on the world today?

Notes

Includes index.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• From streetcars to tornadoes : Nashville and Weatherford
• From dugouts to "The largest city there was" : Guymon and Custer City
• The oil boom town : Ardmore
• Moving on and coming home : Walters and Weatherford
• Chicago and Chautauquas
• Graduating into the Depression
• Small town papers, big city fairs
• From FFA to OPUBCO
• The 45th Division gears up for war
• From the prairie to the port
• From the service club to the invasion force
• With the Korean occupation
• Coming home to the next war
• In Washington, D.C.
• In Oklahoma City
• In Russia
• And Europe
• The Russians return our visit
• With NATO
• In the Orient and Hawaii
• On the farm
• In my second career.

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ISBN

1885596111

LCCN

^^^98068082^

OCLC

43442888

RCP

H - S

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