Michael Overall

Making room for a new state office complex in the early 1960s, Oklahoma officials used eminent domain to clear four square blocks of land north of the Capitol building, tearing

The day before he took office, Mayor-elect James Maxwell was not even in Tulsa. He’d gone to Dallas.

In mid-April 1961 Allie Beth Martin moved into a makeshift office in a reception room on the second floor of the former Tulsa County Courthouse at Sixth Street and Boulder

Looking for excuses to get out of the house in his mid-70s, Bob McKim took a friend’s advice that he start volunteering at Tulsa International Airport.

The phone rang again at 4:30 in the afternoon, by which time Sid Patterson was tired, grumpy and in no mood to listen to yet another complaint.

Describing himself as “a fairly shy, reserved person,” Ross Swimmer did not want to jump into politics but felt obligated to run for principal chief of the Cherokee Nation because,

Umping a kids’ baseball game in the summer of 1948, Bill Boyd shared a bucket of drinking water with both teams and everyone gulped out of the same ladle. That’s

In one of Tulsa’s earliest socialite weddings, Vera Clinton married Irish immigrant James H. McBirney at her family’s rural home near Red Fork on June 6, 1901.

During a meeting in August 1990, the Tulsa City Council fell into a heated debate over allocating federal block grant money. Some members wanted the funds to go to the

Oilman and philanthropist Walt Helmerich used to have his secretary call about once a month to schedule lunch with John Erling, a well-known voice on Tulsa’s KRMG radio. At first,