Ghost-Town Tales Of Oklahoma. Unforgettable Stories Of Nearly Forgotten Places

JIM MARION ETTER

Publication: New Forums Press, Inc, 1996, Stillwater

First edition. 8vo. Color pictorial stiff wrappers, viii, 248 pp., acknowledgements, foreword, illustrated from photographs and drawings, index. An entertaining read from a master country storyteller of many of Oklahoma's out-of-the-way and nearly forgotten places. Included in the 26 chapters are descriptions of a crucial battle between Indians and Spaniards in 1759; a place where "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was composed; the wild and woolly past of a town called Navajoe; a whiskey-smuggling scheme that set a train depot on fire; a young man who left the oil fields for Hollywood; a scary light that has haunted a lonely road for years; and where once a strange but lively party took place in a moonlit cemetery. Fine, bright copy.

Inventory Number: 50236