KGOU Readers Club: Tinkertown

KGOU Readers Club: 100 Things To Do In Oklahoma City Before You Die

Quoting from the book's dedication page: "To everyone who thinks Oklahoma is a flyover state, the joke is on you."

KGOU Readers Club: Tinkertown

The book we’re featuring for this episode is Tinkertown: A Wheatfield, an Airbase, and Us, about the founding of Midwest City near Tinker AFB, and a memoir of sorts for author Jim Willis, but also a peek into the fascinating history of Midwest City, a history perhaps not many fully know. From planes to ponies, it’s a unique place.

KGOU Readers Club: Here Today

The KGOU Readers Club’s latest selection is the new book Here Today: Oklahoma’s Ghost Towns, Vanishing Towns, and Towns Persisting against the Odds, from OU Press and author Jeffrey Schmidt.

KGOU Readers Club: American Eclipse

On a July afternoon in 1878, at the dawn of the Gilded Age and the height of the Wild West, the moon's shadow descended on the American frontier, darkening skies from Montana Territory to Texas. In an era of train robberies and Indian hostilities, scientists grabbed their telescopes and raced to the West.

KGOU Readers Club: Jim Thorpe - World's Greatest Athlete

In an updated re-release of his book, author Robert W. Wheeler and his wife, Dr. Florence Ridlon, add to Jim Thorpe's story, and discuss their own efforts to restore his 1912 Olympic medals, rescinded following a dispute over his amateur status.