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I'm not him #TheLowDown open.substack.com/pub/allcrook...
I'm not him
No, I'm not that guy from The Lowdown or his real-life counterpart. Please stop asking.
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October 23, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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Ep. 6 Go Down, Moses.
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Ep. 6 Go Down, Moses.
The warrior Moses Naharkey confronts a new reality.
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September 5, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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What’s So Wrong With Oklahoma City Building A Tower To The Heavens? - thepickup.com/whats-so-wro...
What’s So Wrong With Oklahoma City Building A Tower To The Heavens? - The Pickup
Okie ex-pat JP Brammer goes long on Legends Tower, a fishy nonprofit, and whether or not Oklahoma is for dreamers.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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Ep. 4 Back me back to Tallasi.
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Ep. 4 Back me back to Tallasi.
A swanky hotel and a trip back into the real history of Tulsa.
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August 22, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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Episode 3: The Curtis Bill and Wahiley Naharkey
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Episode 3: The Curtis Bill and Wahiley Naharkey
Trouble comes to a tribal town, and then to the Naharkey family.
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August 14, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Episode 2: The Distorting Mirror of Tulsa
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Episode 2: The Distorting Mirror of Tulsa
Digging deeper in my house's abstract, a massive betrayal takes shape
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August 5, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Episode 1: We Belong to the Land?
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Episode 1: We Belong to the Land?
On patents, baseball, and a tree in midtown Tulsa
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July 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Nasty Newspapers 2: America First, Political Violence And Intimidation In Tulsa  - thepickup.com/nasty-newspa...
Nasty Newspapers 2: America First, Political Violence And Intimidation In Tulsa  - The Pickup
When two men were killed less than 24 hours apart in 1918, Tulsa's elite cheered. It was a place where seditious speech could prove fatal.
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June 18, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - thepickup.com/nasty-newspa...
Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - The Pickup
Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.
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April 1, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - thepickup.com/nasty-newspa...
Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - The Pickup
Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.
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March 28, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - thepickup.com/nasty-newspa...
Nasty Newspapers, The Klan and Tulsa’s Gilded Age - The Pickup
Fake news as a pretext for violence? Rule by the wealthy elite? Sky-high inflation? We’ve heard this story before.
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March 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Russell Cobb on Substack
In late November, 1922, newspapers around the nation announced a startling decision from the U.S. Supreme Court. The mysterious Tommy Atkins, Creek boy whose land was worth millions, was not a myth. ...
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January 31, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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The Oil Capital has torn out the pages of Minnie Atkins-Folk's lifestory in the role of its history. It has imposed a dark silence about her confession that Tommy Atkins was a fraud.
Here's a bit more about her.
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#tulsahistoricalsociety
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Understanding Minnie Atkins-Folk
“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don't-the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear.” --David Grann, The Wager
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January 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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The undisputed baddie genius of the Tulsa underworld. The greatest antihero you've never heard of: Sadie James
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The True Story of Tulsa’s Forgotten Antihero, Sadie James - The Pickup
A century ago, everyone in Tulsa knew about Sadie James and her saloon, the Bucket of Blood. But where was it? And how did the child of an enslaved woman, raised in a Kansas brothel, become the most f...
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January 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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The True Story of Tulsa’s Forgotten Antihero, Sadie James - The Pickup
A century ago, everyone in Tulsa knew about Sadie James and her saloon, the Bucket of Blood. But where was it? And how did the child of an enslaved woman, raised in a Kansas brothel, become the most f...
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January 23, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97 www.nytimes.com/2024/12/24/u...
William Labov, Who Studied How Society Shapes Language, Dies at 97
He laid the foundation for sociolinguistics, and he showed that structures like class and race shaped speech as much as where someone lives.
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December 25, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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In its heyday, Boley, Oklahoma, a town built by Black people, was known for hosting the oldest Black rodeo in America — attracting visitors nationwide

Today, a group of volunteers hope the 121-year-old rodeo can help revitalize the dying town
Can the Rodeo Save a Historic Black Town?
One woman’s quest to rescue Boley, Oklahoma
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December 19, 2024 at 8:56 PM