Tag: cowboy

If you want to veer away from sports or performances this month, community events abound. In Tulsa, get your tickets to the Second Saturday Architecture Tour on Feb. 11, hosted by the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture. This month, the group explores the Tulsa Underground tunnel system. And if you’re prepping for summer, swing by Expo Square for the Tulsa Boat,...

Joe Kreger wrote his first poem in response to hardship. Fellow cowboy poet Wallace Moore created verses in his head while on the job at a factory. Eventually their work was “discovered” by friends and relatives, and their performing careers were launched. A cowboy poet, Moore says, “is someone who believes that he or she has a story to tell....

It started when Leatha Pierce, a volunteer for LIFE Senior Services in Tulsa, asked Bob Wiles to put together a band for a big fundraising event. She knew Wiles was the man for the job. Not only had he been a founding member of the Red Dirt Rangers, that trailblazing Stillwater band; he also knew and regularly jammed with...

In 1950, heroes featuring African-Americans were few and far between; black comic strip heroes were even more scarce. Trailblazing and in full color, The Chisholm Kid was the exception. Running in the Pittsburgh Courier, one of the nation’s prominent African-American newspapers, The Chisholm Kid championed a positive image, namely a heroic cowboy on par with his white comic strip contemporaries,...