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 mostly from photographs, index. Tales of nearly forgotten times and places offer interesting and entertaining vignettes of little-known events in Oklahoma history. 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 unread copy without dust jacket, as issued.

Inventory Number: 52372