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A 1913 headline "A Story of Corruption that in History Is Not Surpassed" had the subhead "Appears Now That Oklahoma State Legislature Is Going to Uncover Rankest Graft Ever Perpetrated
He first came to Oklahoma soon after the opening of the Cherokee Strip and became a deputy sheriff, but previously was sentenced to prison for bank robbery (but escaped).
Tulsa's city jail was "worse than the black hole of Calcutta," Kate Barnard told the Tulsa World after a surprise visit to the "dungeon" in 1914.
He was the state's most colorful politician, who had been president of Oklahoma's Constitutional Convention, served in the Legislature, served two terms in Congress and was Oklahoma's ninth governor.
While those employed to implement the Dawes Commission and the Curtis Act were attempting to dismantle the Indian Nations, voices calling for statehood were growing louder in the west. Every