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BELLE STARR Rides in Haskell County, Oklahoma

This page contains names and contact information for various authors who live in, or are connected to, Haskell County,  Oklahoma.  Be sure to scroll down the page to see all the authors listed.  Please feel free to contact anyone listed here, using the information shown.

 
JAY BOGGS - AUTHOR
Tucker Knob Mountain
   

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Jay Boggs was affectionately known as The Old Sorghum Sopper. 
   
 
A memoir of Jay's life on Tucker Knob Mountain

OSCAR PRESLEY FOWLER - AUTHOR
The Haskell Regime: The Intimate Life of Charles Nathaniel Haskell

Oscar Fowler was a native of Stigler, Oklahoma. According to the Chronicles of Oklahoma, there is a copy of Oscar Fowler's book, The Haskell Regime: The Intimate Life of Charles Nathaniel Haskell, in the Oklahoma Historical Society.  Besides his book about Charles N. Haskell, Oscar did extensive research on Belle Starr, including interviews with many of the Haskell County residents who still remembered her.  It is my understanding that Mr. Fowler passed away before he could finish writing his book about Belle Starr; I believe that his nephew has donated Oscar's research papers to an unknown library or museum. 

 
 

 
JANICE HOLT GILES - AUTHOR
 
The Kinta Years

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Janet Holt Giles and The Giles Society

This Biographical Information was reproduced from the Giles' website, please click on the link to find out about the Giles' other work:  "Janice Holt was born in Arkansas in 1905. As a child she moved to Indian Territory (Oklahoma) where her parents were teachers. She grew up with books and music and became an accomplished young woman. When her first marriage ended, Janice and her daughter came to Louisville, Kentucky, where Janice worked for Dr. Lewis Sherrill, Dean of Presbyterian Seminary.  On a trip to visit family in 1943, Janice happened to share a bus ride with Henry Giles, a soldier on his way to a new assignment.  In two days on the bus they became such good friends that they were soon corresponding daily. After Henry was sent overseas he proposed to Janice via mail and, although they never saw each other in the interim, they were married as soon as Henry returned from active duty in 1945.  After a year or so in Louisville, the couple settled at Knifley, Adair Co., Ky, Henry's home, where Janice wrote and Henry farmed. Eventually Henry also began to write.  The story of how they built their log house and the necessity of moving it after the Green River Dam was built is chronicled in two books by the Gileses: A LITTLE BETTER THAN PLUMB and AROUND OUR HOUSE.  Preservation of this house and the literary heritage left by Janice and Henry is the focus of the Janice Holt Giles and Henry Giles Society."

   
 
BOOKS WRITTEN BY JANICE HOLT GILES

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