Episode 3: Take Me Back To Coweta Town
Atkins belonged to Coweta Town, an ancient tribal town that was relocated to Indian Territory when he was a young child.
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Russell Cobb
Jul 194 min read
Ep. 2: The Heiress & Her Mythical Oil Fortune
In January 1881, a new student named Minnie Atkins arrived at Pennsylvania's Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Russell Cobb
Jul 26 min read
Ep. 1: Stumbling Upon A Forgotten Crime in the Oil Capital of the World
I was not expecting to find lost treasure as I shifted through a pile of paperwork. But there was one thing that caught my eye: a series of
Randy Hopkins
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High School Football 1921: Return of the Hornets
By Randy Hopkins Courtesy of Tulsa Booker T. Washington High School. In the fall of 1921, students began returning to Tulsa, Oklahoma's...
Russell Cobb
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"All Crooks at Tulsa" The Myth of Tommy Atkins & The Enduring Legacy Of An Oil Capital Fraud
Tommy was a Muscogee boy whose land was worth many millions of dollars in 1914. The only problem was that he may have never existed.
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