Ghost-Town Tales of Oklahoma

Ghost-Town Tales of Oklahoma

• San Bernardo (Petersburg) -- The Battle, 1759
• Spencerville -- Belle Starr, circa 1888
• Oklahoma (Whitefield) -- Belle's Ghost, circa 1889
• Navajoe -- The Gamblers, 1890
• Ingalls -- The Church Party, 1893
• Melvin -- `Cherokee Bill,' 1894
• Tamaha -- The Jail, circa 1896
• Grand -- The Grave, circa 1896
• Corner -- A Pint for Every Boot, circa 1899
• Florence -- The Saloon, 1901
• Hamburg -- The Wedding, 1902
• Salt Springs -- The Race, 1921
• Bigheart (Barnsdall) -- A Different Line of Work, 1922
• Hess -- Red River, circa 1922
• America -- Local Spirit, 1925
• Paw Paw -- Floods, circa 1927
• Strong City -- Mexican Firewater, 1929
• Oktaha -- Andrew's Burial, 1932
• Caney -- The Vigilantes, 1934
• Akins -- Pretty Boy's Funeral, 1934
• Possum Hollow -- `Turn 'em Loose!', circa 1934
• Peoria -- The Spook Light, circa 1946
• Medicine Spring -- A Treasure Story, circa 1950
• Dempsey -- The Tornado, 1955
• Keokuk Falls -- The Last Drunk, circa 1957
• Lost City -- The Falling Star, 1970

"A reviewer’s delight!" – Joan C. Hewitt, Oklahoma book reviewer.

"Should be required reading in Oklahoma schools." – Craig McVey, veteran Oklahoma history teacher.

"… a look at Oklahoma that brings the past galloping into today." – Frank Boggs, retired columnist and editor, The Daily Oklahoman.

Jim Marion Etter is a retired, award-winning reporter for The Daily Oklahoman whose offbeat, folksy writing about his home state has earned him the reputation as "Oklahoma’s master country storyteller." A writer of both fiction and nonfiction, he’s the author of five books and a contributing author of four others, and has written for numerous magazines including Persimmon Hill and Western Horsemen. A native of the small Muskogee County town of Oktaha, he now lives in Oklahoma City. He’s also been a newspaper and television reporter in Laredo, Texas – "El Charro Flaco" – and has served as a military journalist and translator in Latin America.