Back in Time

When Europeans settled in the new world, many Indians noticed the newcomers could communicate through writing. Most believed it was sorcery, but Sequoyah created a system of writing the Cherokee language. Soon, more Cherokees could read and write than the white settlers. The story of Sequoyah, the man who invented the Cherokee syllabary and unraveled the mystery of the “Talking Leaves.”

The romantic image of the old west, of cattle drives and trail hands riding the range, has captured imaginations for over a century. The Chisholm Trail is the most famous of many trails that brought hundreds of thousands of cattle from Texas through Oklahoma to the railheads in Kansas. Beef is bigger than ever and continues to drive the economy of Oklahoma’s “Cow Town.”