Oklahoma Wigwam Saga Ends in Kid's Death and Yancey's Stand
The Osage frontier tale centers on Yancey Craynat and Sabra amid the Kid’s capture and public display. Yancey refuses rewards and political offers as Sabra keeps the Wigwam alive, shaping a wary town’s memory of violence, loyalty, and community.
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Yancey
Cimarron
Osage
Kla
Doy
Yanees
Pawhuska Avenue
Sabra
Olce
Mra Wyatt
The
Philomatheans
Dixie Lee
Alnistoriy
Loula Tenner
Cravat
Ringo
Wettin
Hia Devk
Wolloe Venable
Hig
Sibra
Sheaun
Prairia
Mles
Xancey
Santa Fe Road
M. E
Kid
Inez
Roy Printing Press
Cim
Donny
Congress
Guttle
Pegler
Southwest
Venables
Mareys
Vians
Goforths
Sabra Yancey Wavers Over Oklahoma Strip Adventure
The Cravat family saga unfolds as Yancey pushes toward Oklahoma territory consolidation and the Cherokee strip opening. Sabra resists, clashes over fashion and politics, and the Wigwam paper and Osage society brace for upheaval. The plan promises cattle ranching and new life, while Sabra fights to stay.
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Osage
Sabra
Mier
Bella French Vian
Chicago
Oklahoma
Oklahoma Territory
Yancey
Dougin Betla French Vian
Cleveland
Cherokee Strip
Ufe
Dim
Donna
Felice Venable
Marcy
Tuskeamingo
Clm
Yancey Cravat Returns to Seek Truth and Change
Yancey Cravat, back from a new net territory, speaks to the Ven able family about his plan to start a Wichita Wigwam newspaper with Laura Venable. He recounts horse races, a gunfight, and clues leading to the killer of Pepe Ver while preparing to publish and conduct a Sunday rite.
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Yancey Cravat
Venable
Yancey Bn
Laura Venable
Wichita Wigwam
Tau
Yancey
Horace
Yancsy
Aabra
Cimarren
Hey
Osage
Whaery Yancey
Jedith Peg
Yaoncoy Raononcea
Pepe Ver
Ile Stonpa
Yountis
Billatooning
Yancey Sheath
Fountia
Tountis
Poxler Siabea
Danna
Wichita
Dense Sulphurous Fog Portends Plague in 1004
Hugh Muler in Scenes and Legends recounts a August 1004 night of dense sulphurous fog and cold east wind that withered corn and whitened fields. By November a pestilence followed with fevers and infectious fluxes. In West Caldor parish eight hundred of a thousand residents perished, leaving the Cage with eighty corpses in days.
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Hugh Muler
West Caldor
London Mall
Invisible Policeman and Hidden Rays Foresee Security Sparks
A 1931 Western Newspaper Union piece describes an unseen infrared security system at a New York meeting where a $50 bill near a five foot sofa triggered a burglar alarm via an invisible ray. The article notes remote counting of cars, fraud exposure uses, dye markers for illicit alcohol, and GE fever tube heat ideas for future radiative heating.
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New York City
New York Illuminating Engineering Society
Westinghouse Lamp Company
McCoy
Jewelera
Hankera
Springfield
Mass
General Electric Company
Schenectady
W. R. Whitney
Whitney
Thia
Western Newspaper Union
Curious local names for old village holidays emerge
In Ing land, northern villages show quirky holiday names. At Huddersfield area many unique terms appear such as Son jemis at Smithwaite and feasts or rushes at Honiley. Meltham and Slaithwaite have curious terms like partleby, while most villages use waken or fenste.
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Ingland
Slaithwaite
Partleby
Waken
Fenste
Cat Eyes Guide Night Time in Local Lore
A New York writer notes in On the Dot that in parts of Ching people judge time by the eyes of a cat. Local sayings echo this belief as a cat’s gaze on a fence at night signals approximate timing for tasks and events.
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Ching
Saya
New York
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Tsala
Semas
Cho
Hefner
Hin
Te Wag
Clay McNales
Heutenant
Whitlay
Chey
Aoife
Yancey Craynat
United States
Clay McNulty
Mico Tech
Wichlin
Sahrn
Kat Yancey
Prince Albert
Tip
Donan
Anita Red Feather
Isaiah
Wich- Sth
Jesse Rickey
Riual
Republic of the United States
Washington
Mandy
Big Norse
Buffalo Hide
Ikethla
Indian Territory
Okinhoma
Crayats
Oklahoma Willam
Five Civilized Tribes
Sequoyah
Jesse Hickey
Philomathean Culture Club
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