MURDER AND MAYHEM IN NORTHEAST OKLAHOMA

My next book is Murder and Mayhem in Northeast Oklahoma, which will be released in late October by The History Press, the same publisher that has also published several of my other books. Two of those previous books were Murder and Mayhem in Missouri and Murder and Mayhem in Southeast Kansas. So, the upcoming book is part of the Murder and Mayhem series.

I will be posting condensed accounts on this blog of some of the notorious characters and incidents covered in the book after it comes out. For now, though, I'll just mention some of the subjects covered without going into detail about any of them.

Among those subjects are the pre-Civil War feud between the Treaty Party of the Cherokee tribe and the Anti-Treaty Party of the same tribe that led to the murder of three members of the Treaty Party in 1839. Another chapter chronicles the Goingsnake Tragedy of 1872 that left 11 people dead. There's a chapter on notorious outlaw Henry Starr and a chapter on the infamous Tulsa Race Riot, more accurately called the Tulsa Race Massacre. Another chapter covers the Osage Murders, made infamous by the book Killers of the Flower Moon and the movie of the same name. There's a chapter about Pretty Boy Floyd and another about Bonnie and Clyde's killing of a law officer in Commerce, Oklahoma. The two most recent subjects covered in the book are the Girl Scout murders of the late 1970s and the Freeman-Bible murder case over twenty years later.

There a few others I did not mention above, but this will give you a taste of what the book is about. The book is available for pre-order directly from the publisher (Arcadia Publishing/The History Press) or from your favorite online super-duper bookstore https://amzn.to/4cPL3ZZ.