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Stories rooted in the places we know.
I was born and raised in Muskogee. My new book follows the people and places that shaped the other half of Oklahoma, and the state that almost existed there.
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Oklahoma was supposed to be two states. The other one had a name.
In 1905, people in Indian Territory proposed the State of Sequoyah. That almost-state opens a wider story of eastern Oklahoma: its towns, courts, oil fields, and the people who lived through the changes.
The State That Almost Was is a narrative history of that country by someone who grew up in it. Every chapter is connected to a place you can still stand in.
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