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“michael j hightower”

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  • Justice for All

    Dick T. Morgan, Frontier Lawyer and Common Man’s Congressman

    by Michael J. Hightower ...
    Justice for All chronicles the career of Dick T. Morgan, an Oklahoma founding father whose public service reflects a passion for fairness that was sorely lacking in Gilded Age America. After arriving in the Unassigned Lands (later, central Oklahoma) with the first wave of non-Indian settlers on April 22, 1889, Morgan developed a reputation as the go-to lawyer for land disputes, built a substantial ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • At War with Corruption

    A Biography of Bill Price, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma

    by Michael J. Hightower ...
    At War with Corruption began as a biography of Bill Price, the U.S. attorney and Republican candidate for high office who spearheaded prosecutions in the most pervasive public corruption spectacle in American history: the Oklahoma county commissioner scandal. Price’s determination to root out the rascals and restore faith in governance branded him as the biggest corruption buster in the state’s ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • 1889

    The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City

    by Michael J. Hightower ...
    After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown” to describe their new home. But the territory’s creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889, Michael J. Hightower’s ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Banking in Oklahoma Before Statehood

    by Michael J. Hightower ...
    This lively book takes Oklahoma history into the world of Wild West capitalism. It begins with a useful survey of banking from the early days of the American republic until commercial patterns coalesced in the East. It then follows the course of American expansion westward, tracing the evolution of commerce and banking in Oklahoma from their genesis to the eve of statehood in 1907.Banking in ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Banking in Oklahoma, 1907–2000

    by Michael J. Hightower ...
    The story of banking in twentieth-century Oklahoma is also the story of the Sooner State’s first hundred years, as Michael J. Hightower’s new book demonstrates. Oklahoma statehood coincided with the Panic of 1907, and both events signaled seismic shifts in state banking practices. Much as Oklahoma banks shed their frontier persona to become more tightly integrated in the national economy, so too ... Read more

    $17.99 USD