1927 MY OKLAHOMA. Scarce Early Oklahoma Magazine - Aggies, Sooners, Cotton, Poetry, Etc.

Very scarce near complete entire first year of a rare early Oklahoman publication; no copies on the market at present. Almost entirely original content by early Oklahoman poets, authors, illustrators, etc. 

La Moore, Parker [ed.]. My Oklahoma. Volume 1. Numbers 1-11. Oklahoma City. Oklahomans Inc. 1927. 

Contents include:

1.1. Black Gold. A Poem by Jennie Harris Gold [on Oil] | Oklahoma's Betsy Ross - The War Shield of Ta-Wa-Hie Motif of Louise Funk Fluke and Her Design of the State Flag | Friendly Laws and Chap Power with Abundant Raw Material Invites More Cotton Mills | Miss Oklahoma [article, including her measurements from ankle to neck] | Oklahoma's Oil Production is now Topping All of United States | April in Oklahoma by Lena Whittaker Blakeney | Peanut Possibilities in Oklahoma by Harry B. Cordell | Stop There by Maurine Halliburton McGee | The Land of Gold by Elizabeth Coulson | Lover's Leap. A Legend by Irma Celestine Heard | Interesting Olkahomans - Oscar Brousse Jacobson | etc.

1.2 Cover by Stephen Mopope | Oklahoma Skies by Terry Moore | The Retreat of the Pie Counter by Parker LaMoore | Stephen Mopope of the Kiowas Contributes to Indian Art in Oklahoma | Cherokee Bill by William Arthur Flowers | Oil Optimism by Charles E. Bowles | The Trail of Jesse Chishom Blazoned Today by Smoke Wisps - In the Wake of the Air Mail | Fifteen Year Old Tishominogo Poet Believes in Faires who Dance in Clover Rings | Injun Giver by Paul Eldridge and Harriet Montague | Golf to the Front - Golf. An Oklahoma Pastime | Choctaw's Treasure - The Legend of Wha-She-Ta-Ha and the Willow Staff by Tarlton A. Jenkins | Tulsa's Rose Carnival | Interesting Oklahomans - Vingie E. Roe, Paolo Conte | Clarence A. Dalton | etc.

1.3 Major League Baseball by Fred Jay | Sequoyah by Herbert C. Anderson | Canoeing Down the Illinois by James D. Averyt | Two Aspiring Young Intellectual are Perpetrators of Plains' Ballads' Hoax | The Lonesome Indian Chant by Ben D. Locke | Oklahoma Baptist University | The Laughin' Fish by Stanley Vestal | Catch the Criminal by Parker La Moore | Portrait of a Parlour by Lillian Fryer Rainey | John Golobie is Dead by Parker La Moore | Black Jack Davy by John Milton Oskison | Major League Baseball | Sequoyah - Cadmus of the Indians | etc.

1.4 Cover by Jean Johnston | The Wichitas by Lena Whittaker Blakeney | The Music and the Dream by Jennie Harris Oliver [Amos Hill, Regent of the Colored University] Ed Gallagher - Oklahoma Coach of the Olympic Wrestling Team | A White Man Would Develop an Indian Nation by Julia Rochelle | Ponca City's Baby Rodeo by Corb Sarchet | Oklahoma Poets, Inc. by B. A. Botkin | About Indian Music | etc.

1.5 Cover by Leonard Whitney | The Fisherman by Winnie Lewis Gravitt | Hick Town. A Short Story by Altha Leah Bass | The Delaware Tribe by Roberta Campbell Lawson | The New Road by Leo Turner | Growing Pecans by Wesley Dickey | Steve Mopope and a Kiowa Art Exhibit | The Burden of Slavery | Te-Ata of the Chickasaws | Crenia Sandler - Norman Student Recalls Dark Hours when Terror Reigned during Russia's Revolution by Hermione Barker | etc.

1.6 Cover by Leonard Whitney | Modern Genii by Frances Gorman Risser | Howdy by Ernest W. Fair | Woolaroc Lodge by Betty Kirk | The Osage - The Richest Nation in the World - That is the Proud Title of the Osage by M. L. Wardell | The Cherokee Strip by Corb Sarchet | Cupid's Wave Length by John Bunyan Turner | Life in Oklahoma by Charles N. Gould | An Interview with an Outlaw by Ruby Eleanora Cummins | etc.

1.7 Cover by Leonard Whitney | Duck Days by Walter W. Mills | Hunting in the Future by Ray O. Weems | Good Medicine by Orin L. Crain | Tahlequah - Capital of the Cherokee Nation by S. W. Ross | Direct Legislation by Fred Reisling | The Marland Hunt by Emerson G. Smith | A Farm Wife Watches the Train Go By by William Cunningham | Nashoba by Kiamichi | etc.

1.8 Cover by Leonard Whitney | Indian Summer by Anne McClure | White Antelope and His Faith in Uncle Sam by Mrs. Tom B. Ferguson | Can a Woman Love her Home and Her Office? by Nellie Berry | The Poultry Show at Pawhuska | Aggie Traits by Harvey Wilder Bentley | Armistice Day by Parker LaMoore | A Wolf Hunt by Madeline Gwynne | Lynn Riggs - Poet-Playwright by B. A. Botkin | Oklahoma Poets - People of the Backwater. Poems by Lynn Riggs | My Friend Glyptodon and His Pals [Dinosaurs] by Charles N. Gould | A Pecan Show | etc.

1.9 Cover by Edward Henderson | The Pioneer Woman by Ivanora McElroy | Oil History by Charles E. Bowles | A Sooner's Christmas by Dora Sanders Thompson | Natural Gasoline by Frank Phillips | Observations of an Oklahoma School Teacher by Winnie Jones | Tulsa - The Magic City by Omer K. Benedict | A Warning Sound on the Subject of Governmental Regulation by James A. Veasey | Elizabeth Ball - Dream Singer by B. A. Botkin | Songs of Silence by Elizabeth Ball | etc.

1.10 Cover by Edward Henderson | Quest by Frances Gorman Risser | Mrs. J. R. Dale and the State Library Commission by Mary Hays Marable | Referendum No. 51 by W. R. Estes | Father Murrow - Last of the Ante-Bellum Missionaries by W. B. Morrison | Sholom Alechem - The Play Organization of the Oil Industry | Oklahoma Poets by B. A. Bodkin | Ballads of the Old West by Stanley Vestal [ Kit Carson - Ghosts - Deadwood, etc.] | Golden Eagle by R. C. Tate | etc.

1.11 Home Products at Okmulgee | Big Bill Skelly of Skelly Oil Company by Lucy May Marquis | Devil's Den by Parker LaMore | The Grand Opera in Tulsa | etc. etc. etc.

Old plain buckram binding with some wear, a bit shaken at prelims and rears. Early ownership inscription "To Robert Harper Bowles from Charles E. Bowles, Tulsa" Charles Bowles was a contributor to the present volume.