Word: tishomingo
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From a convoy of trucks carrying German prisoners of war to their quarters near by, crudely printed leaflets fluttered into the streets of Tishomingo, Okla. They proclaimed...
...Midnight Frolic, the most glamorous memory in Manhattan nightclub history. There John J. Pershing did some of his victory dancing and the jazz age got under its fanciest headway to the strains of the late Art Hickman's great band from California playing Avalon, Japanese Sandman and the Tishomingo Blues. There, after midnight, lemonades brought appalling Prohibition prices, the Follies chorus and principals entertained, and the most notable playboys of the postwar period started on their hair-losing ways...
Another character is Indian Chieftain Tishomingo, a wizard with a bullwhip, who had spent his life trying to invent a Choctaw alphabet, and succeeded. Tishomingo has some of the fabulous charm which Fenimore Cooper gave his aborigines. And the last days and death of tough old Sam Dabney skirt the edge of really good romancing, only now & then breaking bounds to snatch a slice...
...career. Defeated in politics, he went exploring through South America, where he hit upon the idea of establishing a colony of U. S. husbandmen in Bolivia. From that Government he secured a concession to 75,000 acres in El Ghan Chaco. Back in Oklahoma, he sold his Tishomingo farm, paid his debts, mustered together about 40 colonists including his own entire family and in 1924 led the way to Bolivia. The land was poor. The natives were unfriendly. Nostalgia plagued all. Within a short time every colonist except Bill Murray and his half-Indian squaw had returned despondently...
...Governor in 1910. Elected in 1912 to the House of Representatives he was beaten in 1916 because he dared to predict that President Wilson, instead of "keeping us out of War" would put us in. In 1918 he made a second futile attempt at the Governorship, then retired to Tishomingo to bide his time...