Okie is a term dating from as early as 1907, originally denoting a resident or native of Oklahoma. It is derived from the name of the state, similar to Texan or Tex for someone from Texas, or Arkie or Arkansawyer for a native of Arkansas.
In the 1930s in California, the term (often used in contempt) came to refer to very poor immigrants from Oklahoma (and nearby states). Jobs were very scarce in the 1930s but after the defense boom began in 1940 there were plenty of high paying jobs in in the shipyards and defense factories.
The "Okie" migration of the 1930s brought in over a million new displaced people; many headed to the farms in California's Central valley .
Dunbar-Ortiz (1996) argues that 'Okie' denotes much more than being from Oklahoma. By 1950, four million individuals, or one quarter of all persons born in Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, or Missouri, lived outside the region, primarily in the West. The core group of Okies are descendants of Scotch Irish who display a marked individualistic political bent. During 1906-17 many became Socialists or joined the Industrial Workers of the World, and Okies tended toward left-populism in the 1930s. Prominent Okies in the 1930s included Woody Guthrie. Most prominent in the late 1960s and 1970s were country musician Merle Haggard and writer Gerald Haslam.
Willie Hugh Nelson (pronounced /wɪli nɛlsən /; born April 30, 1933) is an American country music singer-songwriter, as well as an author, poet, actor, and activist. The critical success of the album Shotgun Willie (1973), combined with the critical and commercial success of Red Headed Stranger (1975) and Stardust (1978), made Nelson one of the most recognized artists in country music. He was one of the main figures of outlaw country, a subgenre of country music that developed at the end of the 1960s as a reaction to the conservative restrictions of the Nashville sound. Nelson has acted in over 30 films, co-authored several books, and has been involved in activism for the use of biofuels and the legalization of marijuana.
Roy Nichols (October 21, 1932 – July 3, 2001) was an American country music guitarist best known as the lead guitarist for Merle Haggard for more than two decades. He was known for his guitar technique, a mix of fingerpicking and pedal steel-like bends, usually played on a Telecaster.
Roy Ernest Nichols was born in Chandler, Arizona. His parents were Bruce and Lucille Nichols. Roy was the first born of seven children. The Nichols family moved to Fresno, California when he was 2. They owned a camp for migrant farm workers. Sometimes a traveling Gypsy band would stay at the camp. Nichols would hide and watch them play. His father Bruce played upright bass at the local dances on the weekends in the San Joaquin Valley. Nichols was interested in his father’s music. He learned three chords from his father and began playing in his father's band on the weekends when he was 11. By age 14, Nichols began playing weekends with Curly Roberts and the Rangers. This earned him $25 a week.
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When a rebellious teenager gets into trouble, Alex decides to question some of the Island's strict rules. Alex may only be fifteen, small, and naive, but she quickly realizes that she is the only one who can uncover the mystery of Peyton Island. Alex isn't in Wonderland anymore.
Keywords: island, teenager
Alex isn't in Wonderland anymore...
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Rider Kelly Cobb travels to county rodeos to win money so he can buy a patch of land he wants to call his own. He rescues trick rider Jackie Adams from the clutches of an amorous sports writer after her saloon song, and they travel together. Jackie begins falling in love with Kelly, but he doesn't seem to notice as he continues to risk life and limb for his dream, occasionally being tempted by floozies. Jackie hopes to convince a man that was born reckless to change his roaming ways.
Keywords: rodeo
And Mamie Rocks 'Em With 7 Red-Hot Reckless Tunes!
She's Every Big-Time Rodeo Prize Rolled Into One ...pair of tight pants!
And Mamie Rocks 'Em With 7 Red-Hot Reckless Tunes! She's the Wickedest Event on the Big-Time Big-Thrill Rodeo Circuit! And Mamie Rocks 'Em With 7 Red-Hot Reckless Tunes! Watch those bronc-busters try to tame Mamie!
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Biography of Charles Lindburgh from his days of precarious mail runs in aviation's infancy to his design of a small transatlantic plane and the vicissitudes of its takeoff and epochal flight from New York to Paris in 1927.
Keywords: 1920s, abbreviation-in-title, aeronautics, airmail, airplane-crash, aviation, aviation-engineer, bail-out, banker, based-on-book
The Story Behind the Story of Lindbergh's Incredible Flight to Paris!
One of the Great Advnetures of Our Time !
This was the era that belonged to young people - but mostly it belonged to a shy, lanky guy... The screen has never come so close to the heart of a man!
[first lines]::Reporter: [checking his copy] Here at the Garden City Hotel, less than a mile from Roosevelt Field... less than three-quarters of a mile from Roosevelt Field... everyone is waiting, as they have been now for seven days and nights, waiting for the rain to stop...
[last lines]::Charles Lindbergh: [narrating] There were 200,000 people there that night. And when we came back home, there were 4 million people waiting.
Charles Lindbergh: [after politely trying to smoke a cigar given to him by an investment banker] The idea of committing suicide never crossed my mind except when I took this cigar.
Charles Lindbergh: Now, I don't propose to sit on a flagpole or swallow goldfish. I'm not a stuntman; I'm a flier.
Charles Levine, President Columbia Aircraft Co.: Look, Mr. Lindbergh, I don't mean to belittle you, but, after all, New York to Paris isn't like dropping off a mail bag in Keokuk, Iowa.
Charles Lindbergh: I take up a compass heading of 65 degrees out of New York, keep correcting the heading every 100 miles.::Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.: What happens over the water?::Charles Lindbergh: Over the water I keep watching the waves, see which direction the wind's blowing in, allow for the drift...::Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.: And hope the Lord will do the rest.::Charles Lindbergh: No, I never bother the Lord. I'll do the rest.::Benjamin Frank Mahoney, President Ryan Airlines Co.: Might need a little help up there, don't you think?::Charles Lindbergh: No, it will only get in the way.
Father Hussman: How come I never see you around church? You don't believe?::Charles Lindbergh: Well, yes, I believe. I believe in an instrument panel, a pressure gauge, a compass, things I can see and touch. I can't touch God.::Father Hussman: You're not supposed to! He touches you!
Charles Lindbergh: Did you wait in the rain all night?::Mirror Girl: Yes.::Charles Lindbergh: Are you from New York [City] ?::Mirror Girl: No.::Charles Lindbergh: Long Island?::Mirror Girl: No. I'm from Philadelphia.::Charles Lindbergh: You came all the way from Philadelphia?::Mirror Girl: I had to. You needed my mirror.
Charles Lindbergh: [Mentally calculating what navigational error he can expect by the use of dead reckoning] Six miles off course. That's six miles after 200 miles of water. If I held this margin of error, how far off course would I be when I hit Ireland? Let's see, it's 1,900 miles across the Atlantic. So that would... I'd be 60 miles off at Ireland. Well, I'll settle for that. And nothing too wrong with this dead reckoning navigation... except maybe the name.
Father Hussman: [Flying - quite clumsily - in a bi-plane with Lindbergh as his instructor pilot] I've got a special prayer for landings.::Charles Lindbergh: Don't you think you need a little more than that?::Father Hussman: I also have a prayer for takeoffs, for engine trouble, for rough air, all kinds of prayers. Would you like to hear the one for landings? It's out of the Psalms.::Charles Lindbergh: No, thank you, Father.::Father Hussman: Slim, don't you ever pray?::Charles Lindbergh: Well, I don't have to, I *know* how to land.