Warren S. Cushman Warren S. Cushman (1845–1926) was a multifaceted American artist who, after serving in the Civil War, became a respected painter, sculptor, and photographer. While he is noted for a period of artistic activity in Logan Count the details of his time there are not well-documented. However, his life is marked by a return to his native Ohio, a flourishing artistic career that gained national recognition, and a unique, self-made monument that serves as his final

in the whispered memories Shawnee history, where the echoes of 18th-century battlefields fade into the sermons of 19th-century mission halls, few figures bridge the gap as profoundly as Rev. Charles Bluejacket. Born in 1817 as the grandson of the legendary Shawnee war chief Blue Jacke, whose cunning raids against American settlers during the Northwest Indian Wars earned him a place in frontier lore, Charles forged a path not of tomahawk and treaty, but of Bible and bridge-bui

The senior class motto at Sallisaw High School in 1995 was "Take it to the Limit!, a fitting sendoff for the ambitious graduates, including one bright young woman among the 131 seniors who dreamed of building a fresh start far from her Oklahoma roots. Tragically, Tina Michelle Payton's promising future was cut short less than two years later, when she was murdered in her new home in DeKalb County, Alabama. On November 3, 1997, the 19-year-old's semi-nude body was discovered o