Review of Roadside History of Oklahoma

Authors

Brad Bays, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Date of this Version

1993

Document Type

Article

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 13:1 (Winter 1993). Copyright © 1993 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

Writing local history for the general reader requires a harmonization of scholarship and literary skill. Roadside History of Oklahoma at best provides stereotypical entertainment at the expense of regional coherence, accuracy, and pluralistic interpretation