The University of Oklahoma, 1890–2015
by
Ms. Anne Barajas Harp
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
David Ross Boyd stepped off the train in Norman, Oklahoma, on August 6, 1892, and looked toward the southwest. “There was not a tree or shrub in sight,” wrote the former Kansas school superintendent just hired to serve as the University of Oklahoma’s first president. “Behind me was a crude...