The Oregon Trail: An American Saga by David Dary (Knopf, 414 pp., $35). In the mid-nineteenth century, the Oregon Trail was one of the principal overland routes from the Missouri River to the Pacific ...

OKLAHOMA CITY -- David Dary and James P. Pappas of the University of Oklahoma will be inducted into the Oklahoma Higher Education Hall of Fame Oct. 7. Dary served as head of what is now called Gaylord ...

One of Kansas' best storytellers has died. The funeral service for David Dary — longtime journalist, professor, storyteller and historian — will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at St. John's Episcopal Church, ...

Jonathan Kirsch, a contributing writer to Book Review, is the author of, most recently, "God Against the Gods: The History of the War Between Monotheism and Polytheism." At least two notions have ...

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NORMAN, OK — David Dary, a respected journalist and prolific author who shepherded the OU journalism program's transition from a school to its own degree-granting college, died Thursday after a brief ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Chapter One INDIAN MEDICINE Wisdom begins in wonder. -Socrates May is a delightful time to visit the Wichita Mountains in southwestern Oklahoma. The little ...

Scurvy, contaminated water and challenging environments were among the medical problems faced by frontier settlers, who resorted to the rough-and-ready treatments of herbal and traditional medicines, ...

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