I have enjoyed John Brooks Walton's series on Historic Tulsa Homes, but recently I came across Black Dog & Leventhal publishers' 1000 Buildings of... series on London, Paris, and New York. I am slowly putting together one for our area - not necessarily for them to publish, but maybe for a standalone Web project - with all of the usual buildings included, of course, but expanding the scope to cover all manner of manmade things that make Green Country more fully special than it otherwise could be.
However, I have mostly only visited the cities here. Grand Lake? Tenkiller? Oologah? Never been. Besides Woolaroc I don't know any neat old homeplaces in the country that make it more a home. I haven't seen Muskogee very well, haven't explored any of the ins and outs of Tahlequah or Claremore. I would bet that there are a hundred hidden jewels I've missed.
So I'm enlisting your knowledge base. Buildings, sure, but - more than that - anything we here have cultivated, be it collections, gardens, nonprofit organizations of no specific architectural distinction, events, programs, artistic masterpieces, or just some complete wildcard that makes this part of the world more of itself.
If you want to go explore the back roads for a while before you let 'er rip, so much the better. I want this to be as wholly representative a thousand as can be, and thanks in advance for your help.
The bunkhouse that was the ranch base for the cowboys who worked on the ranch that is now the Tallgrass Prairie. Not exotic, but a very interesting building.
