Clyda R. Franks
Clyda R. Franks graduated from Reserve Peace Officers Academy, where she was a certified law officer.
2018
2401 Egypt Road Ada, Oklahoma 74820, United States
Clyda R. Franks and her husband Kenny Arthur Franks.
Clyda R. Franks graduated from Reserve Peace Officers Academy, where she was a certified law officer.
(Tulsa, Oklahoma, "the oil capital of the world," has a lo...)
Tulsa, Oklahoma, "the oil capital of the world," has a long and varied history. Evidence of a possible Norse presence dates to 1000 A.D. An ancient people known as the Mound Builders populated the area, then disappeared just prior to the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the 1540s. Osage Indians, as well as other members of the Five Tribes, called this part of Oklahoma home. French trappers made a brief appearance. Finally, outlaws like "Pretty Boy" Floyd and "Machine Gun" Kelly cooled their heels in Tulsa while running from the law in the 1930s. What Tulsa is really known for, however, is oil. The discovery of oil fields in Tulsa at the turn of the century caused an economic and social revolution. The formerly small town became a center of power, and fortunes worth millions of dollars were gained and lost. J. Paul Getty got his start in Tulsa along with his father, who was one of the first to ride Tulsa's tsunami-like oil wave. The town boomed through the 20s and 30s, and oil money built the town of Tulsa into the city it is today. Tulsa currently hosts a population of 380,000 people, and, in honor of its oil legacy, is home to one of the most prominent petroleum schools in the world.
https://www.amazon.com/Tulsa-Where-Streets-Images-America/dp/0738507814
2000
(As a state, Oklahoma is young. Admitted to the Union in 1...)
As a state, Oklahoma is young. Admitted to the Union in 1907, Oklahoma statehood predates only four other states: New Mexico, Arizona, Alaska, and Hawaii. But the land that would become Oklahoma is old, and the area has a venerable history and pre-history that is rich in fascinating people and dramatic events. Historic Oklahoma examines the geology and pre-historic animals and people that occupied the region. Later the area was caught up in the struggle for empire between England, France, and Spain, while vast herds of bison and various tribes of Native Americans roamed across the land. With the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, the region became part of the United States, and a great drama of exploration, forced settlement of numerous Indian tribes, the establishment of the Indian Nations and Oklahoma Territory, a Civil War, the range cattle industry, land runs and land lotteries, coal mining, railroad building, oil and gas exploration, and statehood movements took place. Throughout the 20th century, Oklahoma's history has been no less dramatic. Drawing on a deep well of pride, optimism, and determination, Oklahomans have overcome both natural and man-made disasters, rebounding in each instance to build a better state and quality of life. The people of Oklahoma have been prepared well by their heritage, if they choose to study and preserve it, to meet the challenges of the new millennium.
https://www.amazon.com/Historic-Oklahoma-Illustrated-Paul-Lambert/dp/1893619044
2000
(Man's enduring search for quick riches and hidden wealth ...)
Man's enduring search for quick riches and hidden wealth led directly to the rush for "black gold" in the Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century. By 1907, when the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory joined to become the state of Oklahoma, the era of the big-money oil industry had been launched. During the first four decades of the twentieth century, Oklahoma produced four-billion barrels of crude valued at over $5 billion-more value than all minerals extracted from California or Colorado. This massive rush also created a new generation of boomtowns, attracting a myriad of honest merchants, gamblers, workers, thieves, millionaires, and prostitutes who competed side-by-side for their share of the riches. From this turmoil came both thriving communities and ghost towns. Ponca City and Kay County Boom Towns captures that exciting era in vintage photographs and anecdotes of the brothels and burning oil fields, the lawmen and outlaws, and the businesses and workers who made up these boomtowns.
https://www.amazon.com/Ponca-County-Towns-Images-America/dp/0738519707
2002
(Pawnee County is unique among Oklahoma's counties. It rep...)
Pawnee County is unique among Oklahoma's counties. It represents a microcosm of the state's culture and heritage. Like Oklahoma, Pawnee County is divided in half by the cross timbers: to the east are woodlands and lakes, and to the west are the short grass country and the Great Plains. The eastern half of the county was a part of the old Oklahoma Territory and is filled with lake homes that serve as a bedroom community for Tulsa, while the legacy of the Wild West lives in western Pawnee County, home of the Pawnee Bill Memorial Rodeo. A vibrant agriculture and cattle economy made the county an economic center of the Oklahoma Territory. Then came oil and a rush of fortune seekers. Thousands of wells produced millions of dollars in black gold, as tens of thousands of oilmen rushed to the region, along with gamblers, con men, prostitutes, bootleggers, and other ne'er-do-wells. From this colorful legacy, modern Pawnee County emerged.
https://www.amazon.com/Pawnee-County-Images-America-Reeves-Franks/dp/1467114715
2015
Ethnicity:
Clyda R. Franks is of Cherokee-Irish-French descent.
Clyda R. Franks was born as Clyda Ruth on September 9, 1946, in Pawnee, Oklahoma, United States. She is the daughter of Clyde C. Goodson, a house painter and Euladean R. Goodson (maiden name Lewis, later surname Redman), a postal worker and writer.
Clyda R. Franks graduated from Reserve Peace Officers Academy, where she was a certified law officer. Clyda also studied interior design in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Clyda R. Franks went into the newspaper business at age eighteen, eventually becoming an editor of a small weekly newspaper in her hometown. She wrote numerous humorous articles and columns. Clyda was a Red Fork Community Improvement Organization's chair in 1968, and a Cleveland Area Chamber of Commerce's member of the board of directors from 1989 to 1992, serving as its president from 1992 to 1993, and as a member of the industrial development committee, 1992-1993. Clyda R. Franks has worked for twelve years as an editor, reporter, and photographer at Cleveland American newspaper, Cleveland, Oklahoma from 1980 to 1992. In 1992 Clyda R. Franks was an administrative assistant at First National Bank of Pawnee, a director of public information and organizer of art shows at Pawnee Historical and Cultural Museum (1994). Beginning from 1990 she worked at the Pawnee County Sheriff's Department as a reserve deputy sheriff, then from 1994 at the City of Cleveland Police Division as a reserve police officer, and became an associate advisor at Law Enforcement Explorer Post, 1995-1999.
Clyda began doing historical research and writing after marrying Kenny A. Franks, who has a Doctor of Philosophy in history. She has published Tulsa: Where the Streets Were Paved With Gold (2000), Ponca City and Kay County Boom Towns (2002), and her latest book Pawnee County (2015). Clyda Franks was a contributing editor to the magazine Offıcer, 1993-1995, and a book review editor of Oklahoma (1996). Franks has also contributed to books, including Historic Oklahoma: An Illustrated History (2000) as well as to articles and reviews to magazines and newspapers, including Overdrive, Homelife, Oklahoma: Magazine of the Oklahoma Heritage Association, Oklahoma Today, Chronicles of Oklahoma, and Quiet Time Report.
Clyde R. Franks is an award-winning and prolific author of Oklahoma history who has a keen sense of the nostalgia of her state's oil legacy. Her publications include Tulsa: Where the Streets Were Paved With Gold, Ponca City and Kay County Boom Towns, and Pawnee County. She is also a contributor to numerous books including Historic Oklahoma: An Illustrated History, magazine, and newspaper articles such as Overdrive, Homelife, Oklahoma: Magazine of the Oklahoma Heritage Association, Oklahoma Today, Chronicles of Oklahoma, and Quiet Time Report, and Officer. Franks has received a certificate of recognition from the International Reserve Law Officers Association in 1992, was named an Honorary Chief by National Association of Chiefs of Police (1995), and became a member of the American Police Hall of Fame in 1995.
(Man's enduring search for quick riches and hidden wealth ...)
2002(Tulsa, Oklahoma, "the oil capital of the world," has a lo...)
2000(Pawnee County is unique among Oklahoma's counties. It rep...)
2015(As a state, Oklahoma is young. Admitted to the Union in 1...)
2000Quotations: "Writing has always been a part of my life, beginning with my diary, then punishment themes at school for talking."
Clyda R. Franks loves writing. Her mother was a writer, and there were always books and a typewriter available in her house.
Clyda R. Franks married Donald L. Reeves on May 14, 1965. He died on September 22, 1994. Later Clyda married Kenny Arthur Franks, a writer, and a history teacher on July 16, 1996. She has two children from the first marriage: Christopher West and Jason Andrew.
