Welcome to the Bristow Historical Society's website for our ongoing oral history project, "Telling Our Stories." For a complete index of our currently available oral histories, please click on "Telling Our Stories" in the header bar above.
On this website you will find audio files and accompanying transcripts of oral histories collected by our organization dating back to the 1970s and continuing through the current date. We are constantly working on this project, transcribing older oral histories as well as collecting new ones, so check back often for new histories.
For inquiries and questions, please contact us at (918) 367-9335, or visit our location in the historic Frisco Depot at 1 Railroad Place, Bristow, Oklahoma. We are staffed fully by volunteers and admission is free.
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Arthur Foster
Arthur Foster recounts the history of Slick, Oklahoma, established in 1920 due to an oil boom named after Tom Slick. By the mid-1920s, Slick's…
Will Parish
Willard Franklin Parish, born June 30, 1941, in Bristow, Oklahoma, shared his life story with Debbie Blansett for the Bristow Historical Society's…
Odell Alexander
Odell Alexander, born August 4, 1953, in Creek County, Oklahoma, shared his life story with Georgia Smith. Odell's parents, Myrtle Hines Alexander and…
Lucille Qualls
Lucille Qualls recounts the early history of Bristow, Oklahoma, starting with the Frisco Railroad's extension in 1898 and the establishment of the…
Janet Wilson
Janet Wilson was born September 29, 1950, in Cushing, Oklahoma. Janet's parents were Bessie Marie Falmo McMurtry and Bobby Eugene McMurtry. She moved…