Understanding Minnie Atkins-Folk
“Empires preserve their power with the stories that they tell, but just as critical are the stories they don't-the dark silences they impose, the pages they tear.” --David Grann, The Wager
Minnie’s story was torn out of the official history of Charles Page’s oil empire, and the story of the Oil Capital more generally. When I wrote Ghosts of Crook County, I wanted to know as much as I could about her.
Fortunately, she left a record of things, of various places she was in the United States and also abroad, from Cuba to the Philippines. Now, …
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