University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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NATIVE OKLA ' i i

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THE Trologue SOONER 1936 Being Our Reasons for this | Edition of the Sooner The rambling streams, rolling prairies and rugged mountains of Oklahoma are endowments rich in beauty and romance bestown upon her by Nature, unrecognized by many and seldom called to the attention of we who live among them. Vagabonding along highways which crisscross the state; treading across plains into an un- fathomable horizon; struggling along vine bordered streams; wandering beneath trees old at the time of La Salle, Choteau, Du Tisne and Mallett causes one to realize the indifference with which we reside in the land of the Indian. If our ideal could be actuated, we would take our readers into each valley, on top of each mountain, through every wooded area; we would let them wander aimlessly along paths tread by the founders of our State; we would cause them to absorb the magnitude of Na- ture ' s gift and revere forever God ' s artistry, and listen to praises which would be forihcoming. But, since our ideal is impossible, we have chosen this means of bringing to you, in pictures and words, a meas- ure of the beauty that is ours in the hope that more will be known by all of the magnificence of the Land of the Mistletoe. • Copyright 1936 CHARLES FOLLANSBEE Editor ALLAN ENGLEMAN Manager UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA Norman

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HOMA Born of mountain springs annid the rugged crags of the Arbuckle and Wichita Mountains, located in southwestern Oklahoma, clear streams tumble and wind their tortuous way through primitive wildness glorious in the beauty which attracts to such play- grounds as Turner Falls, above, and Medicine Creek, on the opposite page