<a href="http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/?attachment_id=12248" rel="attachment wp-att-12248"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12248" title="This Land October 15" src="http://www.tashadoestulsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/thislandoctober15.jpg" alt="This Land October 15" width="490" height="733" /></a>

<a href="http://thislandpress.com/issues/october-15-2012/" target="_blank">The Oct. 15 issue of <em>This Land</em> is on stands now</a>! We get our game on in this mid-October edition. (In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a big game Oct. 27 when Notre Dame visits OU.)

What you can expect to find inside.

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	<li><strong>IKE’S WOUNDED KNEE:</strong> Joe Medina, head football coach at Tulsa’s Cascia Hall High School, goes back to 1912, when the Dwight Eisenhower-led Army team played Jim Thorpe’s Carlisle Indian School.</li>
	<li><strong>THE TULSA IRISH:</strong> Notre Dame junior—and This Land intern—Claire Spears enlightens on the very Tulsa-sounding campus in South Bend.</li>
	<li><strong>CIVILITY IN AMERICAN POLITICS:</strong> In the spirit of bipartisanship, University of Oklahoma President David Boren throws up a political “Hail, Mary!” while his Notre Dame counterpart, President John I. Jenkins, lays out a playbook for the Golden Rule.</li>
	<li><strong>ROCKET TO THE MOON:</strong> Holly Wall profiles surprise Congressional candidate Jim Bridenstine.</li>
	<li><strong>THE LIFE AND DEATH OF A CHOCTAW WITCH KILLER:</strong> We revisit Solomon Hotema’s early 1900s murder of three Choctaw Indians via press accounts from the University of Oklahoma’s Western History Collections.</li>
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Look also for details on these Oklahoma events on the DO WHAT page (which is a real beaut, thanks to <em>This Land</em> designer David Duncan:
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	<li><strong>Tulsa Oktoberfest</strong>. Consistently rated as one of the best places in the U.S. to stock up on bratwurst and Bavarian cheesecake, in the city that claims it gave birth to the Chicken Dance. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/events/oktoberfest/" target="_blank">Tulsa Oktoberfest details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
	<li><strong>Nightmare in the Country</strong>. As if a zombie invasion weren’t enough, clowns and undead miners and mental patients are also stalking poor Woodward, Oklahoma. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/okc/events/nightmare-in-the-country-oct-18/" target="_blank">Nightmare in the Country details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
	<li><strong>Walkaround</strong>. Like a parade at a standstill, what’s been called America’s greatest homecoming celebration. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/okc/events/osu-homecoming-walkaround/" target="_blank">Walkaround details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
	<li><strong>Poteau Balloonfest</strong>. Monster trucks, pistoliers, BBQ, mud pit races, and red dirt music: It’s where everything good about Oklahoma comes together, under a canopy of glowing hot-air balloons. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/events/poteau-balloonfest/" target="_blank">Poteau Balloonfest details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
	<li><strong>Rocktober</strong>. Got four-wheel drive? How's your ground clearance? Head south to put your off-roader to the test. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/events/rocktober/" target="_blank">Rocktober details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
	<li><strong>Halloween Festival at The Castle</strong>. Pirates, pumpkins, and Halloween inflatables, oh my! Plus a little something called the Fright Combo package, all on the grounds of Oklahoma’s very own medieval castle. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/events/halloween-festival-at-the-castle-of-muskogee-oct-19/" target="_blank">Halloween Festival at The Castle details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
	<li><strong>Harvest of Fear</strong>. Get lost in Oklahoma’s largest corn “maize,” featured in the national press when the folks there thought it fitting to mow a 35-acre, Oklahoma City Thunder-inspired mural into the fields. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/okc/events/harvest-of-fear/" target="_blank">Harvest of Fear details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
	<li><strong>Sasquatch Sightings Hayride</strong>. An after-dusk, 40-minute hayride through Arrowhead State Park, where the marshmallows are included with the $5 price of admission and boy scouts in Sasquatch costumes lie in wait in the shadows. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/events/sasquatch-sightings-hayride/" target="_blank">Sasquatch Sightings Hayride details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
	<li><strong>A Voice Was Sounding: A This Land Book Launch</strong>. We’re proud to introduce the first edition of our fall series of books as part of this special evening, featuring local music, local writers, and the collection of reports, essays, fiction, and poetry from This Land volumes one and two that we’re calling <em>A Voice Was Sounding: The stories of Middle America</em>. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/events/this-land-book-launch-party/" target="_blank">A Voice Was Sounding details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
	<li><strong>FREAK NIGHT with The Flaming Lips</strong>. A free show from the band that gave us our official state rock song that does triple duty as the last hurrah for the OKC Zoo Amphitheatre, a event that’s sure to be in the running for the largest costume party in the midwest. <a href="http://dowhat.thislandpress.com/okc/events/flaming-lips-costume-party/" target="_blank">FREAK NIGHT with the Flaming Lips details at DO WHAT</a>.</li>
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So: Where will we see you cuddled up with the latest edition of <em>This Land</em>? And where will we see you out and about in Oklahoma this month?