Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Ben Carnes / Choctaw Indian / Inmate McAlester Prison"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Julius D. Bohannon"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Capt. B. E. Mann, McAlester, Prison Security Captain"

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Norman Ward"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company.

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "John L. Pepper Martin, who gained fame as a baseball player with the old St. Louis Cardinals Gas House Gang, will be a candidate for a state political office."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "John Leonard "Pepper" Martin, the immortal "Wild Horse of the Osage" of the old St. Louis cardinals gas house gang, is keeping busy working on his 960-acre ranch a mile south of Featherston-west of Quinton."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "George Kimes . . He picks the best stock."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "CONVICTED SLAYER Gerald "Jute" Pate leaves the Pittsburg County courthouse Tuesday after the first day of a sanity hearing, which was expected to reach a district court jury Wednesday."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "An inmate in action at McAlester prison rodeo."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Inmates from the state penitentiary go hog wild during the "Milk the Wild Cow" event at this weekend's annual prison rodeo at McAlester."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Water influences the art of New Jersey native, Joanne Schiavone of McAlester. Her handmade books and screens will be exhibited in the 1993 Festival of American Folklife at the Smithsonian Institution."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Acid-free, high-quality paper is used in Joanne Schiavone's handmade books, One of her folding screens recently won Best in Show at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival in Florida"

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Natural arch near McAlester in Pittsburg Co."

Photograph of district supervisor Harry Stiers with some of his 23 head of shorthorn and Jersey cows on Bermuda Kobe lespedeza pasture. This old cultivated field was retired and sodded to Bermuda 3 years ago. Last year, after flat-breaking, discing and harrowing, it was overseeded to Kobe lespedeza. The diversion terraces near where Mr. Stiers is standing protects the cultivated land below. Stiers said he “need[ed] to farm between the gullies” before he retired the 28 of his 60 cultivated acres. OK-8825.

Photograph of District Supervisor Harry Stiers with some of his 25 head of shorthorn and Jersey cows on Bermuda Kobe lespedeza pasture. This old cultivated field was retired and sodded to Bermuda grass 3 years ago. Last year, after flat-breaking, discing and harrowing, it was overseeded to Kobe lespedeza. The diversion terrace near where Mr. Stiers is standing protects the cultivated land below. Stiers said he “used to farm between the gullies,” before he retired the 28 of his 60 cultivated acres. OK-8825.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Inmates from the state penitentiary go hog wild during the "Milk the Wild Cow" event at this weekend's annual prison rodeo at McAlester."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "An inmate in action at McAlester prison rodeo."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Mr. and Mrs. Gary Miller and their sons, Darin and Stacy, keep airport vigil."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Joe Hawkins - Secretary to Warden Ray Page - McAlester Prison."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper.