LIQUID GOLD: THE OIL BOOM

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm
| Location of Session: Hawn Holt Family Auditorium
Adult Sessions

Start of Signing: 4:30 pm
| Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

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About the Event

Historian and fourth-generation Oklahoman Russell Cobb tracks 20th century court cases and the burgeoning oil industry in Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land. Cobb chronicles land-grabbing, greed, and the legacy of a boy who may never have existed in this part-history, part-true crime. This session will be perfect for fans of David Grann’s The Killers of the Flower Moon.

About the Author

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Russell Cobb

Russell Cobb, a fourth-generation white Oklahoman, is professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta and the author of The Great Oklahoma Swindle, which won the 2021 Director’s Award in the Oklahoma Book Awards. His journalism has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Slate, The Nation, and on NPR. His reporting for This American Life was turned into the film Come Sunday, distributed by Netflix. He is also the host of History X, a podcast about buried histories and nonfiction mysteries, broadcast on 88.5FM in Edmonton, Canada, and across all major podcast platforms. His latest book is Ghosts of Crook County: An Oil Fortune, a Phantom Child, and the Fight for Indigenous Land.

Moderator

Gilbert Garcia

Gilbert Garcia is a former columnist for the San Antonio Express-News. Over his 30-year journalism career, he has won awards for his writing on politics, music, sports and religion. He is the author of the 2012 book, Reagan’s Comeback: Four Weeks in Texas That Changed American Politics Forever and had one of his stories included in the Da Capo Press anthology, Best Music Writing 2001.