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In this 2020 interview, Edgar Spencer shares his experience growing up in the Bristow area. He discusses the many businesses and segregation.

Etta Feild Caves discusses her move to Oklahoma from Mississippi at age 10, early Bristow days, her family, school, church, early transportation and her community involvement.

In this 1976 interview, Floyd Luther Blythe (1911-1994) briefly discusses some early family history outside Cato, Missouri.

Mr. Krumme shares about his life as a youngster growing up and going to school in the Okemah, Tuskegee and Bristow area. He talks about attending college and joining the service, as well as, returning home to start his career at Krumme Oil Company. …

In this 1986 interview, Harry Britt McCarty (1903-1987) discusses the locations of different McCarty family cemeteries in Texas and the names/genealogy and deaths of relatives.

In this 1979 interview with Herbert Abraham, he talks in depth about the Lebanese community and his father, Joe Abraham, and his life and contribution to Bristow's history. He also recalls his childhood growing up in Bristow, the Ku Klux Klan,…

In this 1993 interview with Howard Fugate, he talks about using wagon teams to haul boilers, oil men, living in Bristow, his children, livery stables, attending school, cotton gins and the drugstores in town.

In this continued 1993 interview with Howard Fugate, he talks more in depth about all the different oil field items, among other things, that he hauled with his wagon team.

In this 1979 interview with Hyatt Chapman, he and Harlan Krumme discuss his Chandler homestead, the Bristow jail, school life, his grandfather, teaming contractors for the oil industry, Dad Senter, Tol Foster, Alfalfa Bill Murry and a host of other…

In this 2021 interview, J C Hutson talks about growing up in the Bristow area. He discusses his time in the military and owning the Bristow Tire Shop.