Banking In Oklahoma CSRHC Brown Bag

    Improve listing Presented by

Bring your lunch and join us for the February Brown Bag Lunch & Learn with author, Michael J. Hightower, PhD. Dr. Hightower will speak about his new book.

Hightower’s first of three books on banking and commerce in Oklahoma begins with banking in the early national period (1781-1864), when commercial processes joined in the East and followed the course of westward expansion, and ends on the eve of Oklahoma statehood in 1907. Topics range from the riverboat trade and freighting on the Santa Fe Trail to bartering, merchant banking, and the creation of banks that quickly became the bedrock of commercial culture in the Oklahoma and Indian Territories.

Dr. Hightower taught sociology at the University of Virginia and Washington and Lee University en route to becoming an author and historian. As a descendant of pioneer businessmen in the Oklahoma Territory and one-time cowboy in the Southwest, he researches and writes about the history of the American frontier, banking, and commerce.