White Bear Clan Tanner Oaks

Action packed western of the 1890's where the old adage was one Ranger could handle any job. When any law enforcement person pin their badge on they are putting their life on the line for you and me. These are individuals that want to help the people of our great nation and help to keep the laws of our land. They bring justice for everyone and even though it may seem that they aren't doing their jobs, at times, they are the only thing standing between the criminals of this world and you and me. Tanner Oaks (Ta Noaks) was a full blood Comanche Indian. His band of Comanche tribes men were the first on the Fort Sill reservation. Tanner Oaks received a white mans education at Fort Sill Indian Territory Of Oklahoma and was sent to a college in Tennessee for his education of higher learning. When he returned to the reservation, finding his people starving to death from bad food or no food furnished by the agency, he took his immediate family that was still alive and headed west.

In the American west of the late 1800's and early 1900,s many law men wore more than one badge to up hold justice. These badges presented on the same day to both men. Tanner Oaks (Ta Noaks) was a full blood Comanche Indian. His band of Comanche tribes men were the first on the Fort Sill reservation. Tanner Oaks received a white mans education at Fort Sill and was sent to a college in Tennessee for his education of higher learning. When he returned to the reservation, finding his people starving to death from bad food or no food furnished by the agency, he took his immediate family that was still alive and headed west. With the aid of his friend they started the Bell Ranch raising Appaloosa and Mustang horses. There was a lot of holdout Indians that came to live on the Bell Ranch. Along with Tanners friends the Ranch became a reality.

Black Thorn was a self schooled man in the facts of life. He masterminded the largest train robbery of the early 1900âs. His father had married a woman, supposed to be a Creek Indian, who was the daughter of a Freedman slave of the Creek Nation. His father had run Thorn and his sister off from home because he didnât want anything to do with having half Black children. Thorns adventures and holdups that he was involved in up to the 1910. He found what he thought was true love, bought a homestead, and built the nicest house in fifty miles.

When most people hear the word Oklahoma, they think about the Oklahoma Land Run, cowboys and Indians, and the oil boom, however, they do not realize that there are many treasures that were lost throughout history in the state of Oklahoma.Things told and remembered of outlaw gold but none has ever been reported are supposedly recovered. Even though there has been hundreds of moneys recovered that could have been outlaw gold that has been reported. The following items have never been recovered or reported.Some of the lost treasures have no exact location. The owners just knew that while traveling through the Oklahoma territory their treasures disappeared, mainly because they forgot where they hide the money. One such incident is the story of an Atoka cattleman. All of his gold was lost in Oklahoma most likely close to Atoka. Whether he buried his gold or in fact lost the gold, no one knows for sure.

Joe Helms received a grant while at the University of Maryland. He was on a quest to find lost treasures and artifacts of the Spanish explorers who came up from Mexico to travel through what is Now Texas, Oklahoma, and into Colorado. In the 1890's Joe Helms set out on his quest and found more than he bargained for. The University sent Joe a letter telling him that he no longer held a grant or was employed by them. It was not long afterward that Joe made the biggest discovery of his life and became a rich man. Even though he had every thing that he had ever wanted he was still haunted by not finding out more about the old Spanish Settlement at Devils Canyon.