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Dec 01, 1921 Died on 01 Jan 1987 (aged 65)
American historian
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About Arrell Gibson
- Arrell Morgan Gibson was a historian and author specializing in the history of the state of Oklahoma.
- He was born in Pleasanton, KS on December 1, 1921.
- He earned degrees from Missouri Southern State College and the University of Oklahoma.
- He is best known for writing Oklahoma: A History of Five Centuries (University of Oklahoma Press 1965, 1981) and The Oklahoma Story (University of Oklahoma Press 1978).
- He died in Norman, OK on November 30, 1987.
- There have been two literary awards created in Gibson's honor.
- The Oklahoma Center For The Book grants its Arrell Gibson Lifetime Achievement Award annually to an Oklahoman for a body of literary work. The Indian Territory Posse of Westerners International awards a $500 cash prize annually to the year's best essay on the history of Native Americans.
