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    Guy Logsdon: Award-winning Folklorist
    Guy Logsdon: Award-winning Folklorist
    Guy Logsdon: Award-winning Folklorist
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    Guy Logsdon: Award-winning Folklorist

    By Stan Paregien

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    Guy W. Logsdon grew up in Ada, OK. He graduated from Ada High School, from East Central State University, and worked in two of the family businesses in Ada ( a furniture store and a Western wear store) before becoming the owner of the former Stall Photography Studio.

    He went on to earn a doctorate, to become a folklore professor at the University of Tulsa, and to become the leading authority on Woody Guthrie's life and music, on Western swing music and two of its principle performers (Bob Wills and Johnnie Lee Wills), and an expert on traditional (and bawdy) cowboy music.

    His long list of publications includes such books as Woody's Road with Woody Guthrie's only living sibling, Mary Jo Guthrie Edgmon (2012); and with Marvin E. Kroeker, Logsdon wrote, Ada, Oklahoma, Queen City of the Chickasaw Nation: A Pictorial History (1998). With co-writers Mary Rogers and William Jacobson, Logsdon wrote, Saddle Serenaders (1995). By himself he wrote, The University of Tulsa: A History, 1882-1972 (1977) and "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing"and Other Songs Cowboys Sing (1989).

    Among Guy W. Logsdon's honors so far are these: historical consultant on the 1976 movie "Bound for Glory" on the life of Woody Guthrie; coordinator of Oklahoma's Diamond Jubilee Celebration (75th anniversary) in Washington, D.C.; and author of 23 articles in Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the online publication of the Oklahoma Historical Society.

    And in 1999 he won the "Westerners International Co-Founders Award" from the Western History Association for his book, "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing ; one of the founders of the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada in 1985; the founder and director of the Oklahoma Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Oklahoma City (which ran from 1992 to 1999); in 1997 he won two coveted awards -- the "American Cowboy Culture Award" from the National Cowboy Symposium & Celebration (Lubbock, TX) for his contributions to Western music . . . and the "Will Rogers Lifetime Achievement Award" from the Academy of Western Artists (Dallas, TX).

    In addition, on April 22, 2006, Logsdon won the prestigious "Chester A. Reynolds Award" (included a beautiful Wrangler bronze statue) from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Center. Then on Friday, April 13, 2007, Guy W. Logsdon was inducted into the hall of fame of the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStan Paregien, Sr
    Release dateJan 12, 2013
    ISBN9781301633302
    Guy Logsdon: Award-winning Folklorist
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    Stan Paregien

    Stan Paregien Sr was born in Wapanucka (Johnston County), Oklahoma to Harold and Evelyn (Cauthen) Paregien. The family moved west the year after his birth and he grew up on ranches and farms where his father worked in southern California. One of those places where Harold Paregien worked was the Newhall Ranch, a corporate ranching and farming operation that stretched for miles either side of the highway from the towns of Newhall (now Santa Clarita) to Piru. Stan was already in love with anything cowboy, mostly by watching those great B-Westerns at the local movie theaters. And then on the Newhall Ranch (officially known as the Newhall Land & Farming Company) he and his sister Roberta acquired horses and rode happy trails all over the ranch. Paregien graduated from high school in 1959 at Fillmore, Calif. He married Peggy Ruth Allen from nearby Ventura, Calif., in 1962. They immediately moved to Nashville, Tennessee for Stan to study Speech Communication (and history and Bible) at Lipscomb University. He graduated in 1965. In 1968, he received his master's degree from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Then he completed all 60-hours of the classwork toward a Ph.D. in Speech Communication at the University of Oklahoma (but did not complete his other requirements). He has taken and is still taking continuing education courses in Life Skills through the University of Hard Knocks. He is a former full-time minister, a newspaper reporter and editor, a radio talk show host, a director of mental health facilities in both Texas and Oklahoma, and a salesman of various products. His hobby since 1990 has been writing and performing cowboy poetry and stories. He performed at the annual National Cowboy Symposium in Lubbock, Texas for a total of some 25 years. Through it all, he has been and is a freelance writer and author. He prefers just calling himself a "storyteller" in the tradition of Mark Twain, Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, Garrison Keillor, Ansel Adams, Norman Rockwell, J. Frank Dobie, Agatha Christie and others. Sometimes he tells stories through narration, sometimes through poetry and often through photography. Stan and Peggy have two adult children, Stan Paregien Jr who lives with his family in the St. Louis area; and Stacy Magness who lives with her family near College Station, Texas. They also have four grandchildren (going on five, with an adoption in progress) and two great-grandchildren. T...

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      Guy Logsdon - Stan Paregien

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      Guy W. Logsdon:

      Award-winning Folklorist

      By Stan Paregien Sr

      Smashwords Edition

      Version 1.0

      Copyright 2012 by Stan Paregien Sr

      Edmond, OK

      ISBN: 9781301633302

      Smashwords Edition, License

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you're reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      Dedication

      To my cousin Jerry Paregien (right),

      shown here with me.

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      After all these years, he is still

      more like a brother.

      Table of Contents

      Chapter 1: A Native Oklahoman

      Chapter 2: A Musical Heritage

      Chapter 3: Western Music & Western Wear

      Chapter 4: High Times at Ada High

      Chapter 5: Searching for a Purpose

      Chapter 6: Hanging 'Round Town

      Chapter 7: Guy's First Teaching Jobs

      Chapter 8: Following a Dream

      Chapter 9: Working and Learning

      Chapter 10: The Real Woody Guthrie

      Chapter 11: Many Interests & Awards

      Chapter 12: References

      Chapter 13: Stan Paregien's Bio

      Chapter 14: Stan's Other Ebooks

      Chapter 1: A Native Oklahoman

      Dr. Guy W. Logsdon, a native Oklahoman, has been performing music and collecting and studying it virtually his entire life. A gifted entertainer, whether singing and playing his guitar or telling stories, he is also considered an authority on Woody Guthrie, the life and music of Bob Wills, and Western swing music in general.

      Guy William Logsdon was born on May 31, 1934 in Ada (Pontotoc County), Oklahoma to Guy and Mattie Logsdon. The old home place, where they moved when he was about nine months old, is now inside the Ada city limits. But back then they were out in the country.

      The city of Ada is the county seat of Pontotoc County, and the population in 2009 stood at a little more than 17,000 people. It is located 38 miles to the east of Interstate 35 that is the main north-south highway in Oklahoma, and 39 miles to the south of Interstate 40, the main east-west highway. It is about 84 miles southeast of Oklahoma City, some 120 miles southwest of Tulsa, and 173 miles north of Dallas, Texas.

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      When the community grew large enough to be given a name, the one selected was that of the daughter of an early settler named Jeff Reed. A post office was established there in 1891 and the town incorporated in 1901. Thanks to the establishment of the St. Louis & San Francisco Railroad Line through Ada, it grew rapidly and by 1909 had a population of some 5,000 people.

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      One of the economic mainstays of Ada has been East Central University. It was established in 1909 as a college focusing on training teachers. Two graduates of the university, Robert S. Kerr and George Nigh, went on to become governors of Oklahoma. And Kerr also served as a U.S. Senator.

      Another ECU graduate, Harland Stonecipher, in 1972 founded a highly successful company right there in town called Pre-Paid Legal Services. It now employs several hundred people, locally, and has contracted sales people all over the United States. It was purchased about 2010 by Mid Ocean Partners and rebranded as LegalShield.

      Ada was the birthplace of politician Robert S. Kerr, of evangelist Oral Roberts who founded Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, of country music superstar Blake Shelton, and of Taylor Treat, the Miss Oklahoma of 2009.

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      Blake Shelton early in his career

      Now, back to Guy Logsdon’s family. His grandfather was born in 1845 and fought for Texas during the Civil War. He went off to Indiana University and got a teaching certificate. He taught school and farmed north of Sulphur Springs, Texas. He and his wife had 12 children, only seven of which reached childhood due to various childhood diseases.

      His father’s name was Guy Logsdon, without a middle name. "One day the president of East Central University called my daddy and said they had a big problem with a school near Allen, Oklahoma. The students and some parents kept running off the teachers. So he told my daddy they would give him a teaching certificate if he would go to Allen and teach and clean that place up.

      "My daddy was a not very big, smaller than I am; but he had a bit of a reputation. And he didn’t talk about it much. But later people would come into our furniture store and ask, ‘Is Professor Logsdon here?’ And the first few times I heard that question I thought to myself, ‘Who the heck is this Professor Logsdon?’ Of course, I found out that was my daddy they were talking about.

      "He really didn’t talk about that

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