John Joseph Mathews (1895 1979) a mixed-blood Osage, graduated from the universities of Oklahoma and Oxford, England, and was the author of "Wah Kon-Tah: The Osage and the White Man s Road, ""Talking to the Moon, Sundown, Life and Death of an Oilman: The Career of E. W. Marland, "and" Twenty Thousand Mornings: An Autobiography".