By Rich Fisher
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Tulsa, OK – Today on our show, we hear from the author and scholar Robert Morgan about his latest book, "Lions of the West: Heroes and Villains of the Westward Expansion." This work offers a series of representative profiles from the annals of American history, a gathering of essays about ten key figures (most of them quite familiar) who each and all played a pivotal role --- for better or worse --- in America's epic westward migration: Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, John "Johnny Appleseed" Chapman, David Crockett, Sam Houston, James K. Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy Adams. As a critic for Kirkus Reviews has noted of this volume, it's "a vivid, well-conceived look at western expansion in the old narrative-driven school of Bernard DeVoto and Wallace Stegner." Also on today's StudioTulsa, our commentator Collin Hinds notes that, while the political debate linked with the global warming movement rages on --- in today's Tulsa World, for instance, Oklahoma's senior U.S. Senator, Jim Inhofe, claims that the movement has collapsed --- the science behind this movement is still, quite clearly (and unfortunately), right on target.