M.J. Alexander, Author at 405 Magazine

Vintage Tractor Time Machines

A colorful photoessay focusing on old tractors that, though weathered by the slow flow of time, are making a comeback.

M.J. Alexander disrupts a common myth about Oklahoma’s size supremacy over states east of the Mississippi.

M.J. Alexander explains why, though it was close, Oklahoma doesn’t get to claim credit for the invention of the electric

The true story of Oklahoma guitarist Tommy Allsup, who lived on the day the music died.

Pioneering OKC mayor Patience Latting was beaten to the history books by 45 years – by Seattle’s Bertha Knight Landes.

Looking back at the lives of Oklahoma’s supercentenarians, and some of the wisdom they accumulated across the span more than

With over a century in the books, the small-town Corn Bible Academy has amassed a long legacy … but not

130 years after Buffalo Bill performed for Queen Victoria, M.J. Alexander discovers some traces of the American prairie that still

An investigation of why Oklahoma’s northeasternmost point is home to not one but two border monuments.

A massive totem pole in Rogers County is an enduring landmark and undeniably impressive, but doesn’t measure up to hype