• Staking A Claim - book cover
• Staking A Claim - inside book flap
• Ashbury Park Press: In Search of Jake Simmons, Jr.
• Atheneum Publishers: Selected as 1991 Book for the Teen Age
• Christian Science Monitor: Unlikely Oil Magnate
• Los Angeles Times: Equal To Anyone
• North Star Publishing: Black Gold: Jake Simmons Jr.'s Oil Dynasty
• Rocky Mountain News: African-American Offers Instruction
• Tulsa World: Civil Rights Pioneer a Friend To All
• Washington Post: Black Gold: The Simmons Family of Oklahoma