…usual route, arriving there on about the fourth of July of that same year. 1817. He found the Osages already at the Springs, under the command of their chief, Claremore. The Cherokees had guns, and while they were outnumbered by the Osages, the latter were armed only with bows and…
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…the Barnsdall Oil Co., are among the largest companies represented in the city. Numerous pipelines, torpedo companies and drilling contractors center their activities here for the convenience of reaching the territory where their activities are located. The Bartlesville Zinc Company and the National Zinc Company own and operate the three…
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…industries are largely due to the development of oil and natural gas in that vicinity, and to the smelters which the bountiful supply of gas induced to locate there. For several years Dewey gained quite a good deal of fame and free advertising by the annual Round-ups which were held…
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…of north latitude, but the Act of Congress known as the Missouri Compromise had declared that the slave territory could not extend farther north than 361/2 degrees. Texas, of course, was a slave state and did not want any “free nigger” land within its boundaries, so it confined its northern…
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…Altus SE Franklin Cemetery Bryan Platter Franks Cemetery Pontotoc Fittstown Frazier Cemetery Jackson Altus Frederick Cemetery Tillman Frederick Free Home Cemetery Major Fairview NE Freedom Cemetery Woods Freedom French Cemetery Le Flore Spiro Friday Cemetery Muskogee Haskell Friends Cemetery Grant Pond Creek NW Friendship Cemetery Pottawatomie Tribbey Frisco Cemetery Canadian…
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…Progress – Claremore Duncan Banner – Duncan Durant Daily Democrat – Durant Edmond Sun – Edmond Enid News & Eagle – Enid Examiner-Enterprise – Bartlesville Grove Daily News – Jay Guthrie New Leader – Guthrie Henryetta Daily Free-Lance – Henryetta Hugo Daily News – Hugo Journal Record – Oklahoma City…
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…still operated as a state bank. These banks have been conservatively managed and are well supported. by the business men of the city and by the farmers and oil companies of the surrounding community. During. the past year a fourth bank has been established under the title of the Arkansas…
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…the school. The first year the unit was established, the rifle team won first place in the junior gallery competition in the Eighth corps area. Major General Dickman sent a letter to each of the competing teams calling -attention to the fact that the O. M. A. cadets were able…
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…the little church house, which he had just completed, carried away by a wind storm. This misfortune did not seem to dishearten the parishioners, however, for they soon got busy and erected a better and more commodious building. The Christian denomination was the next to organize a church. Rev. J….
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…in Cherokee political affairs, but as tribal affairs became settled up and tribal councils abolished, it turned its attention to state and county affairs. Several years ago the Chieftain was absorbed by the Leader Printing Company. Civic Organizations About 1900 the Twentieth Century Club was organized and, for several years,…
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