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Chronicles of Oklahoma - Volume 1, No. 1 - January, 1921: A SEQUOYAH CENTENNIAL
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v001/v001p005.html
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Mystery of the Guthrie Tunnels
… One of the more enduring legends is that an underground tunnel ran kitty-corner from Oklahoma’s first state Capitol on W Harrison Avenue to the old Blue Belle Saloon, where legislators discreetly enjoyed the company of soiled doves in a top-floor bordello. Or so the prickly story goes. …
NewsOK.com
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Photo gallery: Tulsa-area locations on the National Register of Historic Places
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Thomas-Foreman Historic Home
1419 West Okmulgee, Muskogee, Oklahoma
http://www.thomas-foremanhistorichome.com/
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Henry Andrew “Heck” Thomas (January 3, 1850 – August 14, 1912) was a lawman on the American frontier, most notably in Oklahoma.
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Thomas teamed with two other deputy U.S. marshals, Chris Madsen and Bill Tilghman. They became known as the Three Guardsmen and were credited with bringing law and order to Indian Territory.
In August 1896, Thomas led a posse that tracked down and killed outlaw Bill Doolin.
In1902, Thomas was sent to Lawton, Oklahoma, where he was elected as the first police chief in the town. He served in that position for seven years until his health began to fail.
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William “Bill” Doolin (1858 – August 24, 1896) was an American bandit outlaw and founder of the Wild Bunch, an outlaw gang that specialized in robbing banks, trains, and stagecoaches in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Kansas during the 1890s.
Biography at Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Doolin
On August 25, 1896 a posse [including Deputy U.S. Marshal Heck Thomas] finally caught up with him at Lawson, Oklahoma, Doolin apparently decided he was not going to be captured alive. Badly outnumbered, Doolin drew his gun. A rain of shotgun and rifle fire instantly killed him. He was 38 years old.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/outlaw-bill-doolin-is-killed
Bill Doolin is buried in the Boot Hill section of Summit View Cemetery in Guthrie, Oklahoma. He is buried next to the outlaw Elmer McCurdy.
img: William “Bill” Doolin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Doolin#/media/File:Bill_Doolin.JPG
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Grave of Elmer McCurdy
… A funhouse dummy that turned out to be a real life mummy, Elmer McCurdy is an urban legend come true …
Atlas Obscura
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“The Wedding of Oklahoma and Miss Indian Territory” by Muriel H. Wright, Chronicles of Oklahoma vol 35, page 255, 1957.
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v035/v035p255.pdf
img: Statue in front of the Oklahoma Territorial Museum, Guthrie, OK http://bit.ly/2bvnknr
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The Defeat of Black Fox: How a Small Group of Oklahomans Halted the Nuclear Juggernaut By: Terry Stewart [December 4, 2016]
… [Sierra Club OK] Editor’s note: in 1973 the Public Service Company of Oklahoma proposed building the Black Fox Nuclear Power Plant in Inola, Oklahoma. Thanks to the dedicated opposition of a handful of Oklahomans, the power plant was never built. This article tells the story from one participant’s point of view. For more about the Black Fox story and those who resisted it, see NVDatabase, OKHistory, TulsaWorld, and Newson6. …
News On 6 - Rogers County Woman Who Fought Black Fox Plant Left Lasting Legacy [April 28, 2011]
Tulsa World - Black Fox revisited [February 15, 2002]
OHS - Black Fox is Dead [March 3, 2012]
http://www.okhistory.org/about/transcript.php?episodedate=2012-03-03
Global Nonviolent Action Database - Oklahomans prevent completion of Black Fox Nuclear Plant, 1973-1982
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Google Maps - U.S.S. Oklahoma Memorial https://goo.gl/maps/9YbWUZcTk6J2
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U.S.S. Oklahoma (BB-37)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Oklahoma_(BB-37)
… USS Oklahoma (BB-37) was a Nevada-class battleship built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for the United States Navy in the 1910s. The Nevada class were oil-burning ships in the United States Navy. Oklahoma was the only US warship ever named for the 46th state. … On December 7, 1941, Oklahoma was sunk by several torpedoes during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Torpedoes from torpedo bomber airplanes hit the ship’s hull and the ship flipped upside down. Survivors jumped off the ship 50 feet into burning hot water or crawled across ropes that hooked the Oklahoma and the Maryland. Some people inside the ship escaped when rescuers came and drilled holes and opened hatches to take them out. When the ship sank a total of 429 crew died when she capsized in Battleship Row. In 1943 Oklahoma was righted and salvaged. However, unlike most of the other battleships that were recovered following Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma was too damaged to return to duty. Her wreck was eventually stripped of her remaining armament and superstructure before being sold for scrap in 1946. The hulk sank in a storm while being towed from Oahu in Hawaii to a breakers yard in San Francisco Bay in 1947. …
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National Park Service: Santa Fe National Historic Trail
https://www.nps.gov/safe/index.htm
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Official Santa Fe Trail Association
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Oklahoma Historical Society to sell assets it can’t afford to maintain
… Its budget slashed, the Oklahoma Historical Society is selling historically significant sites it can no longer afford to maintain, including Fort Washita and Sequoyah’s Cabin, to two Oklahoma Indian tribes. …
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The Longest Site
… In 1965-1966, excavations at a site about 15 miles south of Ringling, Oklahoma revealed the Taovayas village detailed in the Spanish records of the Parrilla expedition. The site, named after the Longest family who had farmed in the area for many years, covered an area of 35-40 acres. Situated above the Red River on a broad terrace, the site is protected from flooding by its elevation. …
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