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With President Barack Obama talking public work projects as a means of handling the current recession, the impact government spending had on the Great Depression during Franklin Roosevelt's New ...

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Dr. George Cross, president of the University of Oklahoma, began writing a heartfelt letter to the Oklahoma Corporation Commission at his desk. It was the summer of 1946 and the new owners of the Okla...

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At 3 in the morning, an explosion rocked the small town of Fairfax in Osage County. Nitroglycerine had been used to blow up the Smith home, killing Osage tribal member Rita Smith and her white servant...

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For 18 months beginning in 1929, Waynoka was the center of one of the most ambitious transportation endeavors the nation had ever witnessed. America's fair-haired boy, Charles Lindbergh, had been th...

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Oklahoma oilman Tom Slick Jr. used his family fortune hunting the Loch Ness monster, bigfoot, yeti and so on throughout the Fifties. As Loren Coleman underscored in his 1989 book, "Tom Slick and th...

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Wewoka was the location for a series of secret conferences within the Seminole Nation during the summer of 1846. The attendees did not dare let their hosts, the Creeks, learn of what they were discuss...

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Former Oklahoma Gov. William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray once led an army of Oklahoma families into Bolivia in the Twenties in order to set up a series of colonies. In 1922, he obtained ...

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Mike Coppock
Former Oklahoma Gov. William H. "Alfalfa Bill" Murray once led an army of Oklahoma families into Bolivia in the Twenties in order to set up a series of colonies. In 1922, he obtained a land g...

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Mike Coppock
On April 4, 1950, a part-time Enid welder carried out a bank robbery using a stolen airplane for his getaway. The target: the Bank of Okarche. For James Robison, 29, money was growing...

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Under the dam forming the Great Salt Plains Lake near Cherokee may be 1,400 pounds of gold bullion. In 1854, miners were returning from the California Gold Rush when they saw hostile American...

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A brief partnership between a 70-year-old Waynoka flyswatter inventor and an Enid garage mechanic resulted in the creation of the multimillion-dollar Cessna Aircraft Co. empire, according to The...

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On April 9, 1947, Oklahoma experienced the deadliest tornado in state history, resulting in a mystery around a 4-year-old girl that remains unsolved.   A two-mile-wide cyclone left 107 d...

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When Oklahoman and American Indian sports hero Jim Thorpe passed away in 1953, the governor of Oklahoma refused to build him a $25,000 memorial. His remains are now in a distant Pennsylv...