Oklahoma: A Story Through Her People

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O K L A H O M A : A S t o r y T h r o u g h H e r P e o p l e 232
Building a Greater <strong>Oklahoma</strong> <strong>Oklahoma</strong>’s real estate developers, construction companies, heavy industries, and manufacturers provide the economic foundation of the region SPECIAL THANKS TO INDUSTRY AND MANUFACTURING NORDAM ...................................................................................2 3 4 The Charles Machine Works, Inc. ....................................................2 3 8 Glass Tr ucking Company ...............................................................2 4 0 GHK Company .............................................................................2 4 2 Bio-Cide International, Inc. ...........................................................2 4 4 R & R Engineering Company, Inc. ...................................................2 4 6 Hilti, Inc. ...................................................................................2 4 8 Charles D. (Chuck) Mills ..............................................................2 5 0 Pelco Structural, LLC ...................................................................2 5 2 Pelco Products, Inc. ......................................................................2 5 3 Zenergy, Inc ................................................................................2 5 4 Zeeco, Inc. ..................................................................................2 5 6 Chesapeake Energy .......................................................................2 5 8 Lewis Manufacturing Company .......................................................2 6 0 United Petroleum Transports ..........................................................2 6 1 Case & Associates, Tulsa Disco Automative Hardware, Sulphur AGRICULTURE AND RANCHING Midwest Farm Supply ...................................................................2 6 2 Banner Co-Operative Elevator Association .......................................2 6 4 Jim Leonard Ranch, Sulphur CONTRACTORS Hammer Construction ...................................................................2 6 5 Southwest Farm Supply, Elk City O K L A H O M A P A R T N E R S 2 3 3
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KLAHOMA OA S t o r y T h r o u g h
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OKLAHOMA A S t o r y T h r o u g h
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CONTENTS 4 Chapter 1 Building Block
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Scientists date the sedimentary roc
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Wichita Mountains The Wichita Mount
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C H A P T E R 1 9
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The Mound Builders constructed huge
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Left: George Catlin’s 1836 painti
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Every first Saturday in May, the to
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To keep peace in Indian Territory,
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The railroads led the movement for
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The Camp Cook’s Troubles by Charl
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Many events in Oklahoma’s history
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Right: Indian Paintbrush. Even the
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Opposite page and this page: Kiamic
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Forests cover one fourth of the sta
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Below: Red Bud Tree at Cedar Lake i
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Above and below: Talimena National
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Tulsa Riverwalk C H A P T E R 2 3 5
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Oklahoma’s people are unique. The
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Inventions & Innovation W I L E Y P
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Inventions & Innovation The needs a
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Right: Renowned Oklahoma artist Cha
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Primarily an agricultural state thr
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The names of oil and gas pioneers i
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At one time during the early oil an
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Top: Grain silos. C H A P T E R 3 5
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Agriculture remains an integral par
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Slew City Sir is a grandson of Seat
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Oklahoma grown can be found in farm
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Above: Tree farm. Left: The vinyard
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Opposite, top: Mister Lew is a towi
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Robert S. Kerr Dam C H A P T E R 3
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Above: Cherokee Casino, Ramona, Okl
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Opposite: SkyDance Pedestrian Bridg
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Expo Square, Tulsa C H A P T E R 3
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In the second decade of the new cen
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Opposite: Muskogee Power Plant. Bel
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C H A P T E R 4 7 5
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Oklahoma’s cost of living is a ma
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Education has been a key tool in pr
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Oklahoma City Community College C H
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Langston University C H A P T E R 4
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C H A P T E R 4 8 5
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Oklahoma’s location makes the sta
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Oklahoma electric rates are among t
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BOK Center, Tulsa General Electric
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The quality of life in Oklahoma is
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Robbers Cave State Park C H A P T E
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Above: Lincoln Bridge, Chickasaw Na
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Renaissance Festival C H A P T E R
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Top: Oklahoma State Fair. Above: Ok
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Opposite and above: Festival of the
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Above: Canal in downtown Oklahoma C
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Downtown Guthrie Top, right: Masoni
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Above: Rafting on the Illinois Rive
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C H A P T E R 5 1 1 1
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Above: Piominko, Great Chief of the
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C H A P T E R 5 1 1 5
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C H A P T E R 5 1 1 7
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Opposite, top: Northwest Oklahoma.
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Residents and visitors alike give O
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Opposite, clockwise starting from t
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C H A P T E R 6 1 2 5
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Due to the leadership and assistanc
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Opposite, top: Off to the zebra and
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Opposite page: The National Route 6
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Above: Induction into the Oklahoma
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People always have been Oklahoma’
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C H A P T E R 6 1 3 7
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One of the ways that Oklahomans are
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Above: Noble High School band membe
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Langston University Above and right
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C H A P T E R 6 1 4 5
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Clockwise, starting from the top: T
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Oklahoma Partners Quality of Life .
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Quality of Life Healthcare provider
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Nations Council, Boy Scouts of Amer
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John Steele Zink first purchased 1,
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matches the skills and desires of t
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Sunbeam Family Services, which bega
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jobs for people with disabilities,
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for children and families including
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O K L A H O M A P A R T N E R S 1 6
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on a basis of mutual respect and un
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23,000 in the 1980s. Today, there a
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e the safest anywhere, has pledged
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Tonkawa, Oklahoma’s people and he
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included a series of summer concert
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In the heart of Pauls Valley’s hi
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The history of Stroud does read lik
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Page 185 and 186: Citizen-approved bond projects also
Page 187 and 188: completed in 1960, followed by a gy
Page 189 and 190: In 1912 local Presbyterian ladies s
Page 191 and 192: CHOCTAW NATION OF OKLAHOMA The Choc
Page 193 and 194: ecause the revenues of tribal busin
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Page 197 and 198: Crawfish. Historic photographs and
Page 199 and 200: tornado was declared the worst torn
Page 201 and 202: For the Wyandotte Nation, 2013 brou
Page 203 and 204: Oklahoma had not been together as a
Page 205 and 206: to the landscape for cultural educa
Page 207 and 208: OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME The Oklahoma
Page 209 and 210: Marketplace/Professionals Financial
Page 211 and 212: future and the future of your child
Page 213 and 214: Express put more than 80,000 people
Page 215 and 216: Beginning in 2013, Express offices
Page 217 and 218: estrictions, which meant for each $
Page 219 and 220: about a half dozen other people who
Page 221 and 222: Wade moved back to Mustang in 1988
Page 223 and 224: In addition, Hill was named a final
Page 225 and 226: Mission360, a Christian-based found
Page 227 and 228: C. B.’s death. Both served as com
Page 229 and 230: PUCKETT’S FOOD STORES The story b
Page 231 and 232: In February 1901 three bankers from
Page 233: O K L A H O M A P A R T N E R S 2 3
Page 237 and 238: The Siegfrieds hold firm in Ray’s
Page 239 and 240: Founded upon a dynamic vision and p
Page 241 and 242: underground utilities including wat
Page 243 and 244: well as food grade phosphates used
Page 245 and 246: Additionally, to bring worldwide at
Page 247 and 248: Currently, Bio-Cide’s products ar
Page 249 and 250: scholarships at his alma mater for
Page 251 and 252: Today, their expertise covers powde
Page 253 and 254: Following graduation, Chuck joined
Page 255 and 256: PELCO PRODUCTS, INC. Pelco Products
Page 257 and 258: Zinke is active in many association
Page 259 and 260: efficiently, and quickly recover th
Page 261 and 262: Another valuable resource for devel
Page 263 and 264: Since its founding in 1966 as a sma
Page 265 and 266: When their son, Cory, graduated fro
Page 267 and 268: Hammer Construction was originally
Page 269 and 270: Huckabay Family All America Bank ®
Page 271 and 272: ABOUT THE AUTHORS B O B B U R K E B
Page 273 and 274: O K L A H O M A P A R T N E R S 2 7
Page 275: LEADERSHIP SPONSORS ISBN: 978-1-939
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