Oklahoma: A Story Through Her People

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Above: The Phillips Petroleum Company Museum. Below: The Frank Phillips Home in Bartlesville. Frank Phillips started his career as a barber in Iowa. He came to Bartlesville in 1903 hoping to discover oil. None of the wells he financed were successful until more than two years later. Then he hit pay dirt, finding oil in the next eighty-one wells he drilled. This was the foundation for his wealth and the Phillips Petroleum Company which was founded in 1917 and put Bartlesville on the map. 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 40
Inventions & Innovation The needs and wants of consumers spawned ideas in Oklahoma. Scientists at Phillips Petroleum in Bartlesville invented the aerosol can and plastic. The idea for mud flaps to prevent the wheels of big rigs from kicking up mud and rocks came from Oscar March, a truck driver at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City. Perry machine shop owner Ed Malzahn created the Ditch Witch trenching machine to replace the pick and shovel. Now half the trenching machines in the world are made at the Ditch Witch plant in Perry. The shopping cart and the parking meter were invented in Oklahoma City. In 1932, Walt Disney chose Clarence Nash, a native of Watonga, as the voice of Donald Duck. For the next fifty years, Nash was the voice of the famous cartoon duck. NEXRAD (next generation weather radar) was invented by professors at the University of Oklahoma School of Meteorology. The National Weather Service Forecast Center is on the OU campus in Norman. Clinton Riggs designed the YIELD sign and first used it in Tulsa. The world’s first tornado forecast was issued by two officers at Tinker Air Force Base in Midwest City in 1948. Arthur Jones, a native of Seminole, invented Nautilus exercise equipment found in most gyms and health spas in the nation. The first Sam’s Club warehouse shopping store was built in Midwest City in 1983 and opened by founder, Kingfisher native Sam Walton. Oklahoma’s State Capitol is the only such building located over a commercial pool of oil. America’s first Boy Scout troop was formed at Pawhuska. The first Girl Scout cookie was sold in Muskogee in 1917. Above: The National Weather Service Forecast Center is in Norman. S A M U E L M O O R E W A L T O N Kingfisher, Oklahoma is proud to claim Sam Walton as a native son. He was born there in 1918 to Thomas Gibson and Nancy Lee Walton, Even though the family moved when Sam was a boy he never forgot his Kingfisher roots and was a frequent visitor there throughout his life. With extensive retail experience behind him, Sam Walton and a brother opened the first Walmart in Rogers, Arkansas, calling it Walmart Discount City. From that humble beginning, the worldwide chain now known simply as Walmart was born. One might wonder what Sam Walton would think of his stores today since his determination to market American-made products and find American manufacturers, has definitely been forgotten. Sam’s Clubs, membership only retail warehouse stores, operated by Walmart and named for Sam, was founded in 1983, nine years before his death, and as of 2014 had grown to over 600 stores in forty-eight states, 11 in Puerto Rico, 13 in Brazil, and 1 in China. C H A P T E R 2 4 1
Page 1 and 2: KLAHOMA OA S t o r y T h r o u g h
Page 3 and 4: OKLAHOMA A S t o r y T h r o u g h
Page 5 and 6: CONTENTS 4 Chapter 1 Building Block
Page 7 and 8: Scientists date the sedimentary roc
Page 9 and 10: Wichita Mountains The Wichita Mount
Page 11 and 12: C H A P T E R 1 9
Page 13 and 14: The Mound Builders constructed huge
Page 15 and 16: Left: George Catlin’s 1836 painti
Page 17 and 18: Every first Saturday in May, the to
Page 19 and 20: To keep peace in Indian Territory,
Page 21 and 22: The railroads led the movement for
Page 23 and 24: The Camp Cook’s Troubles by Charl
Page 25 and 26: Many events in Oklahoma’s history
Page 27 and 28: Right: Indian Paintbrush. Even the
Page 29 and 30: Opposite page and this page: Kiamic
Page 31 and 32: Forests cover one fourth of the sta
Page 33 and 34: Below: Red Bud Tree at Cedar Lake i
Page 35 and 36: Above and below: Talimena National
Page 37 and 38: Tulsa Riverwalk C H A P T E R 2 3 5
Page 39 and 40: Oklahoma’s people are unique. The
Page 41: Inventions & Innovation W I L E Y P
Page 45 and 46: Right: Renowned Oklahoma artist Cha
Page 47 and 48: Primarily an agricultural state thr
Page 49 and 50: The names of oil and gas pioneers i
Page 51 and 52: At one time during the early oil an
Page 53 and 54: Top: Grain silos. C H A P T E R 3 5
Page 55 and 56: Agriculture remains an integral par
Page 57 and 58: Slew City Sir is a grandson of Seat
Page 59 and 60: Oklahoma grown can be found in farm
Page 61 and 62: Above: Tree farm. Left: The vinyard
Page 63 and 64: Opposite, top: Mister Lew is a towi
Page 65 and 66: Robert S. Kerr Dam C H A P T E R 3
Page 67 and 68: Above: Cherokee Casino, Ramona, Okl
Page 69 and 70: Opposite: SkyDance Pedestrian Bridg
Page 71 and 72: Expo Square, Tulsa C H A P T E R 3
Page 73 and 74: In the second decade of the new cen
Page 75 and 76: Opposite: Muskogee Power Plant. Bel
Page 77 and 78: C H A P T E R 4 7 5
Page 79 and 80: Oklahoma’s cost of living is a ma
Page 81 and 82: Education has been a key tool in pr
Page 83 and 84: Oklahoma City Community College C H
Page 85 and 86: Langston University C H A P T E R 4
Page 87 and 88: C H A P T E R 4 8 5
Page 89 and 90: Oklahoma’s location makes the sta
Page 91 and 92: 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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the sports included were tennis, so
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Citizen-approved bond projects also
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completed in 1960, followed by a gy
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In 1912 local Presbyterian ladies s
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CHOCTAW NATION OF OKLAHOMA The Choc
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ecause the revenues of tribal busin
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and prolong the process of investig
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Crawfish. Historic photographs and
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tornado was declared the worst torn
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For the Wyandotte Nation, 2013 brou
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Oklahoma had not been together as a
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to the landscape for cultural educa
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OKLAHOMA HALL OF FAME The Oklahoma
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Marketplace/Professionals Financial
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future and the future of your child
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Express put more than 80,000 people
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Beginning in 2013, Express offices
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estrictions, which meant for each $
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about a half dozen other people who
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Wade moved back to Mustang in 1988
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In addition, Hill was named a final
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Mission360, a Christian-based found
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C. B.’s death. Both served as com
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PUCKETT’S FOOD STORES The story b
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In February 1901 three bankers from
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Building a Greater Oklahoma Oklahom
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The Siegfrieds hold firm in Ray’s
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Founded upon a dynamic vision and p
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underground utilities including wat
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well as food grade phosphates used
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Additionally, to bring worldwide at
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Currently, Bio-Cide’s products ar
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scholarships at his alma mater for
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Today, their expertise covers powde
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Following graduation, Chuck joined
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PELCO PRODUCTS, INC. Pelco Products
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Zinke is active in many association
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efficiently, and quickly recover th
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Another valuable resource for devel
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Since its founding in 1966 as a sma
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When their son, Cory, graduated fro
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Hammer Construction was originally
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Huckabay Family All America Bank ®
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS B O B B U R K E B
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