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4 unusual facts about Bartlesville


Bill Holford

Bill Holford (né William Dwight Holford, Sr.; 12 June 1919 Bartlesville, Oklahoma — 22 March 1999 Houston) was, for 50 years, an American recording engineer and record producer.

Foster Stockwell

Paul Foster Stockwell (February 17, 1929, in Bartlesville, Oklahoma - ) is an American writer, historian and publishing consultant for Chinese publishers and authors.

Mongols Motorcycle Club

Mongols member Christopher Ablett turned himself in to authorities in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on October 4, 2008 after going on the run for murdering Hells Angels President Mark "Papa" Guardado in San Francisco, California earlier that year.

Pavilion for Japanese Art

Before entering the embrace of LACMA, the pavilion was first designed to be built in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, where Price had assembled his extensive collection, and then was later redesigned as a wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.


Jake Beckley

After his Major League career ended, Beckley became a player/manager for Kansas City in the American Association in 1908-1909, Bartlesville in the Western Association in 1910, and Hannibal in the Central Association in 1911.

Joe Kerbel

After a successful coaching career at Bartlesville and Cleveland High School in Oklahoma, Kerbel became head coach at Breckenridge High School in 1952.

Mid-Continent oil province

The successes that followed of the Nellie Johnstone No. 1 (Bartlesville, Oklahoma) in 1897, Spindletop (Texas) in 1901, and the Ida Glenn No. 1 (Glenn Pool, Oklahoma) in 1905, demonstrated the existence of a large oil field in the central and southwestern United States.

Tulsa metropolitan area

Based on commuting patterns, the adjacent micropolitan areas of Muskogee, Bartlesville and Tahlequah are grouped into a wider labor market region known as the Tulsa–Muskogee-Bartlesville Combined Statistical Area (CSA), commonly known as the Green Country region.

Wann, Oklahoma

The town was a station on the stage route between Coffeyville, Kansas and Bartlesville, Indian Territory.


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