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4 unusual facts about Oklahoma Territory


J. Clarence Karcher

When he was five the family moved to Oklahoma Territory and settled in a farming community near Hennessey.

John Willock Noble

Under his watch as Secretary of the Interior, the Cherokee Commission negotiated eleven agreements that removed nineteen indigenous tribes to small allotments in the Oklahoma Territory, while opening the land to homesteaders.

Oklahoma State Firefighters Museum

It contains a remarkable collection of antique gear, dating back to the mid-18th century, and also holds the first fire station in Oklahoma Territory, built in 1864.

Stanley Vestal

In about 1889, the Campbell family relocated from Kansas to the Oklahoma Territory.


James Yancy Callahan

In 1896, Callahan was nominated for Congressional delegate from Oklahoma Territory, and was elected by a plurality of less than fifteen hundred, running on the Free Silver ticket to the 55th United States Congress.


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2009 Tulsa Golden Hurricane football team

Tulsa appeared to be off to a good start, intercepting Landry Jones on the first play of the game and taking 25 of their first 27 snaps in Oklahoma territory, but two costly red-zone turnovers and a missed 50-yard field goal kept them scoreless in the first half while the Sooners built an insurmountable 31-0 lead.

Earlsboro, Oklahoma

The town had an economic boom from the outset because Indian Territory was legally "dry," bot Oklahoma Territory was not.

Maud, Oklahoma

In 1890, a barbed-wire fence was built along the street now called Broadway from the North Canadian River to the Canadian River to keep the Native Americans out of Oklahoma Territory.