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unusual facts about State of Oklahoma



Hitchcock County, Sequoyah

Although their attempt to achieve statehood was unsuccessful, many of their deliberations in establishing proposed counties proved useful to the framers of Oklahoma, who met just two years later for the purpose of establishing the State of Oklahoma.


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Checotah, Oklahoma

Nearby is Eufaula Lake, the largest-capacity lake in the state of Oklahoma.

China Hands

Hurley, a Republican recruited by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to promote a bipartisan China policy, initially felt there was no more difference between the Chinese communists and Nationalists than between the Democrats and Republicans in his home state of Oklahoma, but wanted to form a coalition government led by Chiang Kai-shek.

Doug Gabbard, II

Doug Gabbard, II is a judge on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, the intermediate appellate court in the state of Oklahoma.

Erich von Hornbostel

In 1906, he was in America to study the music and psychology of the Pawnee people, native Americans in the state of Oklahoma; he had by that time already studied the native music of Tunisia and of South Sea Islanders.

Heinrich Karl Beyrich

In September 1834, while on an expedition through North America, he became ill and died at Fort Gibson, located in the present-day state of Oklahoma.

Keith Rapp

Keith Rapp is a judge on the Oklahoma Court of Civil Appeals, the intermediate appellate court in the state of Oklahoma.

MidFirst Bank

MidFirst Bank is an Oklahoma City, Oklahoma-based bank, concentrated in the state of Oklahoma and Phoenix, Arizona.

ODL

Oklahoma Department of Libraries, the state library for the U.S. state of Oklahoma