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COVERS BED AND BREAKFAST promise of the Magnificent Seven - IN LITTLE DIXIE 14 Oklahoma's wildest and wealthiest oilfields. For Oklahomans who thought they had to catch a plane to Connecticut or LEGACIES The Continent to stay in a country 32 inn, hang onto your ticket and hop in Oklahoma's oil tycoons got rich by the car. taking some of its vast natural resources, but a look around the state shows how much they gave back. KlNa OF THE WILDCATTERS CANT STOP BIG RED Tom Slick eamed his nickname by - 34 using his secrets for success: street- smarts, savvy and ESP.

Barry Switzer shows the latest miniature monuments to the Sooners' knack for staying on top. Photo by Jim Argo. Inside front. A bobcat lolls in a tree near Goodwater. Photo by Kym They've got six national Wilson. Back. A lichen- championships under their belts; one covered boulder blends more will tie the Sooners with Notre with the fall foliage in the bme for the most No. 1 titles in Wichita Mountains. Photo football history. by David Halpem. PORTFOLIO 40 FEATURES Scenes from an Oklahoma fall. OKLAHOMA'S 23 DEPARTMENTS ------1 LUCKY- - - STRIKES- THE WORLD'S RICHEST CALF Meet Jackson Bamett, the richest Today in Oklahoma ...... 4 MNQ EM lll~SHOW 8 who ever lived, and Sheriff Buck BmwLm ...... 5 The world's best gather each year in Garrett, a judge-slapping, pistol- Uncommon Common Folk ...... 6 Bushyhead to offer an unlikely mixture packing ladies man, and all the others Oklahoma Omnibus: Geronimo ...... I2 of entertainment. whose lives became entwined in the Entertainment Calendar ...... 45

PUBLISHED BY THE OKLAHOMA TOURISM AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT 1 OkMoma TODAY (ISSN 0030-1892) is published bi- Sue Caner, Editor-in-Chief Geri Stevens, Accounting monthly in January, March, May, July, September and Susan Bunney Tomlinson, Managing Editor Melanie Mayberry, Subscription Services November. Subscription prices: $lZ/yr. in U.S.; $161~1. Pat Shaner Laquer, Art Director Sheila Brock, Events Calendar outside U.S. Copyright 1986 by Oklahoma TODAYmaga- Carolyn Hollingsworth, Marketing zine. 401 Will Rogers Bldg., P.O. Box 53384. Oklahoma I City, OK 73152. (405) 521-2496. I Printed at PennWell Printing, Tulsa. 1 Abe L. Hesser, Emutioc Dinttor Tourism and Recreation Commission Second-class postage paid at Oklahoma City, OK and Tom Creider, Phnning @ Ddopmmt additional entry offices. Postmaster: Send address Eugene Dilbeck, Madcting Snw'm James Durham, C%ainnan Larry Lindley changes to Oklahoma TODAY Circulation. P.O. Box N. Clay McDermeit, Pads Rilla Wilcox, Vice Chainnan Jim Pate 53384, Oklahoma City, OK 73152. Michael L. Moccia, Adminishurtion Bob Hiton Grace Renbarger Tom Rich. Lodga Carlos Langston R. L. Rollins

- SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 3 won national football championships" with Notre Dame this winter and Keith describes the challenge. His sto- ry begins on page 34. Fans may want to drop by OU's Stovall Museum this fall to view a spe- cial exhibit of football memorabilia. Ar- tifacts from cheerleaders, the band and the Rufneks will be included along with old-style helmets, jerseys and trophies. tb And speaking of winners, Michael sk someone to name three things $u After 39 years as Sports Informa- Wallis has won three national awards AOklahoma is best known for, and tion Director, perhaps no one knows from the Public Relations Society of two out of the three will be OU foot- more about football at the University America for stories published in Okla- ball and oil. This issue salutes both: of Oklahoma than Harold Keith. homa r0DW. He's also a popular writ- the oil industry for its many contribu- Keith began promoting OU football er with our readers. Cited were stories tions to the state and the six Sooner teams in 1930 when Ad Lindsey was on the 45th Infantry, rodeo cowboy football teams which have won nation- coach and Bennie Owen, for whom the Freckles Brown and the Panhandle al championships. playing field is named, was athletic town of Texhoma. Oil is believed to have been discov- director. He attended all 178 games $u Recent changes for OkIdoma TO- ered in Oklahoma in 1859 near what is played by Bud Wilkinson-coached DAY include a new managing editor- now Pryor when Lewis Ross, brother teams. And he still goes to all the Susan Bunney Tomlinson-and mov- of Cherokee Chief John Ross, acciden- home games, but since his retirement ing our offices to the Will Rogers tally hit oil while drilling for salt water. in 1969, he says he prefers to view Building, next to the Capitol. Former His well produced 10 barrels a day. Barry Switzer's finest playing their out- managing editor Kate Jones recently And ever since, not only the devel- of-state games on TV-"the best seat headed west for Denver. opment of the state's economy, but in the stadium." $u Long-time subscribers who stop also its growth in the arts, health care Keith's book, OkIahoma Kickof, cov- for a sandwich in the new restaurant of and research, education and even the ers the first 25 years of OU football Oklahoma City's Will Rogers Airport character of its people have been influ- beginning in 1895. A second book, may look up and see a familiar scene. enced by the production of oil. Forty-Seven Straight, describes the On the wall is a mural painted from a Who were these people who risked teams coached by Wilkinson. photograph in OkLahoma TODAY of it all to discover the state's major oil So who could be better qualified to Lake Altus-Lugert in Quartz Mountain fields? What were they like and how write about OU's six national champi- State Park. First printed in the Fall did they spend the millions of dollars onship teams than Harold Keith? 1983 issue, we liked it well enough to made during that turbulent 30-year OU could tie up the title of "most reprint in the 1985 scenic calendar. veriod? Paul Lefebvre, former OkMoma TO- Bob Gregory, author of Oil in ORla- DAY art director, was the photogra- Next Issue: Spend Christmas with homa, writes about Tom Slick, the turn-of-the-century Oklahomans in pher. -Sue Carter "King of the Wildcatters," and the Guthrie when today's residents mns- other folks who first punched the form their restored downtown into aVic- earth's crust into the state's richest oil torian stage. Almost everyone in town- pools beginning on page 18. from nursing home ladies who crochet Among- these over-night- millionaires Christmas tree stars to high school home was Thomas Gilcrease, who later gave economics girls who make cookies- his art collection and the Gilcrease Mu- contributes to this festive, historically The Great Getty, by Robert Lenzner; seum to the city of Tulsa. Woolaroc, authentic holiday celebration. Then Cmn PubIkAm, Inc., 419 Pad Awe. the lodge where Frank Phillips enter- you'll meet some of Oklahoma's best Soudr, New Yod, NY 10016; $18.95. craftsmen and women and see their tained, and the Marland Mansion, The careers of thousands of early-day work And for those who have won- entrepreneurs were launched in the home to E.W. Marland, also continue dered why red din in Oklahoma is red, to be enjoyed by the public today. you'll find out in the November-De- richness and promise of Oklahoma's Kathryn Jenson White lists other oil- oember issue of ORkdoma WDAY. historic oilfields profiled by writer Bob related places to visit on page 32. Gregory in this issue. However, none

4 Oklahoma TODAY exceeded the fortune built by J. Paul taped it for his children and grandchil- homa football games this season, and Getty, proclaimed in the 1950s as the dren. With this in mind, I did the last January we had a party for Coach richest man in the world. Getty's em- same, and then put it in book form Barry Switzer and several OU and pire began in Oklahoma's oilfields. with pictures of my early childhood OSU players. Lenzner, a family insider who spent and photos from the book Osage Couno Our club has been featured in sever- four years researching the book, de- Pmfikr. al local newspapers and magazines. scribes Getty's astounding business I am from Ponca City. William Aaron savvy and success, as well as his mer- Northbrook, Illinois Stephen B. Wright curial and tarnished personal life. Honolulu. Hawaii The MayJune issue of Okkdoma TO- President, Sooner Club of Hawaii The Champions! Oklahoma DAY, with its articles about Osage Sooners 1985, Soonen Iffustrattd,P. 0. County, is terrific. I shed a tear when I Please send your latest issue of Okh- 837, Tuh, OK 74101; $1 7.95. Devo- saw that cover because I was born in homa TODAY so that it will reach my tees of the University of Oklahoma's Osage County three months before husband for our anniversary. And on football team are likely to enjoy this Oklahoma became a state and I consid- the card please write: "Three wonder- play-by-play recap of the Sooners' vic- er the "Emerald Ocean" God's ful years we now celebrate-all in torious march to the 1985 national country. Oklahoma, my home state. Okfaha- championship. A generous supply of homa TODAY is my gift to you so you'll photographs supplements articles Estal E. Sparlin know my state better, too." about each -game of the season, Coach Cleveland, Ohio Barry Switzer, the team's graduating Eleanor Smith seniors and the Orange Bowl finale. I was born in Red Eagle in Osage Ponca City Ardent loyalists can spend hours poring County in 1925. My cousin sent me over the individual and team statistics; your issue of Okfahoma TODAY featur- reflections of OU's championship ing Osage County, and I was thrilled My pen pal and very good friend Eva teams from 1950, 1955, 1956, 1974 and with it. Harvey of Chickasha sent me your 1975 round out the book. I would like to subscribe to your March-April issue. I would like to The determination of the 1985 team lovely magazine. Reading it is like a thank both her and you for a fascinat- to bring home a sixth national champi- trip back home! ing magazine. At the same time, I onship trophy is characterized by se- would like to subscribe; I simply must Gloria Leland Shaw find out if you can make such interest- nior defensive tackle Jeff Tupper: Deer Island, Oregon "This year the coaches had us write ing and beautiful issues for a whole year! down at the beginning of the season I have read the May-June issue of what our goals were for the season, and Okkzhoma TODAY from cover to cover. Eva Jaderstriim I don't think there was a player on the It is all very interesting and your article Lobbo, Sweden team who didn't write down Big Eight on the Osages was excellent, very Championship and national champion- tastefully done and very accurate. I I think the magazine is wonderful. I ship. It's really strange how a group of sincerely congratulate you on the arti- have given gift subscriptions to several people can come together from all over cles and the magazine. friends and members of my family. the country and fit together like pieces Bill Martin The articles are interesting and infor- of a puzzle...this year all the right mative, and the pictures are excellent. pieces were there." Tulsa attorney Former Osage Tribal Council Thanks for your article on Discov- Member eryland in the July-August issue. I had an enjoyable evening there July 5th. Thank you for a great state mag- This has been dubbed the Year of azine. Oklahoma in Hawaii. We have a list of 505 Okies in the Sooner Club of Ha- Jerri Thomas City I was raised in Osage County and waii, and the list grows daily. Del attended OU, and I was more than The play Okfahoma! was sponsored Okhhoma TODAY welcomes letters from our excited to receive the May-June issue this summer by the Honolulu Commu- readers. Our only requirements: They must be signed, and we reserve the right to edit andlor of Okfahoma TODAY. nity Theatre. I will be signing a con- condense them. Send your comments to: Recently, I learned of a grandfather tract with a local radio station to Letters, Ok/ahoma TODD4Y,P.O. Box 53384, who wrote the history of his life and broadcast all of the University of Okla- Oklahoma Cit)., OK 73152.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 5 part of the family. The whole family is in mourning now because Blondie, one @ of a matched team that EN drove for five years, recently went to the big mule barn in the sky. Standing in the mule pen with Nick, the other half of the big palomino team that stood about 15 hands and weighed in at 985 (Nick) and 1015 (Blondie), EN demonstrates what made this pair stand out. "Come here, Nicky," he croons, holding out his arm with his forefinger extended at mule nose level. "Come here and bump it." Within seconds, ol' Nick comes and bumps. Then EN takes hold of Nick's tail and winds one of his own legs through and around the rear ule Headed. Stubborn as a be muleskinners wouldn't make a wart two of the animal. "This is a no-no mule. Kicks like a mule. on a rea/ muleskinner's behind. First, with most mules," he explains, "But More guts than an army many who use that title do nothing me and Nicky correspond." mule. These and many more than ride mules. According to They clearly do, but not always per- Mother common phrases in which the EN, that's not enough: "What's really fectly. To top off the show, EN walks mule is a negative point of comparison a muleskinner is one who goes out and around to face Nick and says, "Now for unpleasant human behavior bother works mules, drives 'em by line, let me see that foot, son." This time, Erwin Householder of Sulphur, known makes 'em log or plow or pull a wag- though, Nick doesn't move. After re- to most of his friends as "Big EN." Big on." Second, a real muleskinner has peated ignored urgings, EN finally Erv is a muleskinner, you see, and respect for his animals. Erv separates nudges Nick's front foot with his work- having spent over 50 years working the skinners from the boys when he boot and says downright sternly, "Give with the much maligned mule, he explains that, "I might have to paddle it here." Nick does. EN pats him and knows they've been given a bum rap. their little behinds to make 'em mind, explains apologetically, "He's been a "A mule," Big EN declares in a soft but I'd never abuse one. I'd never hurt little contrary ever since Blondie voice that nonetheless suggests author- one. And when they mind or do some- died." ity, "is just as stubborn or mean or thing good, why I'll tell 'em they're a Nick and Blondie went through a lot smart as his trainer. Mules come to this good boy or a good girl. I've seen folks together, so it's no wonder he misses earth just like a baby; they don't know whip and whip on mules when the her. Big Erv and his wife, Viola, anything. Most of any mule's bad rep- mules would be doing everything they hauled the team to Washington, D.C., utation is the fault of his owner or could. If you want an animal to do for two weeks as the animal stars of the trainer. If a man goes out there and something and he does it, why that's 1982 Folk Life Festival sponsored by works with 'em and teaches 'em they'll all he can do. You've got to pat him the Smithsonian Institution. EN pull- do anything he wants. If he teaches and talk nice to him then." ing a two-horse trailer through the nar- 'em right." That "if' is, as usual, a big The language Big Erv uses to dis- row streets of D.C. generated a lot of word. The man makes the spirit'of the cuss his mules often sounds like that of interest, but Nick and Blondie pulling mule just as surely as the donkey and a father discussing his children. Even their wagon up and down the mall the mare make the body. though he has five human sons of his 17:aIEy got the goats of visitors. EN feels that many men claiming to own, all EN'S mules do seem to be Laughing in some disbelief even

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.-, J 6 Oklahoma TODAY i. k: though he's telling what he knows to and Viola organize and participate in full of sly comments and jokes that his be a true story, Erv recounts, "People several wagon rides each year. Most fellow muleskinners must love to hear would come up to me and say, 'What last from five to eight days and proceed him slowly drawl forth. Pointing to a are they? Are they jackasses, zebras or at around 20 to 25 miles a day. That dark brown mule munching content- camels? That's the three questions average insures that no mules get hurt edly away at his feed, he says, "I they'd ask me hundreds of times each and that no horseback riders who ac- bought that ol' poor mule there and got day. I couldn't imagine. They couldn't company the wagons get too sore to him looking stouter with feeding and tell a mule from a zebra or a camel. I tend to business. These folks act as worming, but I admit he's still poor. I finally went to the coordinators of the scouts who ride in the front and rear of worked him on this last ride, and they festival and had this girl to write me a the muletrain to control traffic when kidded me about him. I said, 'Look, I sign. It said, 'I'm a mule. My name is the wagons are forced to move for a got me a mule frame. I'm going to Blondie. I'm 9 years old."' If he'd distance along the highway. build me a mule out of him.' I call him thought about Washington's reputation Erv was also involved eight years ol' Frame on account of that." for horse sense, Big Erv probably ago in the creation of the big annual One of his favorite mule jokes goes would have made the sign himself be- 89er Days Ride. He says of himself this way: "This fellow had a team of fore he left Oklahoma. and Viola: "We prefer riding in the mules he drove to town and back, and Back home where folks know what wagon to the pickup two to one. We his wife knew almost to the minute they're supposed to, Erv works with went to Ardmore in the wagon not too what time he'd be back every time he his mules every day. At present, he's long ago and we saw buildings and went. One day, though, he was real got Nick, Katie, Sandy and Tennessee things we didn't know existed. And late coming in and she began to get Shorty to tend to. Across the road from we've been here for 40 years. If you go worried. When he finally showed up the mule pen are three sheds full of down the road in a pickup or car you and she asked him what had kept him harness of all descriptions that he must can see just a little ways and you don't so long, he answered, 'Well, them ol' keep up. Erv explains that, ''Just like have time to look at what you see. In a mules went right to town with no trou- humans who have everyday clothes wagon you can really look around." ble. As we were coming back we were and Sunday clothes, mules have got Big Erv sees no reason to get in any gettin' along the best we could when work harness and dress harness." He's hurry. If 20 to 25 miles a day is good we came upon the preacher walking also got to maintain the mulemobiles enough for his mules, it's plenty good down the road. He asked for a ride and he's built from the wheels up; these enough for him. got up on the seat with me. From then include a stage coach, a large covered Erv couldn't begin to tell you how until I dropped him off at the church, wagon and a small covered feed wagon many mules he's trained, but he can them mules couldn't understand a he pulls behind the larger version. Fi- say that in his heyday he'd break at word I told 'em."' Think about it. nally, there's the antique "Missouri least 20 pair a year. This lifelong voca- No matter what kind of language he Mule" wagon with wooden wheels and tion began when he was just seven might use to get them to do his bid- a spring seat to watch over. This pride years old and his daddy handed him ding, Erv really likes his mules. He of his collection has won him many the wagon reins. His dad, granddad was disturbed to find out that the trophies in parades and competitions. and great granddad were all muleskin- Amish don't have any use for mules Erv gets frequent use out of his ve- ners, and Dad Householder was espe- because they consider the hybrid ani- hicles as he's often called upon to give cially good with animals. "He told me mal "unnatural." Erv says he can't stagecoach rides at local events. Re- that a person has to be gifted," Erv help but believe that his animals are cent outings include one to draw kids remembers. "I think it was a gift to me some of God's finest work, even if it is to a summer reading program at the that I can handle animals the way I sort of once removed. That's why it local library and several to thrill excited do." Without bragging, Erv continues, pleases him that interest in muleskin- nursing home residents with a mock "I've had some mules I haven't been ning seems to be reviving. As for him- robbery and shootout as they amble able to bring to perfection, but I've yet self, he says, "If I have to quit my through town. He also uses his mules to run onto one I couldn't work. I had mules, I'll be ready to go. I tell my to break the occasional garden for one mare mule that several people friends, 'You may come to my house those who won't take no for an answer. bought and brought back because they and I won't have a bite to eat or a drop For a break, Erv and Viola take a couldn't make her work, but she'd do to drink, but I've got my mules."' DJ trip in, what else, one of the wagons. anything for me." The big wagon fully equipped with Maybe attitude has something to do Hme a nominee for "L'nrommon bed, propane stove and an air horn that with it. Erv is serious about what he Common Folk"? Write to KatAqn rlo lets people know something awesome does, but he's got a sense of humor Oklahoma TODAY, P.0. Box 53384, is coming this way is EN'S camper. He about himself and his animals. He's OkLahoma City, OK 73/52.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 7 I Photography by Phillip Radcliffe

Headin' and hdn' team mp~lsare bronzed into a sculpnmd stanAn'l/, a anmtfmm t4e split-second action in he ama. E?epace Arm, but the aim is the same: celebran'ng de West.For bo&5 ahtand cowboy, h4e Mdpaddens arejnn about one ding: 'We one want the kt."

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.. . , - ..I,. --- +*Ah By Charlotte RICHEST Anne Smith ROPING E ART SHOW big blue tent in the middle boys gather to do that same work for a share of of a cow pasture mirrors the the biggest winnings offered to champion ropers; blue of the October sky. in 1985, the purse reached $76,000. Each rop- Flags surrounding the adja- er pays $1,000 to try for the money, and the cent rodeo arena snap in McSpaddens add $10,000 to the pot. the breeze, dipping and "I had always wanted my own roping, and swirlingA like bright-colored birds. in 1976 I decided to have it," Clem McSpadden A rodeo cowboy backs his roping horse, says. (In addition to rancher, you can add the worth several thousand dollars from a trailer. Just titles of former U.S. representative and Profes- a few feet away, a bronze casting of a horse sional Rodeo Cowboy's Association announcer easily worth as much as its living counterpart to his name.) Donna started the art show two rests atop a bale of hay. years later. " This blend of cowboy activity-artistic and Says Donna: "We call it the 'Gathering of real-life-is the hallmark of an event called the World's Richest Calf Roping and Western Art Show. The combined event is held the second weekend in October each year at the Tub- Handle ranch owned by Clem McSpadden, not far from Oologah where Clem's great-uncle Will Rogers was born. The ranch, founded near Bushyhead by Clem's grandfather, has been in the McSpadden family since 1885. For more than 100 years, the sight of a cowboy capturing an escaping calf

by tossing a rope from the back of a running Each roper out of the chute has a chance to wtn at least $15,000 horse has been all in a day's work. Today, cow- What makes ded#erence? "Abiltty, lack andthe hone, "says Donna

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.D~~L$~OUJO~UMIUWYJ!Isq4s umpul liluo.ypv~$~auqtuo~ oya ~au?zSap!UD~W o 'ppoyo!u,I%r!~ Jo pow #y$ ww?l/mwys uo!ySII/~unu -uoau *rGtly/o19~5~3o uo uaoys aro suo!ymJapotu-~(~o~~tu'pvay4sng U! ara~.syodpua uopuo7 'uo,uoyuojq u! rduo~Bu!~apotu a# tfi0.4 of ranch scenes adorn buffalo skulls, as "The best ropers in the business are who was 1984 steer roping champion well as canvas and wood. An Indian invited here," Clem says. "This year and eighth in the calf roping, placed head emerges from a walnut block, there were 70. We buy 150 fresh calves fourth, winning $9,000. and a pony kicks up heels carved from each year, and before the first go- The power and action of the calves cherry wood. Among the woodcarvings round they are run through the chutes and horses streaking across the arena are both traditional poses and the styl- once and tied once. This makes for a echoes in the sculptures and paintings ized carvings of the late world-re- good, even set of calves." housed in the blue tent across the way. nowned woodcarver Willard Stone of As the roping gets under way, the Champion calf ropers and artists Locust Grove. crowd learns the pedigree of each rop- alike continue the traditions of the One of the exhibitors has inherited a er from both Clem and Rod Nicholas American West on land that has been a place in the show: Jason Stone, Wil- of Dewey, the current announcer. A working ranch for more than 100 years. lard's son. pickup-drawn trailer shuttles calves In art and real life the West comes "My father showed here every year from the catch pen at the far end of the alive the second weekend in October until he died," Jason says. "He always arena to the roping chute. Shouts of on the McSpadden Ranch at looked forward to it. It was a chance cowboys moving the numbered calves Bushyhead. for him to see old friends, both artists into the correct order mingle with the "We wanted only the best," says and cowboys." conversation of the ropers as they dis- Donna, "and we feel we got them."D After a slow start, Jason has taken up cuss the tactics of a particular calf on a - the tools of his father's art. previous run. "He tried for years to get me inter- The ritual adjusting of stirrups, coil- ested in carving, and I don't know why ing of ropes and tightening of cinches I wasn't," Jason says. "I got married is repeated before each cowboy rides when I was 19 and worked 11 years as into the box, settles his hat and nods an electrician. When I was 25 I finally for his calf, knowing full well he must started carving and have been doing it rope, throw and tie 350 pounds of full time now for seven years." sprinting, struggling beef in around 10 Bronze calves streak away from the seconds to have any hope of going to loop of sculptured horses and riders as the pay window. do their real-life counterparts perform- Winners come from both the Profes- ing just outside the tent. Some specta- sional Rodeo Cowboy's Association Getting tors prefer the art and some the action, and the International Professional Ro- There and both can wend their way from art deo Association. In 1985, competim A mlMon of woMs liuu show to roping and back by taking just from both snared the top four places mw Warn a*h gabto a few steps. in the 1985 roping competition. j0-jzatt. At least one group, however, can Tom Walker of Wynnewood, IPRA MGs&&~'mr' Tub-Handk Rod. almost always be found near the arena. calf-roping champion in 1984, walked Findig h rad is uuy; it's located Like every sport, calf roping has its off with $17,750, the top money. The 13 miks noktof Cbmnore on State veterans who used to participate and PRCA took the next three places. Dee H w 66. In tiny oiibge of now return to watch and evaluate. Pickett, Caldwell, Idaho, 1984 all- B11sb'L4lookforh 'WorMs Ridat While the younger versions of the around champion and runner-up for and Art and acit 72e Great American Cowboy demonstrate the calf-roping title, placed second and to he paraikl aam mad. am sin on he rmt s& of h hi&ay. their skills in fair weather or down- won $13,000. A pair of Durant brothers 72e a*n pa hFrr r*m ol pour, the older ones discuss and com- took third and fourth. ROY Cooper, MInua~mt~~apeoffir rndat pare. Is this cowboy strong enough to who was the 1984 calf-ro~ingchampi- 6:30 p.m. &t 10. Roping $loris at noon throw bigger calves in winning time? on and runner-up for he fwo following hys. Tick& for he mping Will that horse be able to hold his placed third with $1 1,000. The junior compen'n'on can bc puhcd at hgarc; footing in the mud? Opinions line up roping held the first day of the event is cost is $7.50 for a box scot and $6 for on either side. Who remembers the named for him. Clay Tom Cooper, mwal aa'mission. first time he saw a calf roped and tied Owmight mmmoahtions an in 10 seconds? The old cowboys relive avaikabk in Ckamnon, or, for dose who Fm-hnce wriar C'docAnne Smi1 8jq urnping, 10 m;h+ their own exploits as they watch, pen- lives in Nowah. Phillip hdkffe zi an , cil and program in hand. at cmk, an am of oOlog&bke. OkMoma-based phorograp/rer and For more infommion, call Ckm or The ranks of the ropers are as distin- vdW Prod~m worRsfmrn hk sMi0, Dona Mdp& at (918) 789-2408. guished as those of the artists. 15 Eart Pmd~mons,in Tuha.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 By Jane Beckman

protection of the Arizona mountains. If Geronimo had possessed the authority to speak for his people, he would have continued to fight the white intruders. But Geronimo was not a chief. His status with his people and his notorious reputation among the white population came from his courage and skill in

Geronimo was the most cunning of Indian fighters. The consummate guemlla, he was master of the quick hit and immediate disappearance. Born to a people who valued toughness in hand-to-hand combat, who honored males for their skill as killers and who bestowed status for success in war, Ge- ronimo possessed in multiple measure every quality the Chiricahua Apache

No one was more determined than Geronimo to preserve the Chiricahua land for the people. With the surren- der of Geronimo's group, the last strong opposition to the tide of white settlement was gone. Accused of murdering more than 2,500 people in Arizona alone, Geroni- mo and the Chiricahuas could not live safely on a reservation there. The only Indians officially to become prisoners of war, they were sent first to Florida, then to Alabama.

12 Oklahoma TODAY they got down on the ground and On Feb. 17, 1909, Geronimo drove He wanted to be buried in the moun- blessed it. They had not heard a coy- to Lawton to sell some of his bows and tains. Left in captivity, he said, his ote in all their years of exile. This arrows, then spent the money on whis- people would vanish. The name of his place was not home, but it was close. key. Coming back to Fort Sill he fell people would become extinct. In Alabama, Geronimo and other out of the wagon and lay for several Geronimo was not buried in the leaders thought to be potential trouble hours in the freezing rain. Geronimo mountains he fought so hard to keep makers had been imprisoned and kept died the next morning in the Post Indian land; his grave is in the Apache at hard labor. At Fort Sill they lived hospital. cemetery at Fort Sill. But in 1913, four with their families in villages scattered The 80-year-old warrior who had years after Geronimo's death, the across the military reservation. When survived a dozen battle wounds suc- Apache POWs were released. And he arrived, incensed newspaper edito- cumbed to a bad mix of old age, too their name is not extinct. We remem- rials called Geronimo "king of murder- much drink and pneumonia. He died a ber the Chiricahua Apache and their ers" and "sweet prince of fiery prisoner of war. most notorious warrior: Geronimo. destruction," but the old warrior In his last years Geronimo had caused no trouble at Fort Sill. is a principal building of the Fort Sill Museum complex. But Geronimo ac- In 1886, Geronimo allowed himsef to be photo- tually spent little time in the squared graphed before he escaped from auhon'ties. rough limestone building and then only to sober up from his periodic bouts of drunkenness. The Army put the Apache POWs at Fort Sill to learn- ing crop growing and stock raising. Perhaps because of the traumatic expe- riences in Florida and Alabama, these Indians who fought the imposition of commemomte fib 100i5 annivenary of & settled agrarian ways the longest made CIIPZU~Eof fir nibts most famous one of the most successful adjustments wamor wi2h &no d?ys of cwemonies, ahnces to the new life. and tours of de Fott Sill pun& wk Cnonimo and his band were hekd pnkoner. Indian agent reports glow with their It all begrm at 10 a.m. Sepr. 26 wi.h successes, particularly in melon grow- s& at Fort Silfs Cemm, & ing and cattle raising. In 1913, when bunk/ site of Ghnimo- and 0thApa& the Chiricahua Apache were finally kah. At 12:30 p.m., &iton am imied given their freedom, the tribal cattle herd sold for $300,000. Geronimo, because of age and repu- weupom will be Gip@ed. tation, was not required to participate 7% Dance of & Mountain SpPih in the farming activities. By the time and ohIndian ~~ will be performed the sly old Indian warrior reached Fort at 7 p.m. at fib Fort Sill Chifiuzhua- 4 Wann Spring Tribal in Sill he was, as nearly as he could esti- ?- ma mate, in his mid-60s. Instead of a farmer, Geronimo be- came a guest celebrity. He was in great( demand for fairs, circuses and side' shows. He made an appearance at the take fib Kq Gate mi fnrm World's Fair. He traveled for a time 44. A guard at Kcy Gate will with Pawnee Bill's Wild West Circus. om to fib various sita. Tribal He met President Theodore Roose- velt. He dictated his autobiography to S. M. Barrett. Mikdm I. C@om may be contacted Geronimo had photographs made of himself which he autographed and

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 13 lmide, the CIqton Counrry Inn /oak r zn ordinary home. But inside ...guests are in for a surprire. I BED & ~ BREAKFAST in Little Dixie By Marcia Preston Phrui~graphyby Mark Ernmns I -- me 'batroom," &tA it~vMpp VtAd mountains and the Kiamkdi her,is t& gahing pfaceforpesfi I Carpenters workcdfbur yeun to coarlpicte b3e inn, mirg wood and mcks from &e samuna'in~countryside. 1

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quarter century ago, discriminating travelers who passed through the I A Kiamichi Mountains stopped at the Hambay House, a tiny bed-and- breakfast hotel in the best European pmzon tradition. Sometimes a governor or senator relaxed there in the warm glow of the wood-paneled "great room" or dined quietly at tables set with crystal, linen and gold. The Hambay House was an island of _.- homey elegance rare in those hills. Today, the name has changed, but the Clayton Country Inn continues the Ham- bay House tradition, an example of America's renewed interest in charming old inns. An inn, as opposed to a chain motel, is thoroughly individual-an extension of the innkeeper's independence. Staying at land inns one summer, and Betty was cided to build the Hambay House in the Clayton Country Inn is like being a charmed by the tradition of personal the quiet beauty of the Kiamichi guest in the home of a perfect host. independence and top-quality service. Mountains on land they'd owned since State Highway 271, which winds With those same goals in mind, she the 1930s. through miles of tree-covered hills in took over the management of the Clay- In 1949, they began the main build- southeastern Oklahoma, crosses the ton Country Inn. ing of the Hambay House, hiring Roy Kiarnichi River a mile or so south of ?Some of our guests have been com- Penney from Clayton as principal car- Clayton, then rounds a bend. On a hill ing here for years," Betty says, "longer penter. Penney and his crew sawed to the left of the highway, the Clayton than we've owned the inn. We're and planed wood from the land and Country Inn emerges from the trees. A booked way ahead for most weekends, gathered native rock for the fireplaces. curved drive leads to a two-story struc- and we always have a full house during The building grew slowly, but the ture that looks like a venerable OMa- November because of excellent deer Hambay House finally opened its homa farm house. and turkey hunting in this area." doors in 1953. From the outside, the Clayton The register shows addresses from Mrs. Hambay, a plump, precise lady Country Inn gives little indication of Minnesota, Ohio, California, Pennsyl- with a taste for fine furnishings, built a its interior charm. But with the first vania-even Singapore. Nearly half reputation for excellent food served creak of the floorboards as the visitor the visitors are from Texas. from her large country kitchen. "She steps through the front door, time Some of those long-standing patrons was one of those white glove people, a shifts into slow motion. remember the inn as the Hambay perfectionist," says Patsy Butler, who A high, log-beamed ceiling and nat- House. Originally, it was the dream of worked for th&Hambays and still lives ural rock fireplace give character to the Glen L. Hambay, a journalist who near Clayton. "Her tables were always spacious reception room, inviting worked on newspapers in Guthrie, elegant." guests to sink into an over-stuffed chair Clinton and Cordell, and his wife, A quotation on the Hambay House and engage in quiet thoughts or pleas- Edith Wilson Hambay, an accountant letterhead described the Hambays' in- ant conversation. In one comer of the with offices in Oklahoma City. An tentions for their inn: "A bit of time for great room," a game table stands be- educated and well-traveled couple, tranquil living; a place to draw apart; to fore wide windows offering a view of they were in their 50s when they de- pause, to rest." the countryside. An open, knotty-pine Persimmon, nut, date and peach staircase leads to guest moms upstairs. trees still dot the grounds of the inn, The pine paneling spreads into a remnants of the Hambays' orchard. cozy, old-fashioned dining room, Twenty-nine years after opening, which is open for breakfist each morn- the Hambay House fell on hard times. ing, for dinner on Thursday through Getting The Hambays, in their 80s by then, Saturday nights and on Sunday at There found it impossible to keep the place noon. Seafood, steaks and frog legs are up. They retired to Wilburton, taking all their furnishings and antiques with them. Stripped to the walls, the inn itself was sold at a sheriffs sale in style of its own, some in homey Vic- Fmm McAbter, drive east on State 1981. Betty and Bob Lundgren were Hi&q I and tksouth on State among the unsuccessful bidders at that sale, but they kept in touch with the new owner and bought the inn from hi 18 months later. try, verdant in spring and summer, Betty had hoped to recover some of mottled with color in autumn, white the original furnishings, but the Ham- bays died soon after retirement and st of coffee or tea, juice and tongue- their belongings were kept by the im- ily. Now Betty frequents antique shops and estate sales, continuing her plans to restore the historic feel of the inn. "Some of the current furnishings -were here when we bought it (from the - . . . ---A1 - -

16 Oklahoma TODAY intermediate owner)," she says, "but "We ride through some beautiful duplexes that will provide eight to 10 we're gradually replacing them and country," says Jess Johnson of Tahle- more rooms. They'll have a logcabin adding antiques and accessories. I've quah, who arranges the semi-annual look, and we'll use native stone to tie found old-fashioned quilts for nearly all rides. "One favorite trail takes us to in with the inn's natural decor," she the rooms, and brass luggage stands. McKinley Rock." This craggy peak says. Now I'm looking for braided rugs." I overlooks a hazy, tree-covered valley Oklahoma has changed a great deal The Lundgrens own 135 acres of and provides an inspiring rest stop fol in the 34 years the Clayton Country scenic, natural country surrounding the the riders. Inn has stood among the trees of ttte inn. Trails wind through the woods "The inn is a good place to head- Kiamichi Mountains. Even here, life is like streamers strung on a Christmas quarter," Jess says. "There's a nice, faster-paced and complicated by tech- tree. Some are walking paths; others open grassy area for people to camp 01 nologies that didn't exist in 1953. But are ideal for exploring on horseback. park big rigs. The outdoor showers are travelers who long to return to a sim- The serene and unhurried pace that great after a day in the saddle. Riders pler, more personal style of lodging can Glen Hambay envisioned is still char- who don't have campers enjoy the ac- still wrap themselves in the leisurely acteristic of the Clayton Country Inn. commodations of the inn." comfort of the inn's "great room" and Except, perhaps, for the first weekend The inn has eight guest rooms, in- enjoy bed-and-breakfast charm, Okla- in May and the second weekend in cluding two cottages with kitchen facil- homa style. October when 70 to 80 riders and hors- ities. Sometimes all the rooms are es gather for a Kiamichi Country Trail booked for family reunions, retreats or Mama Pmzon, afree-hm whr Ride sponsored by the Green Country business conventions. And Betty from Edmond, k ako dte &or and Stables of Tahlequah. Then the mood Lundgren says plans for expansion are pub/isher of Byline. Mad Emmons owm is festive and full of adventure. in the works. "We're planning to build aphotography studio in McNa&r.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 17 --- - By Bob Gregory - -I -... gg-? - 4e - - .-c - - - - -7 - - - - - I I -I - - - fter another hard day in girls. But Slick persisted, and Wheeler took him in. = While they put away the buckboard, his wife scraped =- the backwoods of Creek up some leftovers, and then heeler steered his unin- = vited guest toward the open fire and listened to his=- - County, Tom Slick was story. - - Slick was an oil prospector, working with some=- - tired, cold and hungry*He area bankers to lease farmlands throughout the county. = =Was- l2 Yes, he said, he knew that the closest producing well= - from the nearest was 26 miles east, and, yes, he knew that everybody=- =town, Gushing, and making little thought he was crazy. That was his nickname- "Mad = - Tom" Slick. But he was convinced that this country= =progress Over tangled trails when would someday be part of a great oilfield. He had= -I - ~iothingto back up that opinion except an esoteric= he crossed Tiger Creek and ap- concept of geology that he hadn't been able to prove. = - In recent years, he'd drilled without success in the 40= proached a farmhouse. miles of territory west of Tulsa, and that had led to his= - other nickname, "Dry Hole" Slick. - - The house was small, built of logs and looked It had not been easy for him to stay optimistic. In=- -closedfor the night. But Slick stopped anyway and fact, he'd spent several months in Bristow asking for=- -askedfor shelter. The farmer, Frank Wheeler, said any kind of work to keep him going. But that despair= -he'dlike to help, but the place was barely big enough had faded. He was back, his confidence high. AU the=- --for him, his wife and nine children, eight of them signs were right, he told Wheeler. The- oil was there. = ., ------...... ---

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-7 - -H e hadn't been more sure of anything since he'd Tom Sk.6 (above) stad the fmzy that planted t~w-= come- to Oklahoma in 1907. wkin the CushingfteM, including the banks of the CCiamn River. - =I - Well, Wheeler said, he didn't know much about -I -oil,- but he could tell Slick a lot about failure. After the Before long, Slick was back drilling in the neigh-h -landrun of 1889, he had homesteaded about a mile borhood-three miles east of Wheeler's farm. His= -north- of Agra and worked 15 years, only to have partners in the lease syndicate, B. B. and M. M. Jones- nothing- to show for it. He wanted to leave Oklahoma, of Bristow, had agreed to finance a test called the: b- u t a banker suggested he stay and try again with a Tiger well. Slick went down 2,000 feet before he gave = -different- farm. He even lent Wheeler the money to do up. Another dry hole took his reputation even deeper. - i- t . That was 1907. After four years of struggle, he was Wise old veterans in their soft leather chairs in the= --again ready to quit and told the banker, Albert Ken- Robinson Hotel's lobby in Tulsa shook their heads. 7 worthyof Perkins, to reclaim it all-the few cattle, They had uied to tell him, had given him good:- --firm tools and the worthless 160acres. But the banker advice: There was no oil there. And they weren't- -refused,Wheeler said, and ordered him to suck it out. surprised to hear that the Jones boys had said no.-= --He was trying for a little longer, but even with the few when he asked for more money. No more expen-- -extradollars he made building storm cellers all over ments, no more capital, no more trusting in his judg-=- --the Cimarron Valley, he knew he couldn't survive. ment, especially when he judged that the next place=- -N o t even the grocer would give him credit. to drill was the Wheeler farm. - - Slick left early the next day carrying Frank It was a setback, and Slick felt dejected-and- -Wheeler's lease. As he pulled away, the farmer called determined not to give up. He had seen lots of good= out,"How old are you, Tom?" Slick replied, "Twen- oilmen do just that, and the sequence was always the=- same:-- dry holes, no money, no friends, self-doubt,- -- - - .a -7 - capitulation, steady work behind a dry-goods counter Unlike the storekeepers, Frank Wheeler's faiLl1.--- and misery ever after. had required no investment, and he gave it freely, He rode to Cushing and met with merchants, having nowhere else to turn. His confidence in Slick=- blacksmiths and storekeepers. He began his patter turned his meager income into a millionaire's purse. = with the good news. Evidence of oil had been discov- His poor old farm brought him revenues that reached=- ered in the Tiger well, and it was likely all around. He as high as $1,000 a day, but it never changed him-at= was close to finding a vast pool and wanted to look least not for the worse. He moved his family to a big=- next on the Wheeler farm. If they would help him, $15,000 house in Stillwater, gave his children their= he'd give them a half-interest in all his leases, and if own farms and sent the five girls still at home to=- he struck it they'd be fured for life. Then the bad Oklahoma A&M. He and Mrs. Wheeler toured the= - 7 -news: He needed $8,000. They thought he was crazy world, spent summers in the high Rockies and winters= -and turned him down. in Florida, bought two cars, remembered all their= - Slick had one other hope, and he lived in Chica- friends, kept their heads and never came close to= go. The frustrated prospector borrowed a hundred running out of money. - dollarsfor train fare and meals and several days later Albert Kenworthy, the banker who had forced=- -explained his plan to C. B. Shaffer. A man who loved Wheeler to stay put, -was paid off in cash. But the=- -a gamble, Shaffer had made millions in the oilfields of familv went further. Thev offered to share their good= - u - -Pennsylvania, where Slick had met him. Impressed by fortune-all of it-with the man who'd made it possi-=- Slick's- zeal as much as by the geology he was spout- ble. But Kenworthy, a rarity to the end, refused. A= -ing, Shaffer let him have the $8,000 in return for new hat, some shoes and a new suit were all he'd=- -heavy interests in 1,000 acres of leases around the accept. - ,- Wheeler farm. - - Like Shaffer, Slick had grown up with the oil - Frank Whtvkrhad nothing to lose denhe kst Tom S/ick (or 'DryHok" =- = business in Shippenville, Clarion County, Pennsylva- S/id as he was known hen) dd/on hicfann. me Whee/ers/%din he= nia. Born on Oc% 12, 1883, Slick took his first steps in fadouse ((below)wid their nine diki.. .SIicR's discwtry made him= an oilfield. His father. Tohn Slick. was a none-too- milkonaim, and he WkImfamily (right) moved to town. - successful drilling contkitor, and Slick left school at 11 to help the family-peddling newspapers, stove polish and chickens uhtil he was ild en&gh for roust- about work in the fields of West Virginia." When that market declined, he came west, drifting down into Oklahoma with the ambition to make a million dollars. The Wheeler #1 started drilling in January 1912 and struck oil on March 10, opening the great Cushing field and earning Slick and Wheeler permanent places C- in oilfield annals. Shaffer, the ~ones-esand the& new partner, C. J. Wrightsman of Tulsa, all made millions in the frenzy that followed. The Cushing shopkeepers did all right, too, but they never recovered from having turned down Slick's offer. - - - The good years passed slowly, and Wheeler re- been opened and there is considerable mystery sui- - -turnedoften to Drumright, the town that grew up near rounding it. The territory is roped and armed guards = =his- old farm-and to Cushing, Perkins and Bristow- are posted allowing no one a close inspection of the - -to talk about old times and good luck. Sometimes he welt but from the owners-are making it - -was asked what it all meant and he'd answer that if would seem that something more than a small well has -7 anybody- ever knocks on your door late at night, take been brought in." That sa&e day the Cuhing Democrat him- in. - reported, "No Longer Doubt. Absolute Certainty. -= - ~hafferand Slick B&~in Well." - =- The folklore accumulated fast, but no tale was Cushing, the nearest railhead, throbbed from in- = discussed- as often as the stunt Slick pulled when the coming troops of oilmen, eager to get to the well site - well- came in. He knew that once word of the discov- and ready to hustle the countryside for leases. But = Illlery got out, the whole area would be overrun by other when they got off the train, they found there was no - -oilmen buying up leases. There were two ways to way to travel farther. - --keep them out: maintaining secrecy and tying up When the well got close to oil, Slick managed to -7 -transportation. Total secrecy was out of the question; put a lock on transportation. His and Shaffer's leasing = --in fact, the Tuha WorM speculated two weeks before agents roamed at will for a week without competition. - -t h e discovery that the well had struck oil. But it didn't The Oil and Gas Joumaf put it this way: - --have proof, and that was crucial to Slick's plan. "Every livery rig in Cushing has been hired by - - And 11 days after the strike, the Oil and Gas them and it's impossible to get a conveyance from that = =Journa/,- the industry's most-read publication, said, town to drive around. The notary publics are also- - -"This well was completed several days ago but has not under contract to the well owners and it's impossible = - to obtain their services. They are leasing thousands of = acres and there's nothing anybody can do about it. It is ----.I certain that if a good well results these gentlemen = - have made a killing." - Slick had been even more thorough. Besides =- Cushing, he had tied up most towns surrounding it. - - Every rig in every stable and every notary public was -= - either pressed into service or sent on vacation. - - Not all the land Slick and his partners leased was =- - I - choice, but they still had an empire that started pro- - - j - ducing instantly. - ="q- The euphoria didn't last long-Slick and Shaffer - - soon fell out over leases. Slick also severed his rela- = - '3 tionship with Jones and Jones, and, taking a cut of- - $250,000, left the field in the fall. Facing a nervous = - breakdown and other assorted ills-his doctor said he = - was about to die-Slick chose as a cure a tour of the - Orient. He departed in September 1912 instructing his -= -EL superintendent that, regardless of what happened, he - was not to hear about it, doctor's orders. Thus, he lL - - -- -

------Once the bow in Gding &gun, @tzxkton lookingfor bkck gohi in 1912 coukif't waitfor ~%&&es rnaZe Cimamn River to be built. ------= -didn't- know that the value of his holdings had multi- about 20 of his personal friends and takes them down -plied 25 times by the time he returned eight months in two special railroad cars with cooks and a clubhouse = --later, feeling fit and eager to swing back into action. on the shore, and everything is free for 20 days or -Witha reporter beside him, he took a buckboard early more. No one is permitted to buy even a cigarette. His = -that morning from Bristow and headed north, moving last vacation of that kind cost him exactly $23,000." 1 -slowly7 all day. Said the B&tm bd,"He saw, Pictured as a chain smoker and an all-night pen- -= =where once he rode through the fields and forests and ny-ante poker player, Slick was a man to whom praise, = -countryhomes fir between, a great oilfield with hun- clothes and dry holes meant nothing. The goal of his II .- dreds of tanks and tons of equipment and hundreds of life was to find oil. And if he did, that was usually -derricks, many of which belonged to him. He rode payment enough. The money no longer mattered, if it =into the field Saturday and spread out before him were ever had-after that first million, of course. - -vastriches that he made possible-and his first sight Not long after the eye-popping sale in 1929, Slick o f it." was back purchasing leases and figuring where to drill, = - Slick's impact on Cushing was almost over. He particularlyin the Oklahoma City field. Within a year, I. -wouldsell not long afterward for $2.5 milIion, only to he was worth $75 million. That's how much he left his = -plunge again and assemble holdings worth $9 million wife and three children when he died unexpectedlyon -more,then look for other oilfield challenges in Texas Aug. 14, 1930. - -and- in Oklahoma's other great fields. After the Cushing find he was called the "oil - By 1929, with luck and business savvy, Slick had industry's youngest millionaire." A decade later, he = -built an oilfield principality he sold for $35 million. was "King of the Wildcatters." At his death, he was I -Justafter the sale, he bet his friends that within a year, the biggest independent oilman in the world, the man = -hIe would be the leading individual oil producer in the who said, "I only did what I believed in. That made it -United States. all worthwhile. My beliefs, my risks, my failures, my - - It was then that Slick granted an interview to the rewards." m=- -Kamas City Star, the only l&nginterview of his career. - -H e hadn't even talked to reporters since 1914. Bob Gregory, a Tuka ador and kitonh, wm& Oil in - "His only vacation," the article said, "is his annu- Oklahoma andpd~danddmM a &lmbion ab~tOW = -a1 hunting trip to Rockport, Texas. He always invites sh&'s most fmom indusny. ------=known frontier land into -=an international economic I -=force, and its elusive -=promise lured optimistic I -=men and women to search -=for it. Some found it; most' -=didn't. But their spirit and - -=stamina during the earliest discoveries sculpV m - I the character of the state, making it like no other. It all started in ... - = - - -- - Texas plains and acquired the reputa- - tion for being willing to bet on any- - - thing-the bigger the bet the more he - liked it. His money in the early years ""1p - of The Texas Company was crucial to its growth, and he had come to Tulsa to inspect Texaco's holdings in the - Glenn Pool oilfield. -7 - His field superintendent, Jim Grif- - fin, felt Gates was too influential to - bump along in a buggy down muddy - roads, and the oilman's view would - have to be from the field's highest -- point during a candlelight dinner at - dusk. Griffin hired the chef from Sa- -=John W. "Bet-a-Million"- Gates pulpa's Harvey House restaurant to -was on the scene. He had made his plan a menu, hooked up a gas range, Spum'ngb/ackc/ouds, t/legoa/ofee~er?,pmper-- -first fortune in barbed wire on the built a tent, ordered china and linen tor, meant prospenry andfurfi/Mdmms. -= - - . . .

' - aff with millions, and Glenn Pool's m-=- -- - tot included some oilmen whwens an= - to bigger things. However, mast of - - field's sum, inalding Galbreath, wae- - flashes in the pa. - It did provide momentum, though,- - for a couple of tough visionaries, the=- most notable being Hqhlairair He- came to the feld lare but made plenty= 1 of maney. He started Tulsa's Ex- - change National Bax& the first d= bank of America, "'the credit mt4 1 WQO&d t3h& @ NRd ftl (illWIII YO04 VRIMfWtW-- S P7SC mqOf @u&, the oilfields, " "d his pres.sewe- strengthened big dreams. Josh Wenl--

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-bridgeacross the 14tkari9as River, a L -hospitable opinion of business and the :kbinson Howl. Never a boom town -for ailfield waken, Tulsa preferred oil - m=- -Here yxw will meet operators from Oil - --Creek, CmCmk and every other - --meek (&athas appeared on an oil map - .--since the days of W. Drake. If you :want to make a deal ten to oneyou will - --have to seek your man amid the throng - -in the Robinson Hotel lobby. If he is --in ttie oil business he will be there." - - -

much oil that it built a new 55,000- spread, he was beseiged by promotersw:== barrel tank every 24 hours for 114 and beseeched by potential wives. He was finally spirited away by a 35-year- A witness to the pandemonium was old divorcee from Lawton (and oil Fred S. Barde, a stringer for the Kansas scout in the Cushing field), Mrs. Anna City Star: "Here is a wagon with six Laura Lowe. She took Barnett to Kan- = horses pulling a steam boiler, next sas-kidnapped, according to much of- - comes a wagon creaking and straining the press-and married him in Coffey- = under a mass of wire cable. On they ville on Feb. 23, 1920. Reporters- - come, wagons loaded with steel pipe caught up with the smiling pair the - for the oil wells, lumber for derricks, next morning. - lumber for stores and dwellings and Q: "Jack, did you know you were=- merchandise for storekeepers. This getting married?" - highway (from Cushing to Drumright, A: "No." -__I :Just before Christmas in 1915, called the 'road from Jericho to Jerusa- Q: "Where did you think she was- - II :Lee Patrick, a Stroud banker, stood a lem') has been beaten as hard and as taking you?" II I Emile west of Oilton on a high bluff flat as a floor." A: "She say cum' um, see oil." -'overlooking the Cimarron River. He Leases in Tiger-the nation's rich- Q: "Why did you stay with her?" - --had been there 30 years before with a est township in 1915-became the A: "Me sick, no think, me sleep=- -hunting party. "It was a wonderful frenzy of the field. At Gushing's high 'um." - sight then," he said. "Deer by the tide, the Indian landowners were each Q: "Well, you're married, Jack. -= -hundreds, thousands of wild turkeys, worth between $2 and $3 million. How do you feel?" He was then 78. - =and bears were plentiful. And as long However, the lease that stunned A: "All right. Lots sleep. Lots eat,- - a s I live I will never forget that De- both oilmen and observers belonged to lots warm." - =cember- morning, a bunch of deer feed- Jackson Bamett. In 1916, Fred Gilles- To escape the clamor, they moved= ingin the valley, unafraid, believing pie and Gypsy Oil brought in the Jack- to Los Angeles to live in a colonial- - that- the hills that surrounded them son Barnett #11, which started at mansion on Wilshire Boulevard. While= would- protect them." 4,000 barrels a day and climbed to Mrs. Barnett stayed inside to see that- =- Now the valley had more million- 14,500. The lease produced $24 mil- the servants' uniforms were well- airesthan deer, and the thick oak and lion and made Barnett the richest Indi- starched, Jack sat out on the corner- - =hickory- forests looked different. an who ever lived. He couldn't read or and waved at cars. Sometimes, wear-= "Blackened," according to another ob- - 6 - -server, "and made ugly with oil and g - --fires that have destroyed the under- B - -brushand deadened the trees, while - --the Cimarron flows oil the greater part E - -o f the time instead of water. The en- - =tire district has been commercialized 3 - b-y men who are money mad." o3 - =- Patrick's vantage point overlooked - thenorthern limit and richest part of I - 7 $ - theCushing field, which, since open- - ingat Drumright in March 1912, had - - -7 grownto 32 square miles and within - three- years produced more than 75 - million barrels annually-nearly 20 -7 percent of the oil in the U.S. Wooden derricks 1n average of DmpIr'ght,- a boom tow# in the CashingfieM, jloan'shed wrrh the or/ MA,- thm disappeaml. ------9P- -iM ,.-,.I-..Am------1

--- - = ing a blue serge suit and whits -2and sooh, his pnc$et" stuf@dwith d- -, gars, he'd vcnnues~ the intersectian and direct trafic. em. But b wzls willing o =L , He died in 1934 at age 92. The -estate was in litigation for almmt a -, decade before it w finally divided -Iamong Indian relatives. Mrs. Bamen -got nothing. was asked. - Most of the wealth from Gushing "Oh, yes, I was in Twk =-Eound its way co Tulw. What Glenn it was gating to be a fine -Pool began, Cushing canfinned and i.ll improved. But oil's lure did not dazzle A - -everybody. - 1 - Hb name was Jesse Vm Dazing. -He was 53, looked 33 and had lived near Dmright on Cnxek far tl -__I --- years. Greeting visirom in the shadow -of pumping derricks, wearing overalls -F =and a cane hat, he would take them -into his +plfdugout, 6-by-g feet, and =cook over an open fire if he had any -meat. If not, he and his guests ate =-bread and butrer and molasses pud- -I___ ding. Afterward, thepr'd leave the dirt -flaor and retire a, the shade of plum -, ~eesout by the mrghum patch and ---rVan Deering would rhapsodize: "I -~-.lrhave all the money I want. I &ver -w a n t any more, no more oil because -I'd only give it away. 1 make a living --; wFithaur it." . The oil production on his placc -dmuld have made him millions had he -h- *wed its development, but he leased - --. .------, .------.- - - d - - - <---< ------von't smoke or go to a picture show. 5 and led to prices that went through the - Otherwise he's OK." - Garrett also inspired purple prose. 8 'miready the talk of the country, the =- -The Healdton field's chief contempo- 3 tribe found that much better times = -= rary historian, William Krohn, the oil 5 were coming at the sale in 1921. The -= -editor of the Daily Admode, wrote in oil companies paid more than $7.2 mil- - = 1921: "Buck is loved by his men, by 3 lion in bonus money alone, with Prai- -= - he citizens, even by the outlaws rie Oil establishing a short-lived top - -~ h o hem apprehends and battles. 6 bid of $800,000 for 160 acres. But the = Buck- is not cold-blooded; in fact, he 8 high drama that day was between Har- - -h a s a warm heart. When the obser- H.V. Foster ry Sinclair and Osage partners William = - G. Skelly and Frank Phillips. Sinclair -vance of the law requires that he con- - -finea man in jail, Buck's mind is led to nues were shared equally among the had arrived in his private railroad car - -think- of the mother of the person 2,229 Osages on the tribal rolls. Each from Tulsa, surrounded by aides who- -whom he confines, and as a rule, his share was called a headright. called him "Chief," prepared to spend- - 7 -firstremarks are expressions of sympa- > It was for eight headrights that Fair- - -t h y for her." fax cattleman William K. Hale had a - Garrett was removed from office in whole family killed before he was 6 -1922. He left his wife and drifted out caught in 1926. The plot, called the 8 -of- sight before he died in 1929. "Osage Reign of Tenor," sent Hale :: .. - Ballew went much earlier. On a - and his co-conspirator and cousin, Er- g drunkenspree in Wichita Falls, Texas, nest Burkhart, to prison for life. o- n May 5, 1922, he refused to hand In 1896, all of the Osage Nation was over- his gun in a chili and domino leased to H.V. Foster, a New York --parlor and was killed by a former Tex- speculator who organized the Indian -a s Ranger, five bullets to the head and Territory Illuminating Oil Company. -chest. When that blanket lease for the county -7 expired in 1906, a new oil policy start- I - ed public auctions. Beginning in 1912, +CZ domjnahf Osage Co@nO- , oil companies were required to bid bo- rrs Indians d~WOMSrichst gmup of peoph. - r nus money for the right to drill and to - =A -7 pay one-sixth royalties from all subse- $2 million for lands that his geologists- I quent production. had convinced him would return twice =- The first auctions were held on the that. By the time Walters offered Tract - Indian Agency grounds at Pawhuska 32, which was near Marland's discov- = under an elm tree, since memorialized ery, the richest part of the field, both - as the "Million Dollar Elm," for those Sinclair and Skelly were ready to = sales that exceeded a million dollars. battle. - The auctioneer was Colonel Ellsworth Walters called out 32, and the bid = Walters of Skeedee. opened at $50,000. Quickly, the price -= - Walters had a deep voice and quick shot to $300,000. Then the bidding - - eyes. Everybody said he had a head for belonged to Skelly and Sinclair, sitting -= -Ifigures and strutted on stage like a ham only two seats apart in the orchestra of - - actor. His fee for each auction was $10. the theater, its lights directed toward =- -Since 1905, oil has made the In eight years of auctions, the Osage the front rows and stage. - -Osage tribe the richest Indians in the earned $27 million, and Walters took "Who'll give three hundred ten- - -world. But not until the Burbank field home less than $140. But he wore a big thousand dollars?" asked Walters. - -opened in 1920 on the farm of Bertha I diamond ring, a gift from the tribe. "Three ten, three ten!" - Hickman- in western Osage county did In 1919, E. W. Marland picked up Sinclair rose slowly, quieting the- -they become plutocrats, with some the lease that opened the field. He crowd. With all eyes on him, he spit- - families'- incomes soaring to nearly paid only $2,000 for it, but it produced out each syllable: "Four hundred thou-= -$40,000 a year. 1.6 million barrels of oil by 1925. That sand dollars." - The tribe's mineral rights were held lease lured other oilmen who had long "Gentlemen," said the auctioneer, =- in common, and all gas and oil reve- thought the western Osage was bare his mouth watering, "I have four hun-- - ., s "- &., A- - -> . - . -A- a- -t - * .- - on ii- -,quence of ones to $662,000. - 1- "~t'ssix sixty-three," the auctioneer 1 4 cried, recognizing a nod from Skelly. "Six sixty-three, three, three, six hun- dred and sixty-three thousand dollars, six sixty-three. Sixty-three?" And Sinclair let Skelly have it. Skelly and Phillips started produc- tion on the lease in April 1922, and in five years it produced 816,445 barrels of oil. Good but not spectacular at I $1.06 a barrel. The all-time record was set on May 19, 1924, with the Midland Oil Com- pany. The company paid nearly $2 This field, known fi its high= million for a lease that paid back less grade oil and the state's fiehest welt,- 1. than half of the investment. was discovered in mid-1921, seveR But the Osage headright was now a miles south of Tonkawa on the J. H.- - record, too: $13,200 in 1925. Smith farm, a school lease. - This led to some fancy spending for - "Several of our townspeople were1 cars, clothes, pianos, houses and other there," said a local paper. "And to say= =/ion Dolh Elm" & Osage MIMA?Carlo. -I necessities. In one month in the mid- they were excited only states it in its- -. JI '205, when a pound of steak cost mildest term." One of the observers= -dred. Who'll give me fifty? Four fifty, quarter, one Osage spent more tha "stood upon the brink of the pool of oil* -four fifty?" $2,000 on food. that soon formed and as he gazed upon-- - Skelly stirred, turned to his right for "It is this kind of thing," said a its velvety greenness he gave a pro-= a few words with Murrav Doan. a vice- Indian agency official, "that will mak longed shout of joy. Stooping, 'Cap- - -president of Phillips, and said clearly, the Congress rethink all this money. Rock' Jimmie cupped his hands and3 -"Fourhundred and one." The Osage replied, "I only bu dipped them into the pool and bathed- - Within seconds, the bidding escalat- what I need." his smiling countenance with oil. And= .- ed to $500,000, and Walters paused to "Well," said the official, "I have d why not? Hath not the Psalmist said in-- -l e t the crowd catch its breath. Then: people in my family and I spend onc his songs of praise: Thou anointest my- - "Who'll give six hundred thou- seventh as much for food as you do. head with oil; my cup runneth over.,,=- -sand?" he asked. The full-blood cleared his throat an But not a mention of E. W. Mar- - "Six hundred," said Skelly. said, "You white people live lik land, whose Comar Oil Company had- - - And then it was 601, 602, 603 and dogs." brought it in. Comar, a word formed- from Companies of Mariand, ' would- dominate To-, along-@& tern Wentz, Josh Cosden, Tern-Sick ag- Gulfs Gypsy Oil, which never seemed3 to miss the boat. As the field moved north toward the- Noble and Kay county line, lots o wheat farmers who had struggled since.=I. the Run of '93 opened the Cherokee= Outlet became millionaires. One who-- didn't, though, was G. Lee Shawver. He sold his farm and four-room farm- house surrounded by fir trees to Capt. D. H. Clark for $7,000 in early 1921, and the day the field came in took3 possession of a new home on Grand- Avenue in Tonkawa. His farm became= ------. - -, ------.. ------I ------#------d him a new Ford for a half-inter- May 1923, she was receiving $6,000 a

in his royalty; another offered day. She gave two-thirds of it to the - -i ,000. He refused both, but, at the boys. The other third went to her sis- :--=

after formations the wells encounte They yielded the highest grade Oklahoma had ever seen-42 co dized in large part by it-and where = pared to Cushing's 38-and its average price of $3.15 per barrel

ansion in Ponca City. He bought that "fortune favors those who deserve - -7 -- "1 -E ad lots of worry lines on her face -- years of hard times. Aside from -- -- cows, churned butter, fed - -7 - nough, she left the farm for them to -

-kids- hanging to her apron, and

Sam McKee, his neighbor just

years he felt disgusted and threaten But it almost did. He had drilled=- to quit. He had leased the farm to t - dime an acre. It seemed at last - - = -1_ - -r*,

* ( I_- -I_ - -0~LfinunZq- CITY A

prices, had wells spring up inside city= limits and derricks on the grounds - miles south of town, a climax to a 35-=- Since 1889, somebody had usually= been looking for oil, but haphazardly= and in all the wrong places. If early-- drilling had concentrated on locations= to the southeast, Oklahoma's oil devel--- opment and distribution of wealthe

ma City could have been the oil capital 'A- i ------I___.-.- - 8 were recurring rumors of illegally run - - 1 2 -a - o or "hot oil." Claude Barrow, the oil - 8 editor of llre Daily Okfahornan, estimat- --a !$ ed thqt 2.5 million barrels left the $Id - seEtl:ie field's growth approached 3 sidewalks in residential areas, citizens voted on three separate occasions to let "3 E the wells proceed. Those homeowners 2 who turned up their noses at royalty riches if it meant destroying neighbor- - hoods, who objected to oil wells near - schools, playgrounds, churches and - hospitals, were shouted down. "Ene- - mies of progress," they were called, and the wells kept coming. If the town got in the way, the majority seemed to - say, move the town. - E. W. Marland, elected governor af- - ter he lost his oil fortune, watched in would be ruined forever: - dismay as the wells encircled his own "It will be a mining camp while - office. He thought oil beneath the production holds and will be only a= -forh'- mB~ngarp'osive oi/fieMm. - - Capitol and other state buildings was burnt place on the hills afterward, for- - being drained and suggested a drilling where oil has been little ever grows=- -overproduction. But operators in Okla- program to save it for the state. When again." - -homa City didn't think so and spent the city council of Oklahoma City dis- The choice, said the national press, -= -$100 million on drilling and $60 million agreed, he summoned the National was between oil and beauty, wells and- =for pipelines, and after two years the Guard, and 45 oil wells sprouted zinnias, derricks and redbuds, be-=- -f ield had 368 wells producing 125,000 around the Capitol. The revenues tween a black mist and clean clothes- -barrels daily. built other state offices. on the backyard line. But, for the third=- - The Mary Sudik broke loose on In 1936, a national magazine pre- time, the vote passed. Oil won and so- -March 26, 1930, and blew out of con- dicted that half of Oklahoma City did Oklahoma City. 7 - -t rol for 11 days, threatening fires and , -- =explosions and occasionally dousing $ F-:, a'$ *.&a- - - -the countryside as far south as Nor- 3 L*.#3 ' - - - . - .lri - -man. When it was finally controlled, 8 ' .d 1 - - 4 -7 -55 men plowed under oil-waked E --" 7 -ground for three square miles and op- - - -7 =erations resumed. Seven months later z - -another well went wild, and so grave 5 -- =was the fear of gas explosions that for - -t hree days much of Oklahoma City A - -couldn't strike a match or cook on the - -7 -kitchen stove. Even the North Canadi- g - -an River caught fire and burned - - @ - -bridges downstream. % - - Fueled by overproduction and the $ L = -Great Depression, the price dropped - -to 22 cents a barrel in 1931, an all-time L= -low. Gov. William H. Murray warned - - -7 -t hat if the price didn't rise, he'd shut - -down the wells. It didn't, and he did, - -holding out until the price reached 70 - =-cents. During the shutdown, there -.... mu.u.- -

"* LEGACIES By Kathryn Jenson White - We usually perceive of our Oklahoma oil barons as takers; after all, they spend most of their timc -and energy figuring out ways to remove black gold from our sub-strata. What we often forget, however, , - - -is that many of these individuals turn right around and look for ways to put the stuff, or at least the -= -money it converts to, back into the state. When you get right down to it, oil money, passed through 5 -complex foundations or simply handed over in the form of a personal check, is responsible for much o - - -=what Oklahoma has to be proud of. - - In three major areas-cultural, medical and educational-and in a number of others, Oklahomans -= -owe their oilmen gratitude. Many of the widely diverse gifts that have resulted from oil money are not - -immediately visible to the public, since we can't sightsee at a research grant or visit an endowed chair -= 7-at a university. Others are there, but not ostensibly so; small brass plaques are often the only reminders - I -- -- -, that many of the high-rise buildings in our major cities, libraries, airports, hospitals, medical centers - = -- -- -and educational facilities exist because of oil money. Many times even the plaques are missing. =- - At least some gifts from oil money are, however, visible and accessible to the public. Below is a -= -listing of only the most notable places that oil money, at least in part, has created for our enjoyment. -

- - -- -MUSEUMS AND National Register of Historic Places, Gilcrease the pride of T-town. Open = -CULTURAL CENTERS and its contents are as eye catching as its Monday-Saturday, 9-5 and Sunday, 1-5. - - exterior. Within the museum are an PHILBROOK ART CENTER, 2727 - -THE CHARLES B. GODDARD outstanding collection of Indian art, a 101 - CENTER FOR VISUAL & Ranch Room filled with memorabilia of S. Rockford in Tulsa. Oilman Waite - PERFORMING ARTS, First Avenue the world-famous Miller Brothers Ranch Phillips built this Italian Renaissance - villa in 1926. Surrounding it are 23 acres of and D Street, Ardmore. The Center and a D.A.R. Memorial Museum - -displays a permanent collection of presenting over 100 years of that formal landscaped gardens that are as = -contemporary western paintings and beautiful in season as any in the state. = organization's history. Open Monday- Inside the villa is an internationally -, features traveling exhibits from national Saturday, 10-5 and Sunday, 1-5. = -galleries. Open Monday-Friday, 9:30-4 and important collection of American Indian art = -Saturday, 114. and an impressive display of Italian - THE KERR MUSEUM, six miles Renaissance paintings and sculpture. Open - WOOLAROC, 14 miles southwest of southwest of Poteau. Set in the beautiful Tuesday-Saturday, 10-5 and Sunday, - Bartlesville on State Highway 123. Sitting countryside of eastern Oklahoma, 1-5. - in the midst of a 3,500-acre wildlife Robert S. Keds home now houses a - museum that depicts the development OKLAHOMA MUSEUM OF ART, = refuge, Frank Phillips' lodge is now a first- 7316 Nichols Road in Oklahoma City. The rate museum with art and artifacts that of that area of the state and a conference = chronicle the development of man in the center available for public use. Open Frank Buttram mansion, which serves = as the oermanent home of the OMA. was= United States. Open Tuesday-Sunday, Monday-Saturday, 10-5 and Sunday, 1-5. built with one man's oil money, then - --- ~- ~ ~~ 1n-< A" ". - - THOMAS GILCREASE purchased and donated with that of two - -THE PONCA CITY CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN others. The museum now houses - -, CENTER & MUSEUM, 1500 E. Grand. HISTORY & ART, 1400 Gilcrease paintings, drawings and sculpture from the - -This lovely mansion was the first home Museum Road in Tulsa. The collection of 15th co the 20th Centuries. Visitors will - -of E.W. Marland. It's listed on the western art housed here makes the also find frequently changing special = THE DRUMRIGHT OILFIELD

I_ - THE KIRKPATRICK CENTER, --

HIEF BACONRIND & COLONEL WALTERS STATUE, six miles -

Kirkpatrick presents exhibits of Indian, - THE NELLIE JOHNSTONE OIL ton statue made of a mixture of melted WELL, North Johnstone Avenue in Bartlesville's Johnstone Park. On this site was drilled Oklahoma's first

-, Oklahoma City. Judge R.A. Hefner's -prestigious family mansion was given to the FIRST NON-COMMERCIAL OIL -Oklahoma Heritage Association in 1970. -The first two floors are completely restored -and open to public viewing. Also -housed within the mansion are The replica of an old-fashioned oil well.

-Hefner Memorial Chapel and the -Association offices. Open 9-5, except -Sundays and Holidays, 1-5. -7 MABEE-GERRER MUSEUM OF 1930s furniture and decorative

retreat with waterworks, a variety of trees, well-kept flower beds and several notable pieces of outdoor sculpture. - - -

houses the Tulsa Ballet Theatre and PIONEER WOMAN STATUE &

THE TRIANGLE OIL & he finest honor that can fall to a T college football coach and to his team and fans is to win the national championship. - - - Two University of Oklahoma coach- By Harold Keith es, Barry Switzer and Bud Wilkinson, together have plucked six such plums Harold Keith, 83, may hold the world's record for attending more from the tree of opportunity. This year OU football games than anyone else-he served as Sports Inforrna- Switzer will reach for his fourth and tion Director under 10 coaches. Here, he brings you memories of the school's seventh national champi- onship. Notre Dame leads the nation the men who brought six national titles back to Norman, and he with seven titles. wonders if the Sooners can win again this year to tie Notre Dame If the Sooners, quarterbacked by for the most championships in history. Can OU overcome the sophomores Jamelle Holieway and Eric Mitchel, can annex the big one in omen that the No. 1 team in September almost never takes home 1986 des~itethe fact the favorite sel- the trophy in January? The Sooners have done it before. dom comes through, Oklahoma will tie Notre Dame 7-7 for the most national championships won by a single school

34 Oklahoma TODAY in the SO-year history of the Associated better go now. I'm double-parked and Jadk HolW and minpony dn~nghe '85 Press Poll. I may get another year for that.' " Colorado ggamc. OU burt z% BuB, 314. Switzer, a tough, genial, honest guy Steve Davis, a redshirt sophomore who arose from the grass toots of &- quamrback from Sallisaw, came up "He cut his motor and cruised into the kansas, was the new Sooner Moses. hard and ht hmspring practice to end zone," was the way Johnny Keith, He proved himself a fighter in 1973, lead that 1973 team to glory land. Nei- OU sports publicist, described it. I hi first season as OU head coach. ther he nor Scott Hill, his rugged alter- Few people knew that the 190- I Three months before he took the job, nate, had played a down of varsity ball. pound Davis was a licensed Baptist 1 Oklahoma was placed on probation. Everybody wondered if Davis could preacher who flew his own plane. He Also, the Sooners lost 15 of their 22 cut it. sometimes made five trips a week dur- I starters from the previous season. Davis showed them. When ing off-season to speak at churches, I t 8'm IAl~mkpddescribed the situa- Switzer's new team belted Baylor 42- civic programs, athletic banquets and 12 in the 1973 opener, Davis quarter- alumni groups. I tion well: "Switzer addressed a Tulsa alumni group, his eyes rolling in tears. backed the Sooners on six touchdown "I know just two songs," he once Tm a fighter, I'm a competitor, I'm a marches, rushed 110 yards and scored told Bob Hurt, sports columnist of ?2e winner,' he said, 'and nothing is going two touchdowns. On his last one, Da- Dai4 OkMoman, "'Amazing Grace' to stop us.' Then easing off with the vis dashed around right end on the and 'Boomer Sooner."' disarming grin that became the mark option, cut back against the flow and With Davis in the pulpit, Switzer's of the man, he ended by saying, 'I'd exploded past the Green secondary. first Oklahoma squad fought Southern

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 thEoms,.", OL .w

, Dewey Selmon,, who weighed 257, was a truculent contender in those stout Sooner lines of '74 and '75. He 11 won a strong endorsement from his

" Roy," she scolded the Sooner staffers, "but I think Dewey is just as good." tion of Little Joe's slithery weaves. A Dewey bore her out by logging 104 contortionist who ran like a desert side- tackles his junior 'season. winder, that was Little Joe. That brings us to the most awesome It was Joe's custom to wear a pair of of this trio of Baptist brothers, LeRoy, f silver-hued shoes, trimmed in red, in the youngest, 6-foot-2 and 256 pounds. Sooner games. And they were tinted "Look at that big cat!" Switzer would ' by the little master himself. Aftcr each yell, grinning, when the coaches z game, Joe set up his palette and gave Qlayed movies of OU's games over and his shoes a fresh coat of silver. 'Good- over on the screen. "Whoom! He looking shoes help me play better," he jumps 'em, doesn't he!" LeRoy Selmon was valuable off the II Saitut he practiced in an old pair of field, too. He volunteered to work at I high-topped brogans, reminiscent of the Mid-Del Family Youth Center of the '40s and '50s. 'They protect my Oklahoma City, counseling yoqng peo- ankles better," he said. ple who had problems related qo drugs, A fierce uinity of brothers, the Sel- family and school. "Some of these kids Link? Jot Wdington, OUs mnning (and mons from Euhula, hubbed Oklaho- don't need help," LeRoy said. "All jumping) whk, &ad hk wq PW%tk 1974 ma's line in those days. The first they need is somebody to qp with Soomr ham to a tdona/dampionship. Jot I now phys for tk UniaFakons. Selmon was Lucious, a 236-pounder 'em." who today is a member of the Oklaho- Of Switzer, quarterback bwDavis, California to a 7-7 tie and then convert- ma coaching staff. Lucious was an All- said, "He's a motivator. There's some- ed nine consecutive opponents on American consensus middle guard thing about his personality that gets their way to an undefeated year. In during Switzer's first year. Noted for you excited. He doesn't have to say 1974 and 1975, Davis led Oklahoma to his ferocious pursuit, he jetted from , anything. You can just look at him and back-to-back national championships. sideline to sideline to make the tackle. get excited. He's always for you. He The running ace of Oklahoma's Lucious gained his strength working never gets down on you." 1974 outfit was Joe Washington, left on the Selmon farm near Eufaula Switzer has always led the nation's halfback from Port Arthur, Texas, where the boys plowed with mules. major college coaches in winning per- whose zig-zag running was best de- "We didn't own a tractor," Lucious centage. Today he stands 126-24-4 for scribed by assistant coach Wendell said. When the hogs broke loose, Lu- 83.1 percent. Moseley. cious and his brothers, Dewey and Le- But he had to wait 10 years before "Joe's got those zoo-zoos," Moseley Roy, ran them down, picked them up he directed Oklahoma to another na- said, rolling his eyes piously and snak- bodily and hefted them back into the tional championship. That was last ing his hand through the air in imita- pen. fall, and the Sooners won it with de-

36 Oklahoma TODAY ... tho '89 Texas game ...... the '82 Missouri game ... ..a tho '82 OSU m.. fense. If you look at the quality of the earlier contests against Minnesota and I Sooner schedule-seven opponents Texas. later playing in bowls and an eighth, Stunning moves by talented but un- Southern Methodist, almost sure to tested players like Holieway began de- have been invited had it not been on cades ago with Oklahoma teams that probation-last fall's defense seems in coined the words rmle-dazzle. many ways the best ever developed at The first Oklahoma team to win a Norman because of the challenge con- national championship, Bud Wilkin- fronting it. son's 1950 club, looked in the summer Three stars of the 1985 OU defense as if it would be hard-pressed to finish won national acclaim. Nose guard first division in the Big Six conference. Tony Casillas of Tulsa was voted the Only one offensive starter, fullback Lombardi Award as the nation's best Leon Heath, returned. Six valuable re- lineman. Brian Bosworth carried off serves had answered the call to duty of the Dick Butkus trophy as the nation's the Oklahoma National Guard in Ko- finest linebacker. Casillas, Bosworth rea. The plain truth was that Wilkin- and right end Kevin Murphy were vot- son and his assistants-Frank Ivy, Bill ed All-American. Jennings, George Lynn and the able While defense comprised the team's line mentor, Gomer Jones-were face principal asset, the offense made a to face with the crisis of their coaching neat adjustment to an unfortunate situ- careers. They met it in remarkable ation. When Troy Aikman, the team's fashion by molding a fine team from top quarterback and finest fonvard- sophomores and squad men. passer in years, went down with a bro- Wilkinson always worked personally ken ankle in the second quarter of the with his quarterbacks. He developed a Miami game, which Oklahoma lost 27- good one that year in Claude Arnold, a 14, Switzer did a daring thing. rangy senior from Okmulgee who had He inserted Jamelle Holieway, an spent 31 months with the Army Air 18-year-old freshman from Carson, Force. Arnold, as fine a foward passer ... tho '81 OSU cunw ... California, into the position and as ever spawned at Norman, would set switched to the full wishbone offense. a new all-time national record that sea- Holieway, employing slippery run- son for pass interception avoidance of ning, adroit ball-handling and an abili- 0.9 percent, giving only one intercep- ty to read the enemy defense and tion in 114 throws. choose the right play, quarterbacked The 1950 season began. The Soon- the Sooners to seven straight victories. ers defeated Boston College 28-0 for Then he moved them to the 25-10 their 22nd straight victory and played a combing of Penn State for the national strong Texas Aggie club in what many championship. And Holieway regard as the most thrilling game ever achieved his part in all this without played in Norman. With only 3:16 left ever having seen a Sooner spring prac- to play, the Sooners were beaten 28-27 - -- tice. Nor had he played a down in the and Texas A&M had the football. Billy ... the '81 K.m0.W.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 37 Vessels, sophomore left fielded a forward pass fnnn Am&$ -- tragically missed the convmion Gnaa

Then a wonderful thing happened.

nobady wanted to forget. "I was proud of our crowd then, very pmud," Wilkinson said.

: Behind one point, there was one minute and 46 seconds left to play and

was crazy," Bud said later. Arnold shot five forward passes. Four of them hit and the receiver ran over the sideline to stop the clock. Tommy Gray took the last one to the Cadet four-yard line. Leon Heath ran wide to the left to score the touchdown with 40 sec- onds left to play. Weatherall kicked the goal, and Oklahoma won, 34-28. The Sooners kept going. They beat all opponents before losing to Ken- tucky in the Sugar Bowl, their winning skein fractured at 31 straight. But the national champion then was voted before the bowls were played, and Oklahoma won it over Army with Texas in third place. Bud's Sooner teams of 1955, a ty- phoon of speed, and his remarkable 1956 outfit, which had speed, sawy and spirit in unbelievable quantities, swept consecutive national charnpion-

18 Oklahoma TODAY ... withTom Panndl, '608 ...... at the '50 Texas gam ships. In addition, the 1955 club won remembers: "Dennit Morris was hurt, an Orange Bowl game, stopping Coach and I had to play three quarters. After Jim Tatum's Maryland Terps 20-6 at our third touchdown, I had to kick off. Miami. Oklahoma then was in the Bud had told me, 'If you're tired, tell throes of another string of victories that us and we'll get somebody else in.' I would surpass anything in the history walked to the sideline. 'Coach,' I said, of American football. 'I'm pooped.' Starting with a 19-14 triumph over "Bud grinned. He reached over and Texas at Dallas in 1953, Wilkinson's patted me on the rump. 'Go ahead and clubs began the storied streak. They kick off and go down and get the tack- won the last nine games of 1953, then le,' he said. Damn! That pat on the swept to a 10-0 mark in 1954, an 11-0 rump lifted me sky high. I did kick off Jim Wecl&hal.l, h All-Am&n Wngtdk binge in 1955, a 10-0 surge in 1956and and go down and get the tackle. I who brought t4e d to its f& in '50. the first seven games of 1957 before could have played another full Notre Dame upset them 7-0 at Nor- quarter." man to halt the record at 47 straight And that brings us to the question at victories and to end the Sooner record hand. Where is the best college foot- of having scored in 112 consecutive ball played, year in and year out, in the contests. United States today? At Norman or The 1956 team's only scare was Col- South Bend? orado at Boulder; the Sooners trailed Probably neither. Formidable teams 19-6 at the half. Between halves, Wil- nominated in summer to win the AP kinson told the Sooners to put the first Poll are seldom able to surmount the half out of their minds and start a new psychological handicaps and intense game when play resumed. "Here's one enemy concentration that instantly ac- man who thinks you can still win," he crue. Often the team that finishes at said. the top is one that few suspected capa- "He left the dressing room to let us ble of such a feat in the first place. Halflack Billy VmcIF---in h~114'505,still an think about it," remembers Guard If Switzer's team, which will be > LOkkdoma name 36 ymhtcr. Buddy Oujesky. "Our senior leaders heavily favored, can bring it off despite hmoM then took over. Jerry Tubbs and Ed all this and the class of its opposition- Gray, the co-captains, arose. 'Okay,' UCLA, Minnesota, Texas, Miami of they said. 'Let's go out and get it Florida and the formidable Big done.' Eight-it will draw abreast of Notre ''And when our guys decided they Dame 7-7 in national championships could do it, we went down on the won and for the first time ever capture field," recalls Clendon Thomas. "I a piece of the leadership. don't mean to sound cocky, but we HadKeifA spent 1930 to 1969 as knew we could do anything we wanted OCrs Spom Infonnatn Director, ad, to do. Nobody could beat us. Nobody aithoud off&i/r retid, he keeps an could handle us. Get out of our way." offrce in tAe athktic depamnent. Mr. Kkt4 Oklahoma won, 27-19. k the author of two books about OU OU's Hkman Tropky winnns: Billy Vmk, Of that battle, fullback Billy Pricer footbai/ and swa/ &kin's stories. '52;Billy Sh, '78, and Sttw Owns, '69.

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 39 ABOVE Kym Wilson Tree and red berries, McCurtcrin County

40 Oklahoma TODAY .

PRECEDING PAGE Larry 0.Brown Slim asters and oaks, Wchifa Mountains

' I 42 Oklahoma TODAY 5 OWING PAGE Larry 0.Brown Bull elk Wichita Mountains

BELOW Kym Wilson A fall scene, Mountain Fork River

ABOVE: Larry D. Brown Great Blue Herons, Salt Fork of the Arkansas River

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TIMES 1 +September 12-13. If you want to see a mama on a Brahma, check out the Women's National Finals Rodeo at the

Lazy E Arena in Guthrie. fA September 13-14. Eyeball the offerings of 100 dealers at Guymon Coin Club's 11th Annual Coin, Gun, Antique and Hobby Show. 4September 18-21. Move to the groove of Latin music while you nibble South American delicacies and wander among ethnic crafts booths during Hispanic Heritage Week in Tulsa. September 18-28. Your escapades can include the Ice Capades, a rodeo and an earful of singers Willie Nelson, Conway Twitty and Lacy J. Dalton at the 80th State Fair of Oklahoma in OKC. +October 18-November 14. Works by masters, including Bert Seabourn, Troy Anderson, Enoch Kelly Haney, will be on display at the Master's Competitive Art Show & Sale at Muskogee's Five Civilized Tribes Museum.

OKC, (405) 521-2491 6-0ct. 5 "Eugene Bavinger" and "Heartland Painters," OU MUSEUMS L OALLERIEs Museum of Art, Norman, (405) 325-3272 14-Oct. 26 "American Impressionists," Philbrook, Tulsa, (918) 749-7941 SEPTEMBER 15-0ct. 17 "100 Years of American Photography," OK 1-8 Western Art Show, Cowboy Hall of Fame, OKC, Museum of Art, OKC, (405) 840-2759 (405) 478-2250 21-Nov. 16 "The World of Robert Bateman," Gilcrease, 1-17 "Women of the Sweet Grass, Cedar and Sage," Tulsa, (918) 582-3122 Gardiner Gallery, OSU, Stillwater, (405) 624-6016 23-Nov. 3 American Master Drawings, OK Museum of An, 1-21 "What Is Native American Art!", Kirkpatrick OKC, (405) 840-2759 Center, OKC, (405) 427-5228 OCTOBER 1-30 Contemporary Southern Plains Indian Arts, Indian 17-Dec. 8 "The Prints of Thomas Moran," Gilcrease, Tulsa, Museum, Anadarko, (405) 247-6221 (918) 582-3122 1-Oct. 16 "Spiro Mounds," Tonkawa and OKC, (405) 325- 18-Nov. 16 "People and Power" and "Portraits of 20th 4711 Century Writers," OU Museum of An, Norman, 1-0ct. 29 George Aguirre's Artists and Their Work, (405) 325-3272 Philbrook, Tulsa, (918) 749-7941 19-Nov. 21 "Allard/Newman/Coxundos: Three Ponraitists," I-Jan. 1 "History of OU Football," Stovall Museum, OU, OK Museum of Art, OKC, (405) 840-2759 Norman, (405) 325-4711 26-Nov. 19 "Pepin Collection of Molahs," Gardiner Gallery, I-Jan. 15 "Mail Order in Oklahoma," OK Historical Society, OSU, Stillwater, (405) 624-6016

SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER '86 45 ENTERT CALENDAR

6 Pioneer Day, Skiatook, (918) 396-3702 11-13 Western Days Celebration & Rodeo, Mustang, DRAMA (405) 376-4142 11-13 Festifall, Ken Park, OKC, (405) 236-1426 13 Festival of the Arts. Means Park, Weatherford, SEPTEMBER (405) 772-7744 1-20 "Opal's Million Dollar Duck," Gaslight Dinner 19-21 Fall Festival of Arts, Elk City, (405) 225-0207 Theatre, Tulsa, (918) 252-2567 20 Calf Fry Festival, Fairgrounds, Vinita, (918) 786- 1-21 "Evita," Cabaret Supper Theatre, Ft. Sill, (405) 2289 (Thurs.-Sun.) 351-4519 25-Oct. 5 Tulsa State Fair, Expo Square, Tulsa, (918) 744- 5-6, 12-13 "Oklahoma!", Lincoln Co. On-Stage, Chandler, 1113 (405) 258-2631 26-27 Internat'l Festival, Library Plaza, Lawton, (405) 5-14 "The Foreigner," Theatre Tulsa, Tulsa, (918) 248-8055 744-1 168 11-28 "Mack and Mabel," Jewel Box, OKC, (405) 521- OCTOBER 3-5 Arts & Crafts Festival, Fairgrounds, Drumright, 1786 (918) 352-2204 3-5 Fall Fest, Monkey Island, Afton, (918) 786-2289 18-21 "M~fch Ado About Nothing," Performing Arts Center, Tulsa, (918) 592-7122 4 Arts Festival, Courthouse Square, Chandler, (405) 258-0673 19-20, 25-27 "Octette Bridge Club," Little Theatre, Muskogee, (918) 683-5332 4 Arts & Crafts Expo, Blackwell, (405) 363-4195 4 Czech Festival, Yukon, (405) 354-3567 25-28 "The Home Front," OCU, OKC, (405) 521-5124 25-28 "The Rainmaker," Theater Guild, Community 4 Fall Fest, Fuqua Park, Duncan, (405) 255-0696 Center, Bartlesville, (918) 333-0868 4 Arts & Crafts Festival, Courthouse, Anadarko, 26 "Inherit the Wind," Community Playhouse, (405) 247-3087 Broken Arrow, (918) 258-0077 4-5 Arts & Crafts Festival, SOSU, Durant, (405) 924- 26-Oct. 25 "Play It Again Sam," Gaslight Dinner Theatre, 7500 Tulsa, (918) 252-2567 10-12 Pelican Festival, Community Center, Grove, (918) 786-2289 OCTOBER 2-5 "Six Characters in Search of an Author," Cameron 11 Octoberfest, Marland Estate, Ponca City, (405) U., Lawton, (405) 248-2200, ext. 359 765-2422 3-12 'The Velveteen Rabbit," Theatre Tulsa, Tulsa, 11-12 Arts & Crafts Festival, Liberty School, Sallisaw, (918) 744-1168 (918) 775-2558 3-18 "Little Shop of Horrors," American Theatre Co., 16-19 Oktoberfest, River West Festival Park, Tulsa, Performing Arts Center, Tulsa, (918) 747-9494 (918) 582-005 1 10-12, 17-19 "Our Town," Community Theatre, Edmond, 17-27 City Arts Week, various locations, Norman, (405) (405) 478-4870 321-7260 16-18 Theatre Festival, OSU, Stillwater, (405) 624-6094 25 Sorghum Day, Seminole Nation Museum, 22-26 "The Firebugs," Fine Arts Center, OU, Norman, Wewoka, (405) 257-5580 (405) 325-5321 31-Nov. 2 Will Rogers Days, Claremore, (918) 341-2818 23-Nov. 9 "Fool's Paradise," Jewel Box, OKC, (405) 521- 31-Nov. 2 Arts, Crafts & Antiques Fair, Heavener, (918) 653- 1786 4303 24-25 "The Emperor's New Clothes," OCU, OKC, (405) 521-5124 24-25, 31-Nov. 1 "The Elephant Man," Theater Guild Auxiliary, Community Center, Bartlesville, (918) 333-0868 27-29 "Story Theatre," Seretean Center, OSU, INDIAN EVENTS Stillwater, (405) 624-6094 31-Nov. 1, 7-8 "The Sunshine Boys," Lincoln Co. On-Stage, Chandler, (405) 258-2631 ubrT0BER 31-Nov. 2 "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," Mohawk Park, 11-12 Kiowa Veterans Blackleggins Ceremonial, Indian Tulsa, (918) 592-7855 City Dance Grounds, Anadarko, (405) 247-5661 31-Nov. 9 "Murder by the Book," Theatre Tulsa, Tulsa, (918) 744-1168 31-Nov. 15 "Painting Churches," American Theater Co., Brook Theatre, Tulsa, (918) 747-9494 31-Nov. 22 "Carnival," Gaslight Dinner Theatre, Tulsa, (918) 252-2566

SEPTEMBER 4 "Backstage," Chamber Orchestra OKC, Christ the 9 FAIRS C FESTIVALS King Church, OKC, (405) 525-3532 7 Concert with Baritone Stephen Dickson, Chamber Orchestra OKC, Christ the King Church, (405) SEPTEMBER 525-3532 5-6 Chili Cook-off and Bluegrass Festiva1,Main Mall, 6, 13, 20, 27 "Saturday Evening Live" concert, OK Museum of Tulsa, (918) 583-2617 Art, OKC, (405) 840-2759

46 Oklahoma TODAY 13 Pops Picnic Concert, Bartlesville Symphony Orchestra, Community Center, Bartlesville, (918) 337-2787 14 "Friends of Music Interlude," Bennett Chapel, OSU, Stillwater, (405) 624-6133 16 Chamber Recital, Seretean Center, OSU, SEPTEMBER 1 The Great Labor Day WeekendlKRMG Raft Stillwater, (405) 624-6133 Racc, Sand Springs, (918) 245-2248 18-19 "Maria Benitez Estampa Flamenca," Stage 1 Horseshoe Pitching Contest, Woodward, (405) Center, OKC, (405) 239-7333 256-2280 19, Oct. 24 OK Sinfonia and Chorale Concert, Old Lady on 1-Nov. 30 "Black Holes, Pulsars and Quasars," Kirkpatrick Brady, Tulsa, (918) 582-7507 Center, OKC, (405) 427-5461 21, 23, Classics Series, OK Symphony, Civic Center 5-7 Hydroplane Races, Lake Overholser. OKC. (405) Oct. 12, 14 Music Hall, OKC, (405) 232-4292 278-8900 23 "Mozart on Fifth," Seretean Center, OSU, 5-7 Antique Show & Sale, Expo Square, Tulsa, (918) Stillwater, (405) 743-3697 744-1 113 25, Oct. 16 Tulsa Philharmonic Classics Concert, Performing 13 Run of '93, Cherokee, (405) 596-3053 Arts Center, Tulsa, (918) 584-2533 13 Cherokee Strip Celebration, Perry, (405) 336-4684 6-13 Flea Market, Expo Square, Tulsa, (918) 744-1113 OCTOBER 2 "Tulsa Pops Presents Dave Brubeck," Old Lady 13-14 Ceramic Show, Expo Square, Tulsa, (918) 744- (918) 582-7507 on Brady, Tulsa, 1113 4 Lawton Philharmonic, McMahon Auditorium, 7 "Dahlias," Tulsa Garden Center, Tulsa, (918) Lawton, (405) 248-2001 747-2 192 4-5 "Frankie and Johnny," Tulsa Ballet Theatre, 7 Square Dance Hoedown, West Bank Festival Park, Performing Arts Center, Tulsa, (918) 585-2573 Tulsa, (918) 582-0051 11 Lorin Hollander and the Bartlesville Symphony 11-13 Cherokee Strip Celebration. Enid. (405) 237-2494 Orchestra, Community Center, Bartlesville, (918) 13-14 Antique Car Show & Auction, Expo Square, 337-2787 Tulsa, (918) 744-1 113 18-19 Casa Verde Trio, two locations, Tulsa, (918) 742- 13-14 Arrowhead Cup Sailing Regatta, Yacht Club, 4087 Ketchum, (918) 786-2289 19 "An Evening of Ballet," Sooner Theatre, Norman, 13-14 Kelly's Cup Stage Bicycle Race, Norman, (405) (405) 321-7260 321-7260 24-25 Ballet Oklahoma, Civic Center Music Hall, OKC, 21-Dec. 21 "Autumn Nights," Kirkpatrick Center, OKC, (405) 843-9898 (405) 427-5461 30 OSU Jazz Ensemble, Seretean Center, OSU, 26-27 Chili Cook-off, Texoma State Park, Kingston, (405) 624-6133 Stillwater, (405) 52 1-2406 31 Guitarist Doc Watson, Tulsa Performing Arts 27 Grand Prix, Lake Murray State Park, Ardmore, Center, (918) 592-7122 (405) 223-7765 27 Art Show, Cordell, (405) 832-3538 RODEOS & 27 Horseshoe Pitching Contest, Community Center, HORSE EVENTS Yukon, (405) 256-2280 27-28 Gun Show, Expo Center, Shawnee, (405) 275-7020 29-Oct. 3 Petroleum Expo, Convention Center, Tulsa, (918) SEPTEMBER 583-5522 1-Nov. 30 (selected days) Pari-Mutuel Horse Racing, Blue OCTOBER 1-31 "Wonderful World of Ferns," Kirkpatrick Center, Ribbon Downs, Sallisaw, (918) 775-7771, ext. 19 OKC, (405) 427-5461 7 Horse Show, Fairgrounds, Norman, (405) 321-7260 4-5 African Violet Show and Sale, Tulsa Garden 7, 14 Polo, Broad Acres Polo Grounds, Norman, (405) Center, Tulsa, (918) 749-6401 321-7260 5 Heritage Hills House Tour. OKC. (405) 525-5394 19-21 Pinto Horse Show, Expo Center, Shawnee, (405) 5 "Perennials," Tulsa Garden Center, Tulsa, (918) 275-7020 749-6401 24-28 Nat'l Dressage Championships, Lazy E Arena, 11-12 Dahlia Show, Tulsa Garden Center, (918) 749- Guthrie, (405) 282-3004 6401 25-28 Rodeo, Fairgrounds, OKC, (405) 942-551 1 18-19 Buckle Show, Fairgrounds, OKC, (405) 421-1044 OCTOBER 6-12 Morgan Horse Show, Fairgrounds, OKC, (405) 18-19 Gun & Knife Show, Expo Square, Tulsa, (918) 278-8900 744-1113 13-18 Fall Barrel Futurity, Lazy E Arena, Guthrie, (405) 25 Tulsa Run, Williams Center Green, Tulsa, (918) 282-3004 582-0051 17-19 Hunter-Jumper Show, Expo Square, Tulsa, (918) 25-26 Rock & Mineral Show, Fairgrounds, Tulsa, (918) 744-1 113 234-3618 19-22 Paint Horse Show, Fairgrounds, OKC, (817) 439- 26-31 "Haunt the Zoo." OKC Zoo. OKC, (405) 424-3344 3400 31 Halloween Party & Carnival, Cushing, (918) 225- 28-Nov. 1 Cutting Show, Lazy E Arena, Guthrie, (405) 282- 2400 3004 Although the information in this calendar is current, dates and details 31-Nov. 10 Appaloosa Horse Show, Fairgrounds, OKC, (405) can change without notice. Please check in advance before attending 278-8900 any event.

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