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In 1925, the Midland Valley acquired the Kansas, Oklahoma and Gulf Railway, and the Muskogee Company purchased a third railroad Oklahoma City-Ada-Atoka Railway in 1929. [3] The most serious accident on the Midland Valley system occurred February 1, 1958. Westbound train 41 collided head-on with eastbound train 42 on the curve at Bokoshe ...
Smitherman began his journalism career in 1908 in Muskogee, Oklahoma where he wrote for the Muskogee Cimiter before founding the Muskogee Star in 1912. He later founded the Tulsa Star after moving to Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1913. [1] Smitherman was a community leader of the Greenwood District in Tulsa, Oklahoma until the Tulsa Race Massacre.
This is a list of online newspaper archives and some magazines and journals, including both free and pay wall blocked digital archives. Most are scanned from microfilm into pdf, gif or similar graphic formats and many of the graphic archives have been indexed into searchable text databases utilizing optical character recognition (OCR) technology.
Many of these early Oklahoma newspapers were published in the many all-Black towns established after the Land Run of 1889. Langston City in particular was home to eleven newspapers from 1891 to 1913. [2] Notable African American newspapers in Oklahoma today include The Black Chronicle of Oklahoma City and The Oklahoma Eagle of Tulsa.
A person who lives in or comes from Muskogee, Oklahoma, USA is called an Okie from Muskogee (although many consider the term disparaging). This is a list of well-known people who were born or lived in the city of Muskogee.
Joseph B. Thoburn and John W. Sharp. History of the Oklahoma Press and the Oklahoma Press Association (Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Press Association, 1930). Federal Writers' Project (1941), "Newspapers", Oklahoma: a Guide to the Sooner State, American Guide Series, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 74– 82, ISBN 9781603540353 – via ...
The people listed below were born in, residents of, or otherwise closely associated with the city of Muskogee, Oklahoma, including Muskogee County and surrounding towns. Subcategories This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total.
Muskogee (/ m ə ˈ s k oʊ ɡ iː / [3]) is the 13th-largest city in Oklahoma and is the county seat of Muskogee County. [4] Home to Bacone College, it lies approximately 48 miles (77 km) southeast of Tulsa. The population of the city was 36,878 as of the 2020 census, a 6.0% decrease from 39,223 in 2010. [5]