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Oswego is located on the site of an Osage village called No tse Wa spe, which means "Heart Stays" or more loosely translated, "Quiet Heart." [4] Jesuit Missionaries from Osage Mission (now St. Paul, Kansas) who worked among the Osages called the village "Little Town," probably because the band of Osages who lived in the village were of the "Little Osage" division of the Osage People.
Osage County is the setting of Oklahoma native Tracy Letts's play August: Osage County (2007), which won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama and a Tony Award in 2008, and the 2013 movie adaptation of the same name which stars Meryl Streep. Filming took place in rural Osage County, including Pawhuska, Barnsdall and Bartlesville.
The U.S. state of Oklahoma has 77 counties. It is ranked 20th in size and 17th in the number of counties, between Mississippi with 82 counties and Arkansas with 75 counties. [1] Oklahoma originally had seven counties (Logan, Cleveland, Oklahoma, Canadian, Kingfisher, Payne, and Beaver) when it was first organized as the Oklahoma Territory ...
David Holt (politician) (b. 1979), Mayor of Oklahoma City; [92] served in the Oklahoma State Senate; he was the first Osage elected to state office since 2006. [93] Shonke Mon-thi^, a diplomat to the United States government in the early 20th century. Kihegashugah or Little Chief, an Osage leader who traveled to France in the 1820s.
Labette County is a county located in Southeast Kansas.Its county seat is Oswego, [2] and its most populous city is Parsons.As of the 2020 census, the county population was 20,184. [1]
The title designates time and location: an unusually hot August in a rural area outside Pawhuska, Oklahoma, 60 miles Northwest of Tulsa.Beverly Weston, an alcoholic, once-noted poet, interviews and hires a young Cheyenne woman, Johnna, as a live-in cook and caregiver for his strong-willed and contentious wife Violet, who has oral cancer and an addiction to narcotics.
Enjoy a classic game of Hearts and watch out for the Queen of Spades!
It was also dammed to provide water for the city of Parsons, and is also dammed at the former Kansas Gas & Electric Power Plant at Strauss, as well as at Oswego and Chetopa. [6] In Oklahoma, Pensacola Dam at Langley forms the Neosho's largest reservoir, the Grand Lake o' the Cherokees.