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d come forth. The agents worked under the legal umbrella of the Osage tribal police, but as told in the James Stewart movie “The FBI Story,” they desperately wanted to find a way to make the Osage killings a federal case. Then an agent discovered Roan’s body had been found on federally owned grazing land […]

Wewoka was the location for a series of secret conferences within the Seminole Nation during the summer of 1846. The attendees did not dare let their hosts, the Creeks, learn of what they were discussing, fearing the wrath of the larger tribe. Before them stood the tall, athletic Coacoochee, spending hours trying to convince an […]

Former Oklahoma Gov. William H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray once led an army of Oklahoma families into Bolivia in the Twenties in order to set up a series of colonies. In 1922, he obtained a land grant of 42,000 acres for $1,800 on condition he settle 25 families there by the end of 1925. The colonial […]

Former Oklahoma Gov. William H. “Alfalfa Bill” Murray once led an army of Oklahoma families into Bolivia in the Twenties in order to set up a series of colonies. In 1922, he obtained a land grant of 42,000 acres for $1,800 on condition he settle 25 families there by the end of 1925. The colonial […]