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Early-Day Railroad Building Operations in Western Oklahoma
Article chronicles how Edward Lockwood Peckham created one of the first railroads in the Oklahoma and Indian Territories within the city of Blackwell.
Date:
Summer 1943
Creator:
Chambers, Homer S.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Forty Feet Under: Kaw City and the Kaw Project on the Arkansas River, 1957-1976
Article describing the process of the construction of the Kaw Dam and Reservoir. From the mid-1950s the inhabitants of Kaw City, founded in 1902 in Kay County, anticipated the construction of Kaw Dam and Reservoir on the Arkansas River. As the bureaucratic process dragged on for decades, the project divided the community. Ultimately, the residents rebuilt on a new site, and by 1977 "Old" Kaw City lay forty feet under Kaw Lake.
Date:
Winter 2006
Creator:
Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History