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C.P. "Doc" Wickmiller: Boomer with a "Hatful of Pills" (open access)

C.P. "Doc" Wickmiller: Boomer with a "Hatful of Pills"

Article illustrates the life and career of W. C. "Doc" Wickmiller, a druggist who joined David L. Payne's "boomer" party and settled in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Genevieve Moss describes the growth of his drugstore from a tent to the first two-story building in town and a mini-museum that showcased all the artifacts he had collected on the frontier.
Date: Summer 1985
Creator: Moss, Genevieve
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History