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Elmer J. McCurdy (January 1, 1880 – October 7, 1911) was an American outlaw who was killed in a shoot-out with police after robbing a train in Oklahoma in October 1911. . Dubbed "The Bandit Who Wouldn't Give Up", his mummified body was first put on display at an Oklahoma funeral home and then became a fixture on the traveling carnival and sideshow circuit during the 1920s through the 1
They also owned a funeral home that performed funerals for the deceased that would be paid for by the estate. Some families sold their allotments to the Drummonds to cover the costs of their debt to the Hominy Trading Company. [5] [6] In 1910, Fred G. Drummond was appointed Henry Roan's guardian and he purchased parts of Roan's land. [7]
May 7, 1979 (210 W. Main St. Pawhuska: 6: Chapman-Barnard Ranch Headquarters: Chapman-Barnard Ranch Headquarters: March 2, 2001 (1511 County Route 4201: Pawhuska
The highway will exit Pawhuska to the west near Elk Lodge Drive. SH-11 is a predominately east–west state highway that enters Pawhuska on the east side of town at the junction of US-60/OK-99 and runs along Main Street. Like US-60, the highway will exit Pawhuska to the west near Elk Lodge Drive. SH-99 is a north–south state highway.
In 1903, the Drummonds moved to Hominy, Oklahoma where Frederick founded the Hominy Trading Company after buying out the Price Mercantile Company. [1] [4] The Victorian-style Fred and Adeline Drummond House was built in 1905 in Hominy, Oklahoma by Frederick and Addie; [5] the same year he became the first vice-president of Hominy's first national bank. [6]
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 Mercantile in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. On September 21, 1996, Drummond married Ladd Drummond (born January 22, 1969), a fourth-generation member of the prominent Osage County cattle ranching Drummond family whom she refers to as "the Marlboro Man " in her books and her blog.
Ernest George Burkhart was born on September 11, 1892, to a poor cotton farmer in Greenville, Texas. He was a nephew of William King Hale.In 1912, aged nineteen, Burkhart moved into his uncle's ranch at Fairfax, Osage County, in search of fortune after the discovery of oil in the region. [1]