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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]
William Hale was born in Hunt County, Texas, on December 24, 1874. [1] [a] His mother died when he was three years old.At age sixteen he began working as a cowboy in West Texas, and by 18 was running cattle on the Kiowa-Comanche reservation in Indian Territory.
An Osage Nation chief is a leader of the Osage Nation.Historically, chiefs were hereditary and the tribe was made up of various sub-chiefs under a primary chief. Today, the Osage Nation has two chiefs: the Principal Chief of the Osage Nation and the assistant chief.
Horace Greeley Burt (Jan 1849 – May 19, 1913) was President of Union Pacific Railroad from 1898 until 1904. He was born in Terre Haute, Indiana. He began his Railway service in 1868 with Chicago and North Western Railway as a resident engineer from 1873 until 1881. He was Division superintendent from 1881 until 1887, Chief engineer from ...
Vaughan boarded a train that night to return to Pawhuska. [32] In the morning he was missing when the Pullman porter went to wake him. His berth on the train had not been used. Vaughan's body was later found with his skull crushed, beside the railroad tracks near Pershing, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Pawhuska.
Location of Osage County in Oklahoma. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Osage County, Oklahoma. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Oklahoma Man Kayaks Down Flood-Hit Pawhuska Street May 23, 2019 at 3:42 AM Hunter Taylor, a native of Pawhuska, Oklahoma, unexpectedly got to use his newly-purchased kayak during severe flooding ...
The Million Dollar Elm (unknown - 1980s; 2014 - 2024) was the name given to multiple trees in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, known for marking the site of auctions for oil leases to drill in the Osage Nation. The original tree died in the 1980s due to Dutch elm disease and a replacement tree planted in 2014 was felled in April 2024.