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Erick is located just south of I-40 and is on the historic US Route 66 (which is signed as a business route from Interstate 40). The town is also served by State Highway 30. Erick is the second-closest Oklahoma settlement to the Texas border on US 66 or I-40 (Texola is at the border, seven miles to the west).
Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
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In Oklahoma, the portions west of Oklahoma City that had not been rerouted onto I-40 became business loops of I-44 through Sayre, Elk City, Clinton, and El Reno. The still-independent route, starting at US-81 in southeastern El Reno, became SH-66 , using surface streets except through Oklahoma City and Tulsa , where Route 66 had been rerouted ...
Southbound in Erick, Oklahoma. State Highway 30 (abbreviated SH-30) is a state highway in Oklahoma. It runs 84.4 miles (135.8 km) south-to-north along the western edge of the state, from U.S. Highway 62 (US-62) in Hollis to the town of Durham, two miles (3 km) north of SH-33. It passes through Harmon, Beckham and Roger Mills counties. SH-30 ...
Map showing Kosoma, Indian Territory, c. 1898--the height of its success. A permanent settlement has existed at the site of modern Kosoma since at least the 1880s. During the 1880s, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway , more popularly known as the “Frisco”, built a line from north to south through the Choctaw Nation , connecting Fort Smith ...
Slick began as an oil boom town in 1920, and was named for oilman Thomas B. Slick, who drilled a discovery well nearby. A railroad, the Oklahoma-Southwestern Railway, was completed into town the same year. [5] By 1922, the town had an estimated population of 2500-3500. [5]
Still, the town was exciting enough in 1932 to have its bank robbed by Pretty Boy Floyd. [1] Shamrock at one point had two weekly newspapers. [9] One was The Shamrock Brogue. [12] The editorial in the first issue dated January 1, 1916, summarized the paper's view and intent: “Shamrock is on the map to stay and the Brogue is here to boost for ...