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The 1st Infantry Regiment, Oklahoma Volunteer Militia was first formed on 2 May 1890 and organized as the Oklahoma National Guard on 21 December 1895. Three years later with impending hostilities between the United States and Spain, the Oklahoma and Indian Territories Guard and those of the Territories of Arizona and New Mexico would be consolidated to form the 1st Regiment Territorial ...
Today it is the headquarters for the World War II Airborne Demonstration Team Foundation which maintains two flyable C-47 Skytrain transports. [36] U.S. Coast Guard LORAN-C Station Boise City (1990–2010) In Cimarron County. Enabled aircraft to determine their position and speed using radio signals. Named for nearby city of Boise City.
James Jackson McAlester (October 1, 1842 – September 21, 1920) was an American coal baron and politician active in Indian Territory and later Oklahoma. He served as a United States Marshal for Indian Territory from 1893 to 1897, one of three members of the first Oklahoma Corporation Commission from 1907 to 1911, and as the second lieutenant governor of Oklahoma from 1911 to 1915.
Pittsburg County is a county located in the U.S. state of Oklahoma.As of the 2020 census, the population was 43,773. [1] Its county seat is McAlester. [2] The county was formed from part of the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory in 1907.
McAlester was on the route of the Jefferson Highway established in 1915, with that road running more than 2,300 miles from Winnipeg, Manitoba to New Orleans, Louisiana. [13] McAlester was the site of the 2004 trial of Terry Nichols on Oklahoma state charges related to the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
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The Modoc Nation is headquartered in Miami, Oklahoma, and based largely in Ottawa County.Of the 250 enrolled tribal members, 120 live within the state of Oklahoma. The Tribe's chief is Bill Follis, who was instrumental in securing renewed federal recognition in 1978.
The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (Choctaw: Chahta Okla) is a Native American reservation [5] occupying portions of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. [6] At roughly 6,952,960 acres (28,138 km 2; 10,864 sq mi), it is the second-largest reservation in area after the Navajo, exceeding that of the seven smallest U.S. states.