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EHT O F F CI AI L L M A A NI GAZINEOFTHEOKLAHO MA CENTEN CENTENNIAL COLLECTORS SERIES: SEVEN OF EIGHT “As long as you can be true to yourself, and save your own soul, that’s what really matters.”—N. Scott Momaday Oklahoma, A Portrait of America A PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTFOLIO PAGE 89 46 Plus, Reasons Why We Love Oklahoma PAGE 78 Your Centennial Parade Guide PAGE 35 SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2007 OklahomaToday.com $4.95 TULSA’S 09 > BROOKSIDE: ALL-DAY AND ALL-NIGHT PAGE 130 7 252 74 66717 8 Experience Native History R E V I S I T T H E 1 9 T H C E N T U R Y C U LT U R E O F T H E C H O C TAW A N D C H I C K A S AW N AT I O N S F 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Fisher Avenue, One mile NE of Ft. Towson on State Hwy. 199 Millerton, OK 580.924.6502 580.746.2139 Tishomingo, OK on State Hwy. 70 580.371.3351 580.873.2634 The fort was established First a mission school The museum is home From this remote outpost, to help protect Choctaws for girls in the late to one of the largest the fort’s garrison & Chickasaws from the 1800s, the academy collections of Chickasaw monitored Mexico’s activites Plains Indians, but it also now serves as a historical art, artifacts, and archival just across the river and housed U.S. troups bound museum for the Choctaw material. protected the Choctaw from for the Mexican War. Nation. Plains Indians to the west. 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Photograph by Scott Raffe. ROSEBRAUGH SCOTT RAFFE RI KE 54 78 Page Page Alfalfa Bill We Love Oklahoma 23 47 71 Hit the Road Okies Culture The Oklahoma Centennial Parade Oklahoman editor Ed Kelley on his Oklahoma: A Portrait of America pays makes history in downtown Oklahoma favorite childhood pastime in Perry. tribute to Oklahoma Americana. Plus, City, the Vinita Calf Fry Festival cuts Oklahoma Today unveils Oklahoma’s Oklahoma teams are under pressure for the bull, and the International Festival 46 Greatest Thinkers. Plus, all you ever their mascot names, and the lay of the in Lawton celebrates diversity. wanted to know about Reba McEntire land during the statehood years N N In Every Issue W W O O R R B B SHANE SHANE 6 Contributors CIFFOEHT 9 AI 1 0 EWLedhtittooe rras’rst Ltehtotue,r greateMLAsGAtZI NEthOFinTHkEeOrKsL?AHOMACENTENNILA 116 Page Donnie Record and Hilleary Burgess Rocks 18 rock! 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