Date Visited: July 6, 2021
\nOklahoma City is the Capital of the State of Oklahoma, but most people just call it Oklahoma and then you kind of guess with the context if the person is talking about the city or the state. If the locals are writing about Oklahoma City they just write OKC.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma City was founded in 1889 as part of what was called “The Land Run.” The federal government had recently cleared this land from Native Americans and they had this race and the person with the fastest horse to these land marking flags got the land. Due to all this land the then territory grew quickly and by 1907 Oklahoma was ready to become a state. <\/p>\n
Centrally located Oklahoma turned out to be a great gathering point for all the cattle in the region and eventually the Oklahoma Stockyards became the largest stockyards in the United States. In the 20s Oklahoma became a major rest stop on the famous Route 66 to California. Everything was growing great until World Ward II came along and then things started to deflate. <\/p>\n\n\t\t