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January 5th 2016

Published: June 25th 2017

Geo: 35.472, -97.5203A few more Route 66 stops led us right to Oklahoma City. In addition to not exiting the vehicle DH has taken to gunning the engine if she thinks we are spending a little too much time at yet another 50's style gas station. She claims that she doesn't want to be caught flat-footed in the event of one of those pop-up tornadoes that Oklahoma is famous for (Oklahoma averag... Read Full Entry

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The Survivor Tree

Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial

Message Left By First Responders

Books McVeigh Used To Build Bomb

Photo Wall Of The Victims

This room was particularly eerie as they played the tape recording of a meeting that was taking place and the explosion can be heard.

Clock Found In The Debris Stopped At 9:02

All That Remained Of The Rental Truck

McVeigh, a U.S. militia movement sympathizer who was a Gulf War veteran, had detonated a Ryder rental truck full of explosives parked in front of the building.

Timothy McVeigh Getaway Car

Within 90 minutes of the explosion, McVeigh was stopped by Oklahoma State Trooper Charlie Hanger for driving without a license plate and arrested for illegal weapons possession.

Oklahoma City Bombing Memorial

McVeigh timed his attack to coincide with the second anniversary of the deadly fire that ended the siege at Waco, Texas

Bombers Were Found Guilty

The bombers were tried and convicted in 1997. McVeigh was executed by lethal injection on June 11, 2001, and Nichols was sentenced to life in prison in 2004.

Oklahoma City Stockyards

Stockyards City's namesake first opened in 1910 and is the world's largest stocker-feeder cattle market.

Oklahoma City Stockyards

Oklahoma Land Rush

The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land rush into the Unassigned Lands. The area that was opened to settlement included most of Oklahoma.

Oklahoma Land Rush

The land run started at high noon on April 22, 1889, with an estimated 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres.

Oklahoma Land Rush

A number of the people who participated in the run entered the unoccupied land early and hid there until the legal time of entry to lay quick claim to some of the most choice homesteads. These people came to be identified as "Sooners."

Oklahoma Land Rush

Oil Wells Dot The Landscape

There are about 193,000 active wells in Oklahoma.

Museum of Osteology (Bone Museum)

The Museum of Osteology is a private museum devoted to the study of bones and skeletons (osteology).

18th January 2016

macsim2@sympatico.ca
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Great blog and photos as usual... FYI... Indy's put his papers in.

18th January 2016

Amanda
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no wonder they went extinct

18th January 2016

Lorena from Rogers
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wow big sculpture

20th January 2016

mss-2014
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....hence "the mini bike"

20th January 2016

mss-2014
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It actually looks like a bird bath....

20th January 2016

mss-2014
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I just can't picture a 'silent' western movie. That would be quite boring, I would think?!

20th January 2016

mss-2014
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They would be very sexy, if that's ALL you wore.....

20th January 2016

mss-2014
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Are these places haunted at all? Could you feel a spirited cowboy presence ?

20th January 2016

mss-2014
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Were there any spirits felt in that place?? They have all these haunted buildings and structures everywhere, you'd think there would be a few disturbed souls in that place ....

20th January 2016

mss-2014
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Obviously 'the specimen' NEVER saw a dentist during his short life....just sayin'...

20th January 2016

mss-2014
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Baaaahahahaha! I'm sure she was crushed!

20th January 2016

mss-2014
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Vic, is that you and DH's new mode of transportation AND wardrobe !?!?

27th January 2016

Becky Borgman
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They are not extinct. They may have eliminated herds across the West back then, but they are definitely not extinct. Many ranches exist today in the American West that contain large herds of buffalo. Ted Turner, at his ranch in Montana,
is just one of them. In Yellowstone National Park, the herds of buffalo free range.

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