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Oklahoma Tourism and Travel Info. and Discount Oklahoma Hotels Guide. Includes Oklahoma City Hotels, Bartlesville, Claremore, Guthrie, Muskogee, Tahlequah, Tulsa Hotels and More.

Often ridiculed by the rest of America as dust filled and boring, the State of OKLAHOMA has had a traumatic and far from dull history. In the 1830s all this land, held to be useless, was set aside as Indian Territory: a convenient dumping ground for the so called Five Civilized Tribes who blocked white settlement in the southern states. The Choctaw and Chickasaw of Mississippi, the Seminole of Florida, and the Creek of Alabama were each assigned a share, while the rest though already inhabited by indigenous Indians was given to the Cherokee from Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia, who followed in 1838 on the four month trek notorious as the Trail of Tears. Today the state has a large Native American population, Oklahoma is the Choctaw word for red man, and even the smallest towns tend to have museums of Native American Indian history.

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Once white settlers realized that Indian Territory was well worth farming, they soon decided to stay. The native Americans were relocated once more, and in a series of manic free for all scrambles starting in 1889, entire towns sprang up literally overnight. Those who jumped the gun and claimed land illegally were known as Sooners: hence Oklahoma's nickname, the Sooner State . White settlers didn't have an easy life, however, facing, after great oil prosperity in the 1920's, an era of unthinkable hardship in the 1930s. The desperate migration, when whole communities fled the dust bowl for California, has come to encapsulate the worst nightmares of the Depression, most famously in John Steinbecks novel and John Fords film The Grapes of Wrath, but also in Dorothea Lange's evocative photos of nomadic families, hitching and camping on the roads, and in the sad yet optimistic songs of Woody Guthrie. After the slump of the early 30's, improved farming techniques brought life, and people, back to the State of Oklahoma. Today the State is known for its staunch conservatism: as the Bible Belt stronghold, bars and liquor stores close early.

Oklahoma State is not the flat and unchanging expanse of popular imagination. Most of its places of interest, such as attractive Tulsa, lie in the hilly wooded northeast; only the sparse and treeless west is devoid of appeal, on the far side of the central tornado alley prairie grassland which holds the states revitalized capital, Oklahoma City. The lakes and parks of the south, which bears more than a passing resemblance to neighboring Arkansas complete with mountains, foliage and bluegrass music, have made tourism Oklahoma's second largest industry after oil.

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