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These are facts about Oklahoma. It started with the first 45 when my mother-in-law gave me a sheet her group was doing... and I just couldn't get enough.......
State Motto = "Labor Omnia Vincit" - Labor conquers all things
State Song = Oklahoma
State Tree = Cercis Canadensis - Redbud
State Bird = Scissor-Tailed Flycatcher
State Flower = Mistletoe
State Grass = Sorghastrum nutans - Indiangrass
State Reptile = Crotaphytus collaris - Collared Lizard AKA "Mountain Boomer"
State Rock = barite rose - Rose Rock
State Fish = morone chrysops - White or Sand Bass
State Animal = Bison AKA Buffalo
State Nickname = The Sooner State
State Native Flower = gaillardia pulchella - Indian Blanket
Oklahoma became a state: November 16, 1907
Oklahoma was the 46th state admitted to the Union.
There are 77 counties in Oklahoma
"Oklahoma" came from the Choctaw language.
State name Oklahoma literally means "Red Man."
67 Indian tribes originally inhabited Indian Territory (39 now have tribal headquarters here).
5 civilized tribes settled in Oklahoma: Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek & Seminole
Highest point in Oklahoma is the Black Mesa at 4,973 feet.
Lowest point in Oklahoma is the Little River at 289 feet.
Tulsa is the city that is sometimes called "Oil Capital of the World."
The first capitol of Oklahoma was Guthrie.
The longest bridge in Oklahoma WAS Bixby's Wagon Bridge (1911)
The two largest rivers in Oklahoma are the Arkansas & Red River.
Will Rogers Memorial is in Claremore, Oklahoma.
The Pioneer Woman is in the Pioneer Woman Museum in Ponca City, Oklahoma.
Sequoyah devised the Cherokee Indian's alphabet - leading the Five Civilized Tribes in education.
George Gist = Sequoyah (Syllabary genius).
"Freestyle" was the sport that Oklahoma contestants won 3 gold medals in the Olympics at Rome.
What two Indians became Brigadier Generals? (I don't know this answer...)
Jim Thorpe - Oklahoma Indian - was rated the best athlete of the half century.
One of the largest known buffalo (bison) herds in the world was located in Pawnee
Who became a world famous ballet performer who was an Oklahoma Indian? (I don't know this answer...)
Boiling Springs State Park and Artesian Beach is in Woodward, Oklahoma.
The Chisholm Trail Historical Museum is in Waurika, Oklahoma.
The Cowboy Hall of Fame is in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Anadarko, Oklahoma is the location of the Indian City, which has authentic recreations of several plains Indian Villages.
The Great Salt Plains is in NW Oklahoma in Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge.
Aline, Oklahoma is home to the Homesteaders Original Sod House, which is the only standing structure of its kind.
The only Confederate cemetery in this state is in Atoka, Oklahoma.
The former headquarters for General Custer in his battle with the Plains Indians was (Fort Supply or Fort Arbuckle).
Little Niagara waterfall cascades 77 feet to form a natural swimming pool, and is located in Sulphur, Oklahoma
Magnolia Mansion, which exhibits some of the furnishings from the 1910 colonial period is in Idabel, Oklahoma.
Poteau, Oklahoma is home to the "Heavener Runestone," that is supposed to prove that Vikings visited the area some 500 years before Columbus.
State Furbearer = Racoon
State Insect = Apis mellifera - Honeybee
State Game Bird = Wild turkey
State Butterfly = Black swallowtail
State Colors = Green & White
State Percussive Musical Instrument = Drum
State Game Animal = White-tail deer
State Musical Instrument = fiddle
State Country & Western Song = Faded Love
State Beverage = Milk
State soil = Port Silt (one of the very few states to have a state soil)
State theatre = Lynn Riggs Players of Oklahoma, Inc.
State Folk Dance = Square dance
State Waltz = Oklahoma Wind

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