One of America s richest men also had a secret identity as a year-around Santa who bought gifts and shoes for Ponca City children, but few knew until he died.
Many Oklahoma bankers, especially in smaller communities, lived in fear of seeing a handsome man with a machine gun nestled walking into their businesses in the early 1930s.
Rodgers and Hammerstein s lyrics are the official state song thanks to a performance on the House floor by a Tulsa actor and a Chickasha choir staged by a future governor.