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| Oklahoma Facts |
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Sequoyah's Cabin in Akins, Oklahoma is a frontier house of logs, occupied (1829-44) by Sequoyah (George Gist), the teacher who in 1821 invented a syllabary that made it possible to read and write the Cherokee language. |
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Belle Starr one of the most famous women outlaws is buried in an isolated grave southwest of Porum, Oklahoma near the Eufuala Dam. |
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In 1998, a life size statue of a cattle drive, titled "On the Chisholm Trail," was set in place in Duncan, Oklahoma as a monument to the American Cowboy. |
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