“Okemah was one of the singiest, square dancingest, drinkingest, yellingest, preachingest, walkingest, talkingest, laughingest, cryingest, shootingest, fist fightingest, bleedingest, gamblingest, gun, club and razor carryingest of our ranch towns and farm towns, because it blossomed out into one of our first Oil Boom Towns.”

— Woody Guthrie

Pastures Of Plenty: A Self Portrait (1990), p. 3

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American singer-songwriter and folk musician 1912–1967

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