re: When I think of Oklahoma

There's no denying it. As a second generation okie, well 1st generation if you take into account my father was born there before statehood, everyone of us who fit that description are descended from Indians, outlaws or both.

While my grandfather was neither an Indian or an outlaw, he did move there from North Texas as a young man in the 1880's when it was still referred to as Indian Territory and took up ranching.

In at least one respect the joke is on the ones who sent all those Indians to live in what they considered worthless land. Some hundred years after the fact much of that worthless land turned out to be sitting on some of the largest reserves of oil in the Continental United States. After over a hundred years of continuous production, me and my siblings still receive a hefty amount of money every month from the royalties we own on land that was my grandfather's ranch. There is one producing well completed in 1930 that bears my family name. I don't think many of you Show Me's can make that claim.