Oklahoma History by HobbsN

This is the state bird of Oklahoma, and despite what John Oliver tells us it's a really good one. It also just might be the longest-named state bird in the US.

The dispute with Texas over which branch of the river counted as the state boundary went all the way to the Supreme Court, but in the end Oklahoma won and Greer County, Texas became three counties in Oklahoma. Name the river.

The 1921 race riot in Tulsa took place in which black neighborhood? Either the actual name or the common nickname will be accepted.

On State Highway 3 in Cimarron County, you cross a major trail used in the 19th century westward expansion (well, the Cimarron Cutoff to the major trail). Name it.

This Apache war chief was imprisoned at Ft. Sill until his death in 1909.

His postwar football teams at OU were so successful that the university president once pleaded for additional funds for the stated reason that he "would like to build a university of which the football team would be proud."

This Sac and Fox athlete and Oklahoma favorite son won Olympic gold in Pentathlon and Decathlon and played professional baseball, basketball and football. King Gustav of Sweden once told him "you, sir, are the greatest athlete in the world", to which he replied, "Thanks, King".

The original state capital, the official seal was removed from this city in the dead of night to the new capital in Oklahoma City to prevent unrest.

A conquistador is supposed to be the first European to visit what is now Oklahoma, entering from the west, although it's possible that an earlier one may have barely made it in from the east. So name either.

The major land holdings of the biggest Native American tribes were liquidated by this legislation passed in 1887, which assigned 160 acre plots for each enrolled tribe member and then made the rest available to settlers.

The recent court ruling that ordered the removal of the Ten Commandments from the Capitol grounds probably also dealt a fatal blow to a planned monument to which goat-headed demon?

This legendary woman outlaw died in 1889 near Eufala, Oklahoma, the victim of an unsolved murder.