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Oklahoma Historic Place of the Day

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Custer's Rendezvous

In This VicinityOn 2 Mar. 1896 with 2 regts. of cavalry Gen. G. A. Custer departed Medicine Creek Camp (Now Ft. Sill) on expedition against plains indians here on 5 March he met large suppy train dispatched for his use from Camp Supply by Gen P. H Sheridan. Oklahoma Historical Society 1959

Located in Kiowa County, Oklahoma.

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Today in Oklahoma History

Thursday, February 10, 2005

Sun Dogs and Halos over Norman

A combination of a late afternoon sun and a thin layer of high-level clouds produced some rare and spectacular optical displays in the late afternoon skies over Oklahoma. The displays, consisting of bright spots, arcs, and halos with rainbow-like colors, sent quite a few meteorologists scrambling for their text books on atmospheric optics, simply because some of the phenomena that were seen are so rare that even scientists in the area had never seen them before. more...

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The Cherokee Advocate

The Cherokee Advocate was a newspaper for the Cherokee Nation at Tahlequah, Indian Territory, from 1844 to 1906.

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Beckham County

About Oklahoma. Beckham County is in western Oklahoma along the Texas border.

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