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"Fin & Feather Restaurant" is located at Tenkiller Lake.
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Tulsa singer Gary Busey made a career portraying Buddy Holly.
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Annie Oakley was called "Little Sure Shot" in Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show.
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Will Rogers called Vinita his "college town."
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The town of Sand Springs was established as a home for widows and orphans.
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Sequoyah State Park is located on Fort Gibson Lake.
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Years ago Tulsa was known as "Tulsey Town."
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Oklahoman Jerrie Cobb was the first female to pass astronaut training tests.
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World famous oil tycoon John Paul Getty got his start in Tulsa.
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The "Trail of Tears" drama in Tahlequah is one of North America's "Top 100" events.
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The "Czech Festival" is held on the streets of Yukon each October.
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Former Tulsan Donna Reed had her own hit TV series and also appeared on the hit TV show "Dallas."
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Ron Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma.
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In the 1940's, Tulsa's Cain's Ballroom became famous for western swing.
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Bartlesville's Phillips Petroleum Company has its own museum on the history of the oil industry.
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OU's Barry Switzer and OSU's Pat Jones were both born in Arkansas and graduated from the University of Arkansas.
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The town of Bristow was earlier called the "Woodland Queen."
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Leonard McMurry's huge sculpture, "Praying Hands," is located in Tulsa on the campus of Oral Roberts University.
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Before World War II, Oklahoma's biggest crop was cotton.
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Today, Oklahoma's biggest crop is wheat.
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The Fort Gibson Stockade located in the town of Fort Gibson is a reconstruction of the 1824 log fort and is a fun place to visit.
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The Illinois River in northeastern Oklahoma is a popular spot for taking overnight float trips in canoes and flatboats.
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Oklahoma City named a street after its native Broadway star, Carol Channing.
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The constitutional convention for the proposed state of Sequoyah was held in Muskogee.
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John Steinbeck wrote the "Grapes of Wrath," which depicted Oklahoma's "Dust Bowl."
