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First stop: Guthrie, Oklahoma, first capital of this state. We visited a fascinating museum on the Oklahoma Territory, especially the land rushes. Among other things, we found out that the 1889 land rush only involved SOME of central Oklahoma and that there were 4 other Oklahoma land rushes after that. Can you imagine thousands of people trying to stake out claims starting at 12 noon?? We hear the lawyers were busy from the start!! The buildings are all in a time warp of 1900. When the capital was moved to Oklahoma City in 1910, property values decreased 80%.
We had lunch in Stillwater, home of Oklahoma State University, the cowboys. The campus is pretty with all red brick buildings. (Sound familiar?) Even the happenin eatery Eskimo Joe's looks like a Miami U. hangout. Very busy, etc. It was move in day for freshmen. Darrell was wearing his Oklahoma t-shirt, and got called out on it no less than 3 times. From there we blazed to Branson to see a fabulous evening show: Top Ten Rock and Roll. The entire cast was excellent, but the piano player stole the show with his rendition of Jerry Lee Lewis songs. He even played with his foot and elbow! It was very entertaining to listen to Mammas and Pappas, as well as Eric Clapton and many others.