Hollywood brought the Sooner State to Arizona.
When Hollywood decided to make a movie of the Broadway play “Oklahoma” they couldn’t find a location in the Sooner State that resembled Oklahoma in 1907. Someone suggested southern Arizona, so the cast and crew headed for Santa Cruz County. Oklahomans were outraged. Since the cast and crew were lodging in Nogales, the generous citizens of the border town agreed to let the state of Oklahoma annex them until the filming was done. Thus for a time, the town of Nogales was officially in Oklahoma.
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