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Horse Trading for a Better Guthrie

by | Jun 30, 2008 | True Westerners

How the power of the few brought back the “Magic City.”
Many nights, during the late 1970s, Ralph McCalmont had to remind himself he was trying to save Oklahoma's "magic city." Opposition was so loud and so hurtful, he wondered if it was worth it. Then he thought of Guthrie—a city created in just six hours, going from zero to 10,000 residents on April 22, 1889, in President Benjamin Harrison’s “Hoss Race” that o


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