3．Vinita is the oldest incorporated town on Oklahoma Route 66being established in 1871．Vinita was the first town in Oklahoma to enjoy electricity．Originally named Downingville．The towns name was later changed to Vinita，in honor of Vinnie Ream，the sculptress（女雕刻家）who created the life－size statue of Lincoln at the United States Capitol．
4．During a tornado（旋风，龙卷风，大雷雨，具有巨大破坏性的人（或事物））in Ponca City，a man and his wife were carried aloft（在高处，在上）in their house by a tornado．The walls and roof were blown away．But the floor remained intact（完整无缺的）and eventually glided downward，setting the couple safely back on the ground．
5．The Amateur Softball Association of America—a volunteer－driven，not－for－profit organization based in Oklahoma City，OK—was founded in 1933and has evolved into the strongest softball（垒球）organization in the country．
6．A statue entitled “Hopes and Dreams，”in downtown Perry was created by local sculptor Bill Bennett and placed there on a massive granite pedestal as a Cherokee（切罗基族（北美易洛魁人的一支）人）Strip Centennial memorial．The statue portrays（描绘）an early－day couple coming to the newly opened western frontier．
7．Turner Falls Park in Davis is the oldest park in Oklahoma．Many springs from the world famous Arbuckle Mountains form Honey Creek that cascades（小瀑布，喷流）down a seventy－seven foot fall to a natural swimming pool making the majestic（宏伟的，庄严的）Turner Falls the largest waterfall in Oklahoma．
8．There is an operating oil well on state capitol（国会大厦，州议会大厦）grounds called Capitol Site No．1．
9．Anadarko is home to the only authentic Indian City in the United States．It is located in the beautiful Washita river valley in southwest Oklahoma．
10．In 1998，a life size statue of a cattle drive，titled “On the Chisholm Trail，”was set in place in Duncan as a monument（纪念碑）to the American Cowboy（〈美〉牛仔，牧童，美国西部牧人）．
11．Phillip H．Sheridan，George A．Custer and William T．Sherman were the founders of the USA’s main artillery fort at Fort Sill．
12．Born in 1879on a large ranch in the Cherokee Nation near what later would become Oologah，Oklahoma，Will Rogers was first an Indian，a cowboy then a national figure．Will Rogers was a star of Broadway and 71movies of the 1920s and 1930s，a popular broadcaster and wrote more than 4，000syndicated（联合成辛迪加）newspaper columns．
13．A life－size statue stands in honor of Astronaut Thomas P．Stafford in Weatherford．
14．Boise City，Oklahoma was the only city in the United States to be bombed during World War II．On Monday night，July 5，1943，at approximately 12∶30a．m．，a B－17Bomber based at Dalhart Army Air Base（50miles to the south of Boise City）dropped six practice bombs on the sleeping town．
15．Choctaw is the oldest chartered town in Oklahoma．Choctaw gained status as a town in 1893．
16．Okmulgee owns the world record for largest pecan（［植］美洲山核桃树，美洲山核桃）pie，pecan cookie，pecan brownie（核仁巧克力饼），and biggest ice cream and cookie（（苏格兰）甜面包，（美国）小甜饼）party．Each June，Okmulgee rolls out the welcome mat to thousands of its closest friends as the annual Pecan Festival comes to town．
17．The National Cowboy Hall of Fame is located in Oklahoma City．
18．The town of Beaver claims to be the Cow Chip Throwing Capital of the World．It is here that the World Championship Cow Chip Throw is held each April．
19．An Oklahoman，Sylvan Goldman，invented the first shopping cart．
20．Known as the Antique Capital of Oklahoma，Jenks is home to the state’s best variety of：Antique Stores，Gift Shops，Galleries，Museums，Crafters Malls，and Collectible（可收集的，可代收的）Retailers．
21．The first capital of Oklahoma was in Guthrie，but was moved later to Oklahoma City following a vote of the people．
22．Originally Indian Territory，the state of Oklahoma was opened to settlers in a “Land Rush”in 1889．On a given date，prospective（预期的）settlers would be allowed into the territory to claim plots（地区图）of land by grabbing the stakes marking each plot．A few of these settlers entered to claim land before the official start of the land run；these cheaters were called “Sooners”．
23．Tahlequah，Oklahoma is the Tribal（部落的，种族的）capital of the Cherokee Nation．
24．Located on the south shores of Grand Lake O’the Cherokees between Langley and Disney．The Pensacola Dam was built in 1940and is still the World’s Longest Multiple Arch Dam．Length of dam／spillway（溢洪道，泄洪道）—6，565feet．Length of multiple－arch section—4，284feet．Pensacola Dam was the first hydroelectric（水力电气的）facility in Oklahoma．
25．Bob Dunn a musician from Beggs invented the first electric guitar 1935．
26．Spiro Mounds，Oklahoma’s only archaeological（考古学的，考古学上的）park，is a 140－acre site encompassing（包围，环绕）12southern mounds（土墩，护堤）that contain evidence of an Indian culture that occupied the site from 850A．D．to 1450A．D．The Mounds are considered one of the four most important prehistoric Indian sites east of the Rocky Mountains．
27．Garth Brooks was born in Tulsa，Oklahoma．He grew up in Yukon，Oklahoma．
28．WKY Radio was the first radio station transmitting（传输，发射）from west of the Mississippi River．
29．A Spanish Colonial Revival building serves as the backdrop for Ponca City’s Centennial（一百年的）Plaza，dedicated during the 100th anniversary celebration of the 1893Land Run．The Plaza features the Centennial Monument by Jo Saylors，surrounded by 7，000named bricks，a statue of E．W．Marland，a War Memorial Fountain，Fire Station No．1and City Hall．
30．State Motto：Labor Omnia Vincit（Labor Conquers All Things）．
31．Belle Starr one of the most famous women outlaws（歹徒，逃犯）is buried in an isolated（隔离的，孤立的）grave southwest of Porum，Oklahoma near the Eufuala Dam．
32．Originally the “Normal School，”University of Central Oklahoma was Oklahoma’s first public school of higher education．It began as a teachers college，and is now a premier institution of education in this region of the United States．
33．In Gurhrie nearly 20，000lighters and “fire starters”are displayed at the National Lighter Museum．The nation’s only museum devoted to the collection of lighters．
34．Oklahoma’s four mountain ranges include the Ouachitas，Arbuckles，Wichitas and the Kiamichis．
