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In 1916, Lee F. Gilstrap was a 16-year-old bugler for the First Oklahoma Infantry commanded by his father, Major Harry Gilstrap. When America entered the first World War, Gilstrap, then 18, volunteered to serve in France under his father’s command. On October 8, 1918, Company
Telling the History of Claremore…one story at a time This article was published in the Claremore Progress, Centennial Edition, June 17, 1993 byy Pat Reeder. Before the turn of the century, Philip and Elizabeth Jones Land came to Indian Territory to build a flour
Telling the history of Claremore…one story at a time The stage curtains part as the melodic cowboy song, “Oh! What A Beautiful Morning” captures the moment, and the audience is magically taken back to 1900 to a place in Oklahoma, a farm near Claremore. The playwright,
