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The Singing Rage, Miss Patti Page

Born Clara Ann Fowler on November 8, 1927 in Claremore, Oklahoma, Patti Page became a pop music legend, selling in excess of 100 million records over a career that spanned seven decades. From humble beginnings as one of eleven children born to a railroad foreman…

Palace, Cadet and Yale

ONCE THERE WAS THE PALACE, THE CADET AND THE YALE Published in the Claremore Daily Progress on September 24, 2011 by Larry Larkin There is no trace of them today, but Claremore movie fans once had to make a decision. Three theaters were located within…

Memories from Playing in the Negro League

Published in the Claremore Daily Progress in January 23, 2014 by Larry Larkin. Thursday’s rainout at the Rogers State softball field reminded me of another weather postponement that happened 37 years ago. Like in the famed “Casey at the Bat” baseball tale, things looked dim…

Judy Eagleton – Growing up in Claremore

Published in the Claremore Daily Progress in August 18, 2007 by Larry Larkin. For someone having a question concerning Will Rogers, the best place to seek an answer would be making a visit to Claremore's Will Rogers Memorial. Need to know something about a…

John Cockrum – Memories from Pearl Harbor

Excerpts from a news spot on KTUL TV produced by Tyler Butler and aired on September 2, 2020 and a FB post made by Steve Robinson on the Claremore MoH FB page. It was a calm, clear Sunday morning in Pearl Harbor, and an ordinary…

J. Bartley Milam

This story was printed in The Ranchman Magazine, December 1953nby Myron A. Hurd. Back in March 1948, I wrote in “The Country Correspondent” column for the Claremore Progress about a trip I took with the late Chief of the Cherokees, J. Bartley Milam of Claremore. I would…

How Claremore Came to Be

As published in Legends of America by Kathy Weiser in February, 2013 with additional edits by Ron Warnick, Route 66 News. Claremore got its beginnings when Chief Glahmo led his tribe of Osage Indians from Missouri in 1802. He soon established a fur trading post along…

Gatesway Balloon Festival

As published in Travel Magazine, April 2011 article written by Joy Hampton. Held in August at Cherokee Casino Will Rogers Downs located on Highway 20 east of Claremore, the annual Gatesway Balloon Festival is a family friendly even with fun for all ages. Anywhere from…

Carrie Dickerson – An Unlikely Activist

Excerpts from an article in the Claremore Daily Progress article written by Rebecca Hattaway and published November 18, 2006. To the world she was known as the woman who led the successful fight that stopped the building of a nuclear power plant in Oklahoma. In…

Belvidiere – A Peek at History

As posted on MoreClaremore on November 13, 2013 by Kathy Weiser. The Belvidere Mansion in Claremore, Oklahoma, not only provides a peek at history, but possibly, even a peek at a ghost or two. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the three-story mansion…

Battle of Claremore Mound

Published by Jon D. May with the Oklahoma Historical Society. The Battle of Claremore Mound occurred in October 1817, when Western Cherokee and their allies attacked the lightly defended village of Chief Claremore (Gra-mo'n or Arrow Going Home), leader of the Arkansas Band of Osage.…

Arrow Going Home

This story appeared in the June 28, 1953 Claremore Progress by R. H. Fowler. Different versions as told by researching ceases to die. Destined to be a byword from time it was first used, the name CLAREMORE has a unique historical back ground from…