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A Little About Woodward
Woodward is a vibrant Northwest Oklahoma community that has been acknowledged as one of Oklahoma's Best Places to Live! It is recognized as one of the 100 small communities in the nation!

The City of Woodward, Oklahoma serves as the county seat of Woodward County, Oklahoma. The population was 11,853 at the 2000 census.

SHOPPING
Woodward is a retail and entertainment hub for a market of 78,000 people from throughout southwest Kansas, the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles, and northwest Oklahoma. With a large variety of stores, restaurants, boutiques, antique shops and entertainment facilities, there is shopping and entertainment for almost any interest. You can find antiques, department and specialty stores, sporting goods, book, candles, music, monogramming, candy, flowers, custom framing, interior design, arts and crafts, custom leather work, lawnmowers, livestock supplies, farm equipment and more.
MAIN STREET
The citizens and businesses of Woodward realize the importance and financial impact of a thriving downtown district. They have made Woodward on official part of the Oklahoma Main Street Program. The Main Street Program works to revitalize downtown by restoring the area to its original rustic charm. Spring, summer and fall are perfect for the Farmer's Market in downtown Woodward where fresh fruits, vegetables and handmade goods can be purchased. Woodward Main Street offers a quaint alternative to the ordinary shopping experience.

HISTORY
Before the American Civil War, Woodward and its surrounding area was inhabited by the Kiowa, Comanche, Apache, Cheyenne, Arapaho and Plains tribes. Boiling Springs, near present day Woodward, was a favorite campsite of the Plains Indians. A wide area around the springs later became the scene of numerous battles between these tribes and the white man. After the Civil War, various military expeditions were led against the Plains tribes in Woodward County by Lieutenant Colonels Alfred Sully and George Armstrong Custer and General Philip Sheridan, who were stationed near Woodward at Fort Supply.

Woodward was established in 1887 at the junction of the Fort Reno Military Road and the Southern Kansas Railway (a subsidiary of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad ) on the south bank of the North Canadian River. It soon became an important shipping point, both for provisioning Fort Supply and as a place for loading cattle grazed in the Cherokee Outlet. Before statehood, Woodward was one of the most extensive cattle shipping points in Oklahoma Territory. The Great Western Cattle Trail crossed where Woodward now stands.

More than fifty thousand individuals and families settled across the old Cherokee Outlet of northern Oklahoma on September 16, 1893 in the greatest land run in American history. The settlers founded cities that day from Woodward all the way to Enid, Oklahoma and Ponca City, Oklahoma. In the summer of 1893, carpenters erected the first government building at the railroad depot called Woodward. By that time, Woodward had approximately 200 residents. Since before statehood, Woodward has served as the county seat of Woodward County, Oklahoma.

Woodward, like Dodge City, Kansas to the North, boasted the usual array of saloons, gambling halls, and brothels. Woodward's Equity, Midway, Shamrock, and Cabinet saloons, and Dew Drop Inn, were widely known as watering holes for drovers at the end of a cattle drive. The latter, which also served as a brothel, was owned and managed by Dollie Kezer, who before her arrival in Woodward, worked at some of Denver, Colorado 's most famous brothels and was known to have attended lavish parties thrown by Horace Tabor.

In its early years, Woodward was home to Temple Lea Houston, the son of Texas revolutionary Samuel Houston, and Jack E. Love. It was in Woodward's Cabinet Saloon that Houston, a gun-slinging lawyer, shot the brother of the outlaw Al Jennings after a personal disagreement with Jennings' brother and father.

His close friend, Jack E. Love, joined Houston in the gun-fight. Houston was tried for murder in Woodward but was acquitted on grounds of self-defense. Love was later elected to the office of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission and served as its first chairman.

Houston, who won a reputation as a brilliant trial lawyer known for his courtroom dramatics, delivered his famous Soiled Dove Plea in a makeshift courtroom in Woodward's opera house. The argument, made on behalf of a prostitute who worked at the Dew Drop Inn, resulted in her acquittal after ten minutes. Houston served as the inspiration for the character Yancey Cravat in Edna Ferber 's book Cimarron, and the booming frontier town described in the book is easily recognized as the town in which Houston lived: Woodward. Houston is buried in Woodward's Elmwood Cemetery.

On September 7, 1907, William Jennings Bryan spoke to 20,000 people gathered in Woodward and urged the ratification of Oklahoma's proposed constitution and the election of a democratic ticket. Two months later the proclamation admitting Oklahoma as a state was signed by Theodore Roosevelt with the quill from an American Golden Eagle captured near Woodward.

By a 1911 Act of Congress, Woodward became a designated court town for the United States District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. A United States Post Office and Courthouse

AGRICULTURE
By the early 1900's, the introduction of Hereford cattle took root in Woodward County. With this development, cattlemen such as Dan Waggoner and his son, W. T. Waggoner, attempted to lease school lands in Woodward County for grazing. These attempts led to the formation of the Oklahoma Livestock Association by Woodward County ranchers. By 1930, the ranching and cattle industry dominated Woodward's economy. At the urging of Senator Thomas P. Gore and the former law partner of Temple Houston, David P. Marum, the United States government located an agricultural research station in Woodward in 1912. On February 23, 1933, Oklahoma's first commercial-grade cattle auction, the Woodward Livestock Auction, opened in Woodward.

In 1929, Woodward ranchers and businessmen organized the Woodward Elks Rodeo, which through 1959 was one of the premier cowboy rodeos in the nation. As many as 35,000 people would attend the three-day event. National rodeo champions such as Bob Crosby, Paul Carney, Toots Mansfield, Homer Pettigrew, Ace Soward, Eddie Curtis, Jess Goodspeed, Ike Rude, Jim Shoulder, Sonny Davis, Sonny Linger, and Tater Decker all competed at the Woodward Elks Rodeo.

VISITORS
On March 13, 1894, outlaws Bill Doolin and Bill Dalton robbed the railroad station at Woodward, Oklahoma Territory, taking an undisclosed amount of money.

On September 13, 1934, Charles Lindbergh and Anne Morrow Lindbergh made an unexpected emergency landing 23 miles northeast of Woodward. The Lindberghs spent two days at a rural farm waiting for a relief plane to arrive at Woodward. Charles Lindbergh graciously refused to give any interviews, saying he and his wife were eager for privacy and no longer wanted to be in the public spotlight. Forty-eight years later another celebrity, Flip Wilson, unexpectedly landed his helium balloon seven miles east of Woodward in the town of Mooreland.

On January 14, 1957, President Dwight Eisenhower, who was accompanied by Ezra Taft Benson, made a 12 mile inspection tour of drought damaged lands around Woodward and was received by a crowd of 12,000 people at the Woodward Municipal Airport.

WEATHER
On April 9, 1947, the deadliest tornado in Oklahoma history tore through Woodward, killing 107 people and destroying 100 city blocks. The family of storms, known as the Glazier-Higgins-Woodward Tornadoes, ranked as the sixth deadliest in US history, having caused many fatalities and much damage in other communities in Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas.

Woodward Oklahoma in 1910!

BUSINESSES
Between 1934 and 1999, the Trego's Westwear Company of Woodward manufactured Western cut clothing for customers all over the world. Rodeo and movie stars were customers of the company and costumes were frequently made for Dale Evans and Roy Rogers. As dress became more casual in the 1980's and 1990's, interest in Western wear waned. Trego's closed its manufacturing plant in 1995.

On May 18, 1956, Charlie Pappe, a local Woodward grocer, opened the second Top-Hat Drive-In Restaurant in the United States, which was the precursor to the Sonic Drive-In. A few months earlier, Pappe had introduced himself to Sonic's founder, Troy Smith, while visiting friends in Shawnee, Oklahoma.

Other Notable Facts About Woodward Oklahoma

• Olin E. Teague, military hero and long-term Texas Congressman was born in Woodward, Oklahoma on April 6, 1910.
• Will Rogers was employed as a cowboy at a ranch near Woodward.
• Charles E. Jones, buffalo hunter, merchant, Indian trader, teamster, and rancher, spent his declining years in Woodward, Oklahoma, and died there on June 3, 1935.
• Dick Thompson Morgan, United States Congressman, 2nd District, Oklahoma 1909-15, 8th District, Oklahoma 1915-20.
• Robert J. Ray, resided in Woodward, 1893-1901, Registrar United States Land Office, Woodward, Woodward County Attorney, Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma , 1923-1927.
• Charles Swindall, United States Congressman, Oklahoma; Justice of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, 1929-1934.
• Philip Colgan Ferguson, United States Congressman, 8th District, State of Oklahoma, 1935-1941.
• Lyle Gaston, songwriter and native of Woodward. Songwriter for Hank Thompson and the Brazos Valley Boys. Author of "Blackboard of My Heart", "Mr. and Mrs. Snowman", "How Do You hold a Memory?", "Two Hearts Deep in the Blues", "My Old Flame", and "You'll Be the One" performed by Hank Thompson . Author of "Stockings and Shoes" performed by Eddie Cochran.
• Terry "Buffalo" Ware, guitarist and songwriter originally from Woodward. Long-time guitarist for Ray Wylie Hubbard . Guitarist for Jimmy LaFave from 1997-2000. Co-author, with Hubbard, of "Here Comes The Night" and "Love In Vain".
• Robert (Bob) Dale Fenimore, football player and native of Woodward. Oklahoma A&M now Oklahoma State University 's first two-time All American football player. Following college, Fenimore was a first draft choice of the Chicago Bears. Fenimore is a member of the Oklahoma Football Hall of Fame, the Big 8 Football Hall of Fame and the National Football Foundation Hall of Fame. He played on the winning 1945 Cotton Bowl and 1946 Sugar Bowl teams. He received his B. S. degree from Oklahoma A&M in 1947.
• Ace Soward, Nationally known rodeo cowboy, circa 1930's.
• Monte Reger, Rodeo promoter in Southwest United States, horse breeder, father of Virginia Reger Morton
• Virginia Reger Morton, Rodeo trick rider and roper
• Bobby Joe Cudd, Oilfield firefighter. Founder of Cudd Pressure Control, Inc. and Bobcat Pressure Control. Cudd Pressure Control was one of two companies retained by the government of Kuwait to control the massive oil field fires left in the wake of the Gulf War .
• Paul Laune, American author and Western illustrator.
• Best selling novelist D. Mikels , author of Dawn of the Transcendence , Walk-On , and The Reckoning , resides in Woodward.
• Terry Peach , farmer, rancher, Secretary and Commissioner of the Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture (2003-present), Oklahoma State Executive Director, United States Department of Agriculture Farm Service Agency (1993-2000)
• Woodward Public School's Mascot is the "Boomer," named for the people who waited for the official start of the land runs. It is the only public school to use this name.

Sources: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia and Woodward Online.

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