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Oklahoma War Chief

Kay County
Location: on US-177 west of Braman
Topics: Land Openings; Mass Communication; Military; Settlement Patterns; Territorial Period, 1861–1907

Captain David L. Payne published the first newspaper in the Cherokee Outlet, the Oklahoma War Chief, on June 14, 1884, in a printing plant in a tent in this area. The printing office was burned by federal troops two months later.

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