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- ↑ Oklahoma Almanac. Oklahoma Department of Libraries. 1995. ISBN 9781880438022.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-11-21. Retrieved 2014-11-14.
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