Volume 9 , Issue 17

Merger of Oklahoma & Indian Territory

"Your story on the merger of the Indian and Oklahoma Territories into one state was great! I had heard that Governor C. N. Haskell, under cover of darkness that night, moved the state papers to Oklahoma City and declared that city the capital on the next day. This was a great surprise to the people of Guthrie, the territorial capital, but there was nothing they could do about it. The territorial capital building was temporarily used by a university, but that didn't work out. After quite a while being a white elephant, the city sold the building to the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite Masons of Oklahoma on condition that they maintain it well and add a beautiful face to it. This they have done and more." --Dr. Joel Berg, Henderson, NV
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