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"Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain..."

?Oscar Hammerstein (see also 25 Oklahoma Rev. Statutes, sec. 94.1)

Next month, when a revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma!

opens on Broadway, audiences will have a taste of how entertaining history can be. Set nearly a century ago, on the eve of the Sooner State's admission to the Union, the musical's vision of life before statehood is accurate, up to a point.

But Oklahoma's real history is far more entertaining. Whether as the Oklahoma and the Indian Territories or as a new state, Oklahoma was a gold mine for an unscrupulous lawyer, and it had many of them.

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Among the greatest was Moman Pruiett (1872-1945), "The Black Stud of the Washita," "the murderer's messiah," himself a man "as liable to punctuate a point with a bullet as an epigram." "Brutal murder?single, triple, five at a time, with poison, axe and firearm," was his meat.

"I ain't no attorney," Moman said. "I'm a la