University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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The byway of early French and Spanish explorers, the Arkansas River, serves as the guide for its twentieth cen- tury companion, the nnodern highway, as seen in this view of Oklahoma Highway 33 a few miles west of Tulsa As if reluctant to leave the virgin forests along its banks, the lazy Kiamichi River meanders slowly through Pushmataha County, on past the site of old Fort Towson, to empty itself into the tur- bulent waters of the Red River it rt. IXNr.iVW« » »lAH ' «A(iIMVV ' 1 .v»ijvi. .-v fcn.« iwia» « » ft fv « ' « I

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HOMA Born of mountain springs annid the rugged crags of the Arbuckle and Wichita Mountains, located in southwestern Oklahoma, clear streams tumble and wind their tortuous way through primitive wildness glorious in the beauty which attracts to such play- grounds as Turner Falls, above, and Medicine Creek, on the opposite page

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7 ' ..JiKll .:. Sweeping In fronn the Rocky Mountain region, Old Man Winter strikes at Oklahoma with all his tury, momentum and force to transfigure the Sooner state into a realm of gray beauty as only winter can do. At this time of year scenes like those shown on this page become familiar in contrast with their summer ' s brightness As if in mortal combat mountain crests in southeastern Oklahoma struggle with snow clouds rolling majes- tically overhead Reminiscent of the 17th century, when the first white settlemeni in Oklahoma was es- tablished on its banks, Cherokee Rock Hol- low, six miles north of Salina, patiently awaits the shade of a coming spring Fringed with white and guarded by a maze of gro- tesque trees, Lake Lawtonka sleeps peacefully at the foot of Mt. Scott