| Oklahoma, during prehistoric times, as evidenced
by the fossil record, was part of the great sea that covered it, Kansas,
and Texas. Thankfully, God saw fit to uplift the land. It was a close vote
but He also lifted up Texas too.
Early settlers of European stock came to the country claming to have
discovered it. Someone needs to explain how they can have discovered it
when the Native American Indians were already here.
Frenchman Jean Pierre Chouteau was the first settler to make a permanent
post west of the Mississippi River. He did so in Oklahoma.
Before him, the Spanish conquistadores came looking for riches
in the New World, which, by this time, was discovered to have the same
geological age as the rest of the Earth. Cortes and Coronado are two of
these explorers from Spain to reportedly travel to Oklahoma.
Even before that, however, European visitors left evidence of their
travels to our State by carving graffiti on our rocks. They were the Vikings.
The carvings are runes. The rocks are at Heavener.
The State became a State in 1907. We have been leaving our mark on the
world ever since. |