Tahlequah · Pawhuska · Grand Lake
Green Country
The wooded northeast. Prairie, lakes, Cherokee and Osage country, and rolling hills people don't expect from Oklahoma.
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Entry 03 · History · Wildlife · Food
Osage County
County Seat: Pawhuska · ≈ 105 mi · 1 hr 50 min
Osage County is bigger than Delaware, built on oil, tribal headrights, and one of the darkest chapters in American history. Today it is bison on the largest tallgrass prairie left on earth, and a food destination in a town of 3,500.
Entry 06 · Rivers · History · Cherokee Heritage
Cherokee County
County Seat: Tahlequah · ≈ 160 mi · 2 hr 30 min
Tahlequah is the capital of the Cherokee Nation and the end of the Trail of Tears, a town where the street signs carry Cherokee syllabary and the Illinois River runs cold and clear through the Oklahoma Ozarks. History and float trips in one place, two and a half hours east of base camp.
Entry 08 · Oil History · Architecture · Woolaroc
Washington County
County Seat: Bartlesville · ≈ 140 mi · 2 hr 15 min
Bartlesville is oil-boom Oklahoma at its grandest: the birthplace of Phillips Petroleum, a Frank Lloyd Wright skyscraper on the prairie, and a ranch-museum with bison roaming free. Two hours northeast of base camp, it is a county built on one of the great American oil fortunes.
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