Broken Arrow World Weekly Gallery July 13, 2015

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Hard hats and shovels await oicials at a groundbreaking for the Hardesty Center

the Hardesty Center for Dance Education at Tulsa Ballet in Broken Arrow on July 6.

for Dance Education at Tulsa Ballet in Broken Arrow on July 6.

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Tulsa Ballet donors and friends of the ballet applaud during the groundbreaking for

Tulsa Ballet donors and friends of the ballet ready shovels at the groundbreaking for

the Hardesty Center for Dance Education at Tulsa Ballet in Broken Arrow on July 6.

the Hardesty Center for Dance Education at Tulsa Ballet in Broken Arrow on July 6.

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Tulsa Ballet students Audrey Slater (left), Diego Enriquez, Julia Naifeh, Annelise Eggen-McElmurry and Bridie Cooley participate at the groundbreaking for the Hard-

Tulsa Ballet students pose at the groundbreaking for the Hardesty Center for Dance

esty Center for Dance Education at Tulsa Ballet in Broken Arrow on July 6.

Education at Tulsa Ballet in Broken Arrow on July 6.

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Broken Arrow Pride member Camden Crittenden gives blood during the American Red Cross Battle of the Bands Blood Drive at Woodland Hills Mall. Courtesy

Broken Arrow Pride member Hayden Sixsmith gives a “thumbs up� while giving blood at the American Red Cross Battle of the Bands Blood Drive. Courtesy

Jessie Wolters, Kaytlynne Payne, Rachel Cunningham, Reghan Gondles and Landri Collins take a break after giving blood at the American Red Cross Battle of the Bands Blood Drive at Woodland Hills Mall. Courtesy

Rachel Cunningham, Kaytlynne Payne and Chellsi Payne participate in the American Red Cross Battle of the Bands Blood Drive at Woodland Hills Mall. Courtesy

Miranda Schweiger gives blood during the American Red Cross Battle of the Bands Blood Drive at Woodland Hills Mall. Courtesy

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Brothers Isaac Doolen, 9, and Eli Doolen, 7, play a bean bag game during a gathering and movie night at the Farmers Market Plaza in Broken Arrow on Thursday.

JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

 Looking Back at Broken Arrow  The other Chisholm Trail — Since

Alan and Brittany Cook and their 9-month-old daughter, Lyric Cook, listen to music during a gathering and movie night at the Farmers Market Plaza in Broken Arrow on Thursday. JAMES GIBBARD/Tulsa World

Lawson and Andrea Glenn and their daughters Anna Glenn (left), 2, and Jaiden Glenn, 4, listen to music during a gathering and movie night at the Farmers Market Plaza in Broken Arrow on Thursday.

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the Shawnee Indians, one of whom

Europeans settled the plains, there have

was Sampson. In June 1870, the Osage

been cattle here. The native bison that

proclaimed that there would be a toll

had dominated the area were gradually

of 10 cents on each head of cattle that

replaced with domesticated cattle

crossed Osage land. That fall, Sampson

imported from Europe. However, the

established his own trail from Chisholm,

plains were isolated and it was diicult

Texas, just east of Dallas to Cofeyville,

to get the cattle from the pasture land

Kansas. It crossed the Red River just

where they were raised to the markets

north of Denison and headed almost due

where they were consumed. The

north to Holdenville where it angled east,

railroads did much of the heavy lifting,

eventually entering what would become

but expansion took time. The solution

Tulsa County. It entered Broken Arrow

was a cattle drive. There were a number

near what would become Elam and

of trails that ran from Texas through

meandered back and forth across what

Oklahoma and into Kansas where they

is today Aspen before angling north and

terminated in various railheads. The

east toward Catoosa, where it continued

most famous of these was the Chisholm

north. The Osage toll was the beginning

Trail that wound through the central

of the end for the cattle drives. More and

part of Oklahoma. It was named after

more ranchers began erecting fences

Jesse Chisholm. However, there was

on their land that impeded the progress

another Chisholm Trail named after

of the cattle. This made the task more

Sampson Chisholm, who, it is believed,

logistically diicult. When the railroad

was an adopted son of Jesse. Jesse had

extended into Texas, the need for the

purchased three Mexican children from

drives disappeared.

Courtesy of the Broken Arrow Historical Society

Residents take part in a

Sisters Jaiden Glenn (left),

gathering and movie night

4, and Anna Glenn, 2, play

at the Farmers Market

a bean bag game during a

Plaza in Broken Arrow on

gathering and movie night

Thursday.

at the Farmers Market

JAMES GIBBARD/

Plaza on Thursday.

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JAMES GIBBARD/ Tulsa World

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