Ponca City, located in northcentral Oklahoma in the east end of the historical Cherokee Outlet, was founded on September 16, 1893 during the Cherokee Strip land run. Early in the twentieth century E.W. Marland came to Oklahoma. His vision was not for farming but oil. He meant to find it and sell it in the east. Later, he took it a step further and refined it on the spot shipping the products all over the world through his company Marland Oil, which eventually became Conoco-Phillips in 2002. Marland wound up employing the unemployed who were then fed by the area farmers. The wealth he was able...