The Enid-Pond Creek Railroad War (Oklahoma Territory, 1893–1894) pitted the citizens of two United States designated county seats against the Rock Island Railroad.
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“It might be seen by what tenure men held the earth. The smallest stream is mediterranean sea, a smaller ocean creek within the land, where men may steer by their farm bounds and cottage lights. For my own part, but for the geographers, I should hardly have known how large a portion of our globe is water, my life has chiefly passed within so deep a cove. Yet I have sometimes ventured as far as to the mouth of my Snug Harbor.”
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