gruthrie

Updated: June 6, 2025

By nightfall a stretch of waving prairie became Gruthrie, with a population of 10,000 persons; by the evening of the first day Oklahoma possessed a population of 50,000; twenty years later it had over a million and a half, contained flourishing cities, many public enterprises, and a beautiful state university.

Charles Ramsdell Lingley - The United States Since the Civil War