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Oil on linen
Dimensions: 13' x 27'
Commissioned by the Oklahoma Legislature in 1970
Dedicated on November 16, 1976
5th floor Rotunda

Reading

Oklahoma Adventure, Centennial Edition 2006 by Oklahoma History Press
Unit 1: Chapter 3: American Explorers, pages 28-34 and
Unit 1: Chapter 4: Early Government, pages 35-39

Oklahoma: Land of Contrasts by Clairmont Press
Chapter 5: Oklahoma in Early America, pages 111-121, 131-133

The Story of Oklahoma, Second Edition by Baird and Goble
Unit 2: The Discovery of Oklahoma; Chapter 6: American Explorers in Oklahoma, pages 80-88

Further Reading
Hunt, David C, The Lithographs of Charles Banks Wilson (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989).

Wilson, Charles Banks, Search for the Purebloods (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1982).

Cagle, Charles, An Oklahoma Portrait: Conversations with the artist Charles Banks Wilson (Thomas Gilcrease Museum Association, 1989).