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* 2008 August: Osage County * – Tracy Letts
With the 1870 Drum Creek Treaty, the Kansas land was sold for $ 1. 25 per acre and the Osage purchased in Indian Territory ’ s Cherokee Outlet, the current Osage County, Oklahoma.
* Osage County ( southwest at a point in the Missouri River )
* In Tracy Letts ' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, Bill Fordham uses the phrase to describe his marital problems with his wife Barbara when he says to her: " Just because you and I are struggling with this Gordian knot doesn't make me any less of a --"
* Beverly Weston, fictional character in " August: Osage County "
Named for President George Washington, it is the smallest county in Oklahoma in total area, adjacent to the largest county in Oklahoma, Osage County.
Bartlesville became an oil boom town only after 1900, when the nearby Osage County oil fields were developed and railroads were built into the area.
In 1900, Phoenix Oil Company built a pipeline from Osage County to Bartlesville's Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway depot, where there was an oil loading facility.
* Osage County ( west )
His article describing the visit includes an old map showing the fort located on the north bank of the Arkansas River near Sand Creek, just south of the line separating Tulsa County and Osage County.
According to the Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, the Arkansas Band of the Osage Nation settled in the Three Forks area ( the junction of the Arkansas River, Grand River and Verdigris River during the 1760s and established two villages called Pasuga and Pasona in what is now Rogers County.
The Osage Tribe used the area that contains present day Pawnee County as buffalo hunting grounds.
* Osage County ( north )
By 1760, they had increased their range to include the present Osage County.
It became a semi-autonomous district by the Oklahoma Enabling Act of 1906, and Osage County at the time of Oklahoma Statehood in 1907.
During the 1920s, Osage County was the site of the infamous Osage Indian murders.
A view of Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in Osage County, Oklahoma
Eastern Osage County drains into Caney River, Bird Creek, Hominy Creek, and Delaware Creek.
( The six counties in descending order of area are Corson County ; Osage County ; Shannon County, South Dakota ; Todd County, South Dakota ; Sioux County, North Dakota ; and Mahnomen County, Minnesota.

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* Oil is discovered on the Osage Indian reservation, making the Osage the richest group of people in the world.
A silkworm's preferred food is white mulberry leaves, but it may also eat the leaves of any other mulberry tree ( i. e., Morus rubra or Morus nigra ) as well as the Osage Orange.
This is best documented among Osage and Quapaw Indian tribes of Missouri and Arkansas.
" Wisdom of the Willow Tree " is an Osage Nation story in which a young man seeks answers from a willow tree, addressing the tree in conversation as ' Grandfather '.
Coterminous with the Osage Indian Reservation, it is the home of the federally recognized Osage Nation.
Most of the county is in the Osage Plains, and consists of open prairie.
Dewey County is also slightly larger than Osage County in area.
The eastern part of the county is within the Eastern Lowlands physiographic region and the western part is in the Osage Plains.
Wakan Tanka or Wakan is also known as Wakanda in the Omaha-Ponca, Ioway-Otoe-Missouri, Kansa and Osage languages ; and Wakatakeh in Quapaw.
Osage County is a county located in Central Missouri in the United States.
The center of population of Missouri is located in Osage County in the city of Westphalia.
Osage County is part of the Jefferson City Metropolitan Statistical Area.
According to data from the 2010 U. S. Census, Osage County is the whitest county in Missouri, with 98. 85 percent of residents being white.
Linn County should not be confused with the city of Linn, which is located in Osage County east of Jefferson City approximately 100 miles southeast of Linn County.
On their southeastern border they were neighbors of the Osage, although there is no evidence that either of these tribes ever had a truly permanent settlement in the territory of Cass County.
This treaty, whose first signatory was William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition fame, required that the Shawnee move to what is now known as Shawnee Mission, Kansas, on land that had previously belonged to the Osage tribes.
The county along with Jackson, Jefferson, Osage, and Wabaunsee counties is included in the Topeka Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 234, 647 in 2011.
It is bordered by Jackson County on the north, Jefferson County on the north and east, Douglas County on the east, Osage County on the south, Wabaunsee County on the west, and Pottawatomie County on the west.
Osage County ( county code OS ) is a county located in east-central Kansas, in the Central United States.

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The eastern part of the county contains the Osage Hills, an extension of the Flint Hills in Kansas.
The county lies in the Osage Plains, on the western edge of the Ozark Plateau, and drains into several tributaries of the Neosho River.
A part of the 1808 Osage Native American land cession, the county was settled in the early 1830s by pioneers from Kentucky and Tennessee.
The King ’ s Highway ( El Camino Real ), laid out in 1789, crossed the county which lies in territory claimed by Osage Native American tribes until 1808.
The county was organized January 29, 1841, and named for the Osage River.
Its county seat is Lyndon, and its most populous city is Osage City.
Osage County was a prohibition, or " dry ", county until the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 and voters approved the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with a 30 % food sales requirement.
The county along with Shawnee, Jackson, Osage, and Wabaunsee counties is included in the Topeka, Kansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The county along with Shawnee, Jefferson, Osage, and Wabaunsee counties is included in the Topeka, Kansas, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
First visited by the explorer DeSoto in 1537, Cowley County was officially organized as a county, but reserved for the Osage Indians, by the Kansas Legislature in March 1867, originally named Hunter County for Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter ( 1809 – 1887 ), a Virginia Representative and Senator to Congress and Speaker of the House in the twenty-sixth Congress.
Upon establishment of Benton County on September 30, 1836, Osage was deemed a suitable site for the county seat, and the town square was established as the home of county government the following year.
Lyndon is a city in and the county seat of Osage County, Kansas, United States.
The new county was called Lillard County, Missouri, and it included what are now Lafayette and Johnson Counties, as well as all the areas south to the Osage River and west to the Missouri Border.
It is the county seat of Osage County.

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