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McCurtain County
McCurtain County is in the southeastern corner of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,151. Its county seat is Idabel. It was formed at statehood from part of the earlier Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory.Coleman, Louis"McCurtain County" ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', Oklahoma Historical Society, 2009. Accessed April 4, 2015. The name honors an influential Choctaw family that lived in the area. Green McCurtain was the last chief when Oklahoma became a state in 1907."Origin of County Names in Oklahoma". In: ''Chronicles of Oklahoma''. Volume 2, Number 1. March, 1924.
Retrieved February 14, 2014.


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McCurtain or variant forms may refer to: People * Conchobhar Mac Curtain (1660–1724), officer in the Royal Irish Army of King James II * Dermot Mac Curtain (born 1957), Irish hurler * Florimond-Benjamin MacCurtain (1764–1857), French politician and soldier * Green McCurtain (Greenwood McCurtain, 1848–1910), Principal Chief of the Choctaw Nation * Liam Mac Curtain an Dúna, (1658–1724), Irish poet and scholar * Margaret MacCurtain (born 1929), Irish historian, writer and educator * Seán McCurtin (1896–1982), Irish politician * Tomás Mac Curtain (1884–1920), a Lord Mayor of Cork, Ireland Places * McCurtain, Oklahoma, U.S * McCurtain County, Oklahoma, U.S. See also * * * * Curtain (other) * Curtin (surname) * Irish name A formal Irish name consists of a given name and a surname. In the Irish language, surnames are generally patronymic in etymology but are no longer literal patronyms as, for example, most Icelandic names still are. The form of a surname vari ...
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Valliant, Oklahoma
Valliant is a town in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States. The population was 754 at the 2010 census. History Valliant was founded June 2, 1902, in what was the Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory, and named for Frank W. Valliant, a chief divisional engineer for the Arkansas and Choctaw Railway then being constructed in the area.Smith, Joy McDougal and Sharon McKeever. "Valiant." ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.
Accessed October 11, 2018.
At the time of its founding, Valliant was located in Towson County, a part of the

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Trout
Trout are species of freshwater fish belonging to the genera '' Oncorhynchus'', ''Salmo'' and ''Salvelinus'', all of the subfamily Salmoninae of the family Salmonidae. The word ''trout'' is also used as part of the name of some non-salmonid fish such as ''Cynoscion nebulosus'', the spotted seatrout or speckled trout. Trout are closely related to salmon and char (or charr): species termed salmon and char occur in the same genera as do fish called trout (''Oncorhynchus'' – Pacific salmon and trout, ''Salmo'' – Atlantic salmon and various trout, ''Salvelinus'' – char and trout). Lake trout and most other trout live in freshwater lakes and rivers exclusively, while there are others, such as the steelhead, a form of the coastal rainbow trout, that can spend two or three years at sea before returning to fresh water to spawn (a habit more typical of salmon). Arctic char and brook trout are part of the char genus. Trout are an important food source for humans and wildlife, ...
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Broken Bow Lake
Broken Bow Lake is a reservoir in southeastern Oklahoma, located on Mountain Fork River and northeast of the town of Broken Bow in McCurtain County. It is one of the largest fresh water lakes within the state of Oklahoma, and a popular tourist destination for locals and visitors from neighboring Texas and Arkansas. The lake stretches back into the Ouachita Mountain country where its unusual beauty and scenic appeal beckons all sorts of nature enthusiasts. The mountain terrain is densely forested and there are many species of birds native to the area for birdwatchers to enjoy. History Points of historical interest located on or near Broken Bow Lake are old Hochatown, inundated by the lake, which was settled by the Choctaw Indians in the early 1830s. The Choctaws incorporated the area into Bok Tuklo County, a part of the Apukshunnubbee District of the Choctaw Nation. Broken Bow, center of the Oklahoma timber production, was named by the Dierks brothers, pioneer lumbermen, ...
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Wright City, Oklahoma
Wright City is a town in McCurtain County, Oklahoma, McCurtain County, Oklahoma, United States, along the Little River (Red River), Little River. The population was 762 at the 2010 census, a decline of slightly more than 10 percent from the figure of 848 recorded in United States Census, 2000, 2000. Wright City hosts one of the oldest continuous rodeos in Oklahoma, known as Little Cheyenne, held each July 1 through 4. In 1933 a few local cowboys started it as a rodeo, barbecue, and dance. Since 1935, the American Legion, William Wright Post Number 74, has sponsored the event. Wright City was once home to a Weyerhaeuser plant; it closed permanently in mid March 2009 due to the slowed lumber industry. The company sold its cardboard product line to International Paper Corporation. Weyerhaeuser was Wright City's economic power engine, and its closing affected 165 employees. History Founding Wright City, formerly known as Bismark and Wright, is located northeast of Valliant and north ...
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Glover River
The Glover River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed June 3, 2011 tributary of the Little River in the Ouachita Mountains of southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Little and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. The Glover River flows for its entire length in McCurtain County. It is formed by the confluence of its East Fork, long, and its West Fork, long; both forks rise near the northern boundary of McCurtain County. It joins the Little River southeast of Wright City. Conservation and recreation The Glover River is remote and little known, but has Class I and II rapids, good scenery, and canoeing and kayaking except in summer when water levels are often too low for floating. Its course is through a heavily forested area bordered by steep bluffs on each side of the river. The Glover flows through the Three Rivers Wildlife Management Area, owned by the W ...
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Little River (Red River)
The Little River is a tributary of the Red River of the South, Red River, with a total length of , within the Choctaw Nation, Choctaw Indian Reservation in southeastern Oklahoma and in southwestern Arkansas in the United States. Via the Red, it is part of the drainage basin, watershed of the Mississippi River. Six large reservoirs impound the Little River and its tributaries. The drainage basin of the river totals , in Oklahoma and in Arkansas. The Little River and its upper tributaries are popular for recreational canoeing and kayaking. Course The highest sources of the Little River are at an elevation of more than in southwestern Le Flore County, Oklahoma in the Ouachita Mountains. It initially flows westward into Pushmataha County, Oklahoma, Pushmataha County, then south into McCurtain County, Oklahoma, McCurtain County where it turns to flow southeast, past Wright City, Oklahoma, Wright City and through the Little River National Wildlife Refuge and a portion of the O ...
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Mountain Fork
Mountain Fork, also known as the Mountain Fork of the Little River, is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 3, 2011 tributary of the Little River in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma in the United States. Via the Little and Red rivers, it is part of the watershed of the Mississippi River. Course The Mountain Fork rises in the Ouachita Mountains in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, and then flows southeastwardly into Polk County, Arkansas, then southwestwardly into McCurtain County, Oklahoma, where it turns southward for the remainder of its course. It joins the Little River in McCurtain County, southeast of Broken Bow. In its upper course, the river flows through a portion of the Ouachita National Forest. In McCurtain County, the river is dammed to form Broken Bow Lake. Nancy Branch is a tributary of the river. Discharge At Eagletown, the river has a mean annual discharge of . Recreation ...
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Ouachita Mountains
The Ouachita Mountains (), simply referred to as the Ouachitas, are a mountain range in western Arkansas and southeastern Oklahoma. They are formed by a thick succession of highly deformed Paleozoic strata constituting the Ouachita Fold and Thrust Belt, one of the important orogenic belts of North America. The Ouachitas continue in the subsurface to the northeast, where they make a poorly understood connection with the Appalachians and to the southwest, where they join with the Marathon uplift area of West Texas. Together with the Ozark Plateaus, the Ouachitas form the U.S. Interior Highlands. The highest natural point is Mount Magazine at . The Ouachita Mountains is a Level III ecoregion designated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The region has been subdivided into six Level IV ecoregions. Etymology Louis R. Harlan claimed that "Ouachita" is composed of the Choctaw words ''ouac'' for "buffalo" and ''chito'' for "large", together meaning "country of large buffa ...
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Choctaw Country
Choctaw Country is the Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation's official tourism designation for Southeastern Oklahoma. The name was previously Kiamichi Country until changed in honor of the Choctaw Nation headquartered there. The current definition of Choctaw Country includes ten counties, being Coal, Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, McCurtain, Pushmataha, Le Flore, Latimer, Haskell, and Pittsburg counties. The department created the term as one of six designated travel regions within the state. However, other definitions of Southeastern Oklahoma may include additional counties. The original name of Kiamichi was applied by French explorers who came to the area in the early 18th century. They discovered, among other things, a very large, noisy woodpecker that they called ''Kiamichi'', their word for "raucous bird." This name was also applied to the Kiamichi Mountains (Choctaw: ''Nʋnih Chaha Kiamitia''), a subset of the Ouachita Mountains. Due to an influx of southerners se ...
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Oklahoma Department Of Tourism And Recreation
The Oklahoma Department of Tourism and Recreation is a department of the government of Oklahoma within the Tourism and Branding Cabinet. The Department is responsible for regulating Oklahoma's tourism industry and for promoting Oklahoma as a tourist destination. It is the Department which established regional designations for the various parts of the state which are in common use today: Red Carpet Country (Northwest, being the Panhandle and North Central), Green Country (Northeast), Frontier Country (Central), Choctaw Country (Southeast), Chickasaw Country (South Central), and Great Plains Country (Southwest). The Department is under the direction of the Executive Director, who is appointed by the Governor. The Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Commission serves in an advisory board to the Executive Director and is made up of eight members of the public, along with the Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma serving as the ninth member and chair of the Commission. The Department of ...
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