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OKLAHOMA CITY was created in a
matter of hours on April 22, 1889, after a single gunshot signaled
the opening of the land to white settlement. What was barren prairie
at dawn was by nightfall a city of ten thousand. In 1911 the capital
was moved here from nearby Guthrie, and in 1928 oil was discovered.
Sitting on one of the nation's largest oilfields, the city was
brought up short by the slump in the 1980s, but it remains the
largest stocker and feeder cattle market in the world. The economy
came alive again in the 1990s, aided by tourism development and
an inflated sales tax that funded redevelopment in run-down neighborhoods.
However, the devastating bombing
of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building on April 19, 1995, which
killed 168 people, nineteen of them children, literally tore the
heart out of the city; the massive community rescue effort has
since helped Oklahoma City regain some of its self-confidence,
though it will be a while before the city is fully healed. In
June 2001, ex-military recluse Timothy McVeigh was executed for
the crime; his accomplice, Terry Nichols, is serving a lifetime
sentence in jail for his part. A permanent landscaped memorial
has been constructed at the former site of the Murrah building,
while the Journal Record Building next door has been turned into
the Museum and Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
