Word: ponca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ponca City, Okla...
...rain spoiled a rodeo at Miller's 101 Ranch in Ponca City, Okla. Turtles came out after the rain and someone had the idea of racing them instead of horses. Last week 10,000 entries arrived in poultry cars to race in the sixth annual terrapin derby at Ponca City. Their owners chalked identifying numbers on their diamond-panelled backs and put them under a big canvas hoop in the middle of a circle. Up went the hoop as the crowd shouted. Many turtles lay still, inert or stupid. Others began to move at frenzied speed but grew discouraged...
...know the pioneer woman in his own mother. . . . It was those women who carried the refinement, the moral character and spiritual force into the West." So over the radio spoke President Hoover for the unveiling of a large statue of the Pioneer Woman of the West at Ponca City, Okla...