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Published: October 26, 2008
Thunder makes OKC Boomtown yet again
By Berry Tramel
"Never before in the history of the West has so large a number of people been concentrated in one place in so short a time.” Harper’s Weekly, May 18, 1889

Rome wasn’t built in a day, William Willard Howard wrote 118 years ago, but Guthrie was. And Oklahoma City was.

If there’s one thing we know in Oklahoma , it’s Boomtowns.

How a patch of land can go from dusty pr...

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