Oklahoma Country Fall 2016

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A longtime of

Justice stands in the middle of a herd of black Angus cattle only a few miles from his home in Chickasha, Oklahoma.

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griculture looms large in the Oklahoma state Capitol in the form of a mural above the state house chambers on the fifth floor of the building’s soaring rotunda. A cowboy herding calves upon a galloping horse, a pioneer woman toiling in territorial days and a tractor plowing straight furrows all depict the many contributions agriculture has made to the state for generations. While Oklahoma agriculture hangs over the capitol rotunda in the form of artist Frank Dodd’s mural, its significance is easily moved to the back burner once policymaking focuses in on individual state issues with laser-like precision. As Oklahoma’s


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