Gray Horse, Oklahoma
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Gray Horse is an unincorporated community in Osage County, Oklahoma, United States. The post office was established May 5, 1890, and discontinued December 31, 1931. It was named for Gray Horse (Ko-wah-hos-tsa), an Osage medicine man.
Gray Horse and the surrounding towns of Fairfax and Pawhuska feature prominently in the Osage Murders, which took place in the early 1920s. The towns had grown exceedingly wealthy due to the discovery and drilling of nearby oil fields, and the resident Osage tribe members began to live lifestyles that befitted their newly acquired economic status. This time period and the circumstances and effects of the murders on the community of Gray Horse have been documented in David Grann's 2017 book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI.
David Grann of The New Yorker described it as, within the Osage Nation, "one of the [...] older settlements."{{cite web|last=Grann|first=David|url=https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/david-grann-the-osage-murders-and-the-birth-of-the-fbi|title=The Marked Woman|magazine=The New Yorker|date=2017-03-01|access-date=2024-01-21}}
Education
Gray Horse is zoned to Woodland Public Schools.{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st40_ok/schooldistrict_maps/c40113_osage/DC20SD_C40113.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: Osage County, OK|publisher=U.S. Census Bureau|access-date=2024-01-21}} - Compare to the location of Gray Horse.{{cite web|url=https://dc.library.okstate.edu/digital/collection/OKMaps/id/7331/rec/11|title=Osage County, Oklahoma|publisher=Oklahoma State University|access-date=2024-01-21}} - Compare the location of the "Grayhorse Indian Reserve" to the school district map.
The Works Progress Administration built a public school in Gray Horse,{{cite web|url=https://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry?entry=GR028|title=Gray Horse|work=Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture|publisher=Oklahoma Historical Society|access-date=2024-01-28}} which opened in 1939.{{cite web|last=Duty|first=Shannon Shaw|url=https://osagenews.org/osage-nation-takes-over-ownership-of-historic-grayhorse-school/|title=Osage Nation takes over ownership of historic Grayhorse School|newspaper=Osage News|date=2019-06-25|access-date=2024-01-28}} That school closed in 1963. In 2019 the Osage Nation acquired the school building.
Infrastructure
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External links
{{Osage County, Oklahoma}}
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Category:Unincorporated communities in Osage County, Oklahoma
Category:Unincorporated communities in Oklahoma
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