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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 191 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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MCALESTER , a See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city and the See also:

COUNTY (through Norm. Fr. comae, cf. O. Fr. cunte, conk', Mod. Fr. comae, from Lat. comitatus, cf. Ital. comitato, Prov. comtat; see COUNT)

county-seat of See also:

Pittsburg county, See also:

OKLAHOMA (a Choctaw Indian word meaning " red people ")

Oklahoma, about 110 m. E.S.E. of See also:

Guthrie. Pop. (19oo), 3479; (1907) 8144 (1681 negroes and 105 See also:

INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN

Indians); (1910) 12,954. McAlester is served by the See also:

Chicago, See also:

Rock See also:

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

Island & Pacific and the See also:

MISSOURI

Missouri, See also:

KANSAS (known as the Sunflower State ")

Kansas & See also:

TEXAS

Texas See also:

RAILWAYS

railways and is an important railway junction; it is connected with the neighbouring See also:

MINING

mining See also:

DISTRICT

district by an electric See also:

LINE

line. There are undeveloped See also:

IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron deposits and See also:

rich See also:

COAL

coal-mines in the surrounding See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country, and See also:

coke-making is the See also:

PRINCIPAL

principal manufacturing See also:

INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry of the city. There is a See also:

FINE

fine Scottish Rite Masons' See also:

CONSISTORY (Lat. consistorium, literally, a standing place, hence meeting place, waiting or audience chamber)

consistory and See also:

temple in McAlester. The city owns its waterworks. The vicinity was first settled in 1885. The city of See also:

South McAlester was incorporated'in 1899, and in 1906 it annexed the See also:

TOWN

town of McAlester and adopted its name.

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