Martin Scorsese's first Western mishandles its story of colonial exploitation, while Pablo Larraín's darkly humorous, black-and-white satire delivers Pinochet as a vampire For a boring state, Oklahoma has a pretty bloody history. The Trail of Tears. The Tulsa race massacre of 1921. The 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, arguably the first manifestation of the far-right discontent that's currently transforming America. In 1859, oil was discovered near Salina – by accident, in a well that had been drilled for salt – and by 1907, before the then Oklahoma Territory even became a state, it was producing more crude than anywhere else in the United States.

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