Editing Pawhuska, Oklahoma (section)

==History==
The town, originally known as Deep Ford,<ref name = "EOHC-Osage">[http://www.okhistory.org/publications/enc/entry.php?entry=OS004 Jon D. May,  "Osage County", ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture''.] Retrieved September 25, 2011.</ref> was established in 1872 with the reservation for the [[Osage Nation]], part of [[Indian Territory]]. The Osage Indian Agency was located along [[Bird Creek]]. One of the three main bands of the tribe settled here. Traders followed, building stores during 1872 and 1873. Pawhuska's first newspaper, the ''Indian Herald'' (also known as ''Wah-Sha-She News.''), was founded in 1875 by George Edward Tinker, an Osage who became the father of [[Clarence L. Tinker]], highest-ranking Native American officer in the US Army.<ref name="TinkerAF">[http://www.tinker.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100629-060.pdf "Major General Clarence L. Tinker"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219222259/http://www.tinker.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-100629-060.pdf |date=2013-02-19 }}, Retrieved January 17, 2012.</ref> The first post office opened in 1876.<ref name = "EOHC-Pawhuska" />

The [[Midland Valley Railroad]] reached Pawhuska in September 1905. By the time of statehood in 1907, the town population was 2,407.<ref name = "EOHC-Pawhuska" />

The first [[Boy Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)|Boy Scout]] troop is claimed to have been organized in Pawhuska in May 1909 by John F. Mitchell, a missionary priest from England sent to St. Thomas Episcopal Church by the [[Church of England]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.osagecohistoricalmuseum.com/scouts.html |title=Home of the First Boy Scout Troop in America |access-date=2006-07-17 |archive-date=2006-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926221920/http://www.osagecohistoricalmuseum.com/scouts.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> On [[Independence Day (United States)|Independence day]] weekend 2009, the Pawhuska Boy Scout troop celebrated its [[centennial]] with a mini-[[Jamboree (Scouting)|jamboree]] attended by over 300 Scouts from across the United States.

During the Osage [[oil boom]] of the 1910s and 1920s, Pawhuska was the site of big-money public auctions of oil and gas leases under the so-called “[[Million Dollar Elm]]” next to the Osage Council House.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.aoghs.org/petroleum-pioneers/million-dollar-elm/ |title=Million Dollar Elm |publisher=American Oil and Gas Historical Society|access-date=September 3, 2020}}</ref> The population grew to 6,414 by 1920. The [[Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad]] extended its line from Owen, a community in [[Washington County, Oklahoma|Washington County]], to Pawhuska in 1923. As the oil boom declined and the [[Great Depression in the United States|Great Depression]] set in, the population declined. The steady decline has continued to the present.

[[Minor league baseball]] came to Pawhuska briefly in the 1920s in the form of two teams: the [[Pawhuska Huskers]], which operated from 1920 to 1921, and the [[Pawhuska Osages]], which operated for part of the 1922 season before folding.