Editing Winchester, Oklahoma (section)

==In the news==
William D. Crews on behalf of the Green Country Racing Association applied to the Oklahoma Horse Racing Commission to build a $120 million pari-mutuel horse racetrack in the town, to be called Winchester Park, on December 16, 1983.<ref>http://newsok.com/article/2050739 Mike Hammer, “Winchester Park Application Filed for Horse Track Near Tulsa,”   December 17, 1983,  NewsOK (The Oklahoman) website. Accessed August 24, 2017.</ref>  However, that application was turned down twice, once in 1984 based on insufficient financing and unrealistic attendance and wagering projections, and finally in 1985 as incomplete.<ref>http://newsok.com/article/2124494 Aleta Walther & Nolan Clay, “Plan to Build Southwest Oklahoma City Racetrack Scrapped,”  October 15, 1985, NewsOK (The Oklahoman) website. Accessed August 24, 2017.</ref>

Winchester again made the news in March 1989 when the Institute for the Study of American Wars (ISAW), a Delaware-based nonprofit organization, chose Winchester over competing sites in Oklahoma, Arizona, Pennsylvania and New Mexico<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=44049|title="Institute Officially Rejects State, Picks Arizona for War Museum", June 29, 1989|newspaper=[[The Tulsa World]]|access-date=July 24, 2012}}</ref> for a proposed $150 million war museum complex.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/W/WI026.html|title=Winchester, taken from Oklahoma Historical Society's Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History & Culture|access-date=July 24, 2012}}</ref>  However, the selection was withdrawn in April after a disagreement regarding donation of the land.  ISAW claimed the State of Oklahoma could not or would not follow through on an earlier pledge of immediate donation in fee of 300 acres of land, and was instead offering only a 200-year lease of the land and/or was demanding proof that ISAW had the funding to build the museum prior to transfer of the land.<ref>{{cite news|url= http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?no=subj&articleid=46388|title=" Conflicting Offers Led to Loss of War Site, Official Says", July 7, 1989|newspaper=[[The Tulsa World]]|access-date=July 24, 2012}}</ref>  ISAW later admitted to having raised only $65,000.<ref name="deseret">{{cite news|url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/55575/WAR-MUSEUM-WILL-BE-BUILT-IN-ARIZONA.html?pg=all|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012015429/http://www.deseretnews.com/article/55575/WAR-MUSEUM-WILL-BE-BUILT-IN-ARIZONA.html?pg=all|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 12, 2013|title="War Museum to be Built in Arizona", July 16, 1989|newspaper=[[The Deseret News]]|access-date=July 24, 2012}}</ref> ISAW then selected the Phoenix area<ref name="deseret"/> and on July 17, 1989, announced the exact site as a donated 300 acres of a 7,500-acre cotton farm between Phoenix and Tucson once owned by movie star [[John Wayne]], known as John Wayne's Red River Ranch, in [[Casa Grande]], Arizona.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://fiji4.ccs.neu.edu/~zerg/lemurcgi/lemur.cgi?d=0&i=46194&q=star|title="Red River Ranch Chosen as Site of War Museum", July 17, 1989|publisher=[[The Associated Press]]|access-date=July 24, 2012}}</ref>  In the end, the museum was never built in any location, and ISAW's entity status was voided effective March 1, 1998, by the [[Delaware Secretary of State]].<ref>Entity Details report on the Institute for the Study of American Wars (ISAW), File Number 2038270, from the Delaware Secretary of State, accessed July 24, 2012.</ref>