Sounds like a great opportunity for a historical novel to drive more tourism to Oklahoma. I really love eastern Oklahoma and wish I owned a piece of it. One co

Sounds like a great opportunity for a historical novel to drive more tourism to Oklahoma. I really love eastern Oklahoma and wish I owned a piece of it. One could start with the story from the Great Lakes about the possible Viking landing that ended with them retreating back to Norway after a battle with Native Americans cost them several members of their band. (Kensington Runestone story). All you have to do is leave one guy behind who falls in with a friendlier group of Native Americans and spends the rest of his life wandering the trade routes with that group until he ends up in Oklahoma and stakes a claim to that valley. Helps to explain blondes among the Mandan tribes too if you wanted to take it that far. Maybe someone has already written this tale.