# Settling Accounts:  The Grapple, by Harry Turtledove

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/settling-accounts-the-grapple-by-harry-turtledove/365707>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 23, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/settling-accounts-the-grapple-by-harry-turtledove/365707 "2006-07-23T15:35:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/settling-accounts-the-grapple-by-harry-turtledove/365707/41 "2006-09-01T14:12:59Z")

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> [@BMalion](#):
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What state, which Rogers and Hammerstein wrote a musical about, is the real life version of Sequoyah?

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**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/settling-accounts-the-grapple-by-harry-turtledove/365707/42 "2006-09-01T20:58:54Z")

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_Oklahoma!_

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**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/settling-accounts-the-grapple-by-harry-turtledove/365707/43 "2006-09-01T21:01:30Z")

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> [@Captain Amazing](#):
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> What state, which Rogers and Hammerstein wrote a musical about, is the real life version of Sequoyah?

:smack:

I never got that, thanks.

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**Author:** ![don\_Jaime](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b4bc9f/32.png) [@don\_Jaime](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_Jaime)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2006, 9:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/settling-accounts-the-grapple-by-harry-turtledove/365707/44 "2006-09-01T21:15:30Z")

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> [@BMalion](#):
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> I never got that, thanks.

It’s okay. You probably flipped past the map in the front with OK labeled “Sequoyah.” There was a movement at one time to make Indian Territory (the eastern half) the State of Sequoyah, but it was merged with Oklahoma Territory instead, and they were admitted together.

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