Chronicles of Cleveland

Cleveland first staggers onto the Oklahoma map as an an oil town, but before that it was a whiskey town. Established by the Jordan Valley Town Company on 20 September 1893, it became one of the liveliest whiskey towns in Pawnee County, but once oil was discovered nearby in 1904, the town's population exploded tenfold. During the early years of the resulting scramble and gamble, as many as eleven saloons were hastily erected along Broadway, the town's main street. Four boasted attached gambling rooms while one brazen saloon owner offered "female boarding" at the corner of Broadway and Cherokee Streets. He was making no secret of what was common knowledge anyway. 

Cleveland sometime after the oil boom of 1904

Soon to be available in print as WHISKEY TOWNS OF OKLAHOMA at Amazon.com under my

name as author. Wayne Pounds