“Poplar was a great place to grow up in”, says Azure, who is chairman of the Fort Peck Assiniboine and Sioux tribes.
In its heyday, the latest models to roll off the assembly in Detroit filled the showrooms of local car dealerships. There was even a John Deere tractor franchise within city limits. Shop windows glittered with the latest goods.
Most of important of all, Poplar, despite its diminutive stature in comparison to Dallas and Houston, was known as The Oil City.
