Pawhuska — with about 3500 residents — does not have the grime, nor glamour of high- power oil towns such as Houston.
However, the city is beginning to take on new relevance due to the unconventional resource play known as the oil-prone Mississippi Lime.
Pawhuska — which is also the capital of the Osage Indian tribe — once played a critical role in US economic history when the great oil clans such as the Gettys pumped oil from the Osage lands last century.
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