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Mention the word Oklahoma to the average person from Britain and Howard Keel singing baritone against a grainy American backdrop would very possibly be high upon the list of watchwords used to describe the Sooner State. For the more historically minded, the former Native American land would throw up images of both national importance, the swarming despair of the Dust Bowl era and internal political division that had far reaching ramifications, which ever thought is mentioned, Oklahoma is a state that never quite springs to mind when thinking of a place to visit, nestled as it is a place firmly caught between East and West Coast sophistication and artistic endeavour.