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Durant

city, Oklahoma, United States
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Durant, city, seat (1907) of Bryan county, southern Oklahoma, U.S., located in the Red River valley a few miles north of the Texas border. Settled about 1870 and named for a well-known Choctaw family, the city grew steadily after the arrival of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in 1872. Durant developed as a service centre for a diversified farming area, and in 1909 Southeastern State Normal (teacher-training) School (now Southeastern Oklahoma State University) was established there. Its...

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