Article: Gallery Catalyst for Colony's Renaissance

COLONY _ You have to drive to Colony in western Oklahoma on purpose to get there. You will find it at the end of State Hwy. 54B, a spur off State Hwy. 54 south of Weatherford.

It's sort of an oasis nestled amid the rolling short grass prairie of Washita County. With numerous trees in the valley of Cobb Creek, the town stands out from surrounding barren hills. A few hundred people live peacefully where John Seger started a colony with 25 Arapaho Native Americans in 1886.

In this unlikely place, Yvonne Kauger, now an Oklahoma Supreme Court justice, started the Gallery of the Plains Indians during 1981 to display the art of Oklahoma Indians. That small gallery in her home town was the ...

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