McAlester could be a town in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, us. The population was seventeen,783 at the 2000 census. It’s the county courthouse of Pittsburg County. It’s presently the biggest town within the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, followed by historiographer. The city gets its name from J.J. McAlester, UN agency later became elected official of Oklahoma and was immortalized as a personality within the novel True Grit, that was then created into feature films in 1969 and 2010. Town is that the home of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, web site of associate “inside the walls” jail rodeo from that ESPN’s SportsCenter once broadcast. Typically Oklahomans consult with the prison merely as “Big Mac” or “McAlester,” and also the city is documented therein manner within the gap pages of The Grapes of Wrath once Tom Joad is discharged from there. The jail was additionally the location of a 1973 riot that lasted for days and is mostly considered one amongst the worst in yank history.
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