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McAlester

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McAlester

City and seat of Pittsburg County, southeastern Oklahoma; population (2000) 17,800. Lying 120 km/75 mi south-southeast of Tulsa, it was formerly the capital of the Choctaw Nation.

The settlement developed from a trading post run by the merchant James McAlester at the crossroads of the westbound California Trail and the Texas Road, which ran north–south. It became a mining town with the discovery of coal in the 1870s, and is now a marketing and manufacturing centre handling the agricultural and mineral (coal, oil, and natural gas) products of the region. Aerospace and marine industries are prominent in the local economy. The state penitentiary is sited here, and a large US Army munitions plant is situated to the southwest, near Savanna. Eufaula Lake lies north and east of the city.



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