C.P. "Doc" Wickmiller: Boomer with a "Hatful of Pills"
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Article illustrates the life and career of W. C. "Doc" Wickmiller, a druggist who joined David L. Payne's "boomer" party and settled in Kingfisher, Oklahoma. Genevieve Moss describes the growth of his drugstore from a tent to the first two-story building in town and a mini-museum that showcased all the artifacts he had collected on the frontier.
Date:
Summer 1985
Creator:
Moss, Genevieve
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Oklahoma Historical Society