Oklahoma Musicians

Washita County

Musical history, people, ensembles, photographs, and source material from the Oklahoma Musicians Library.

The musical history of Washita County.

Washita County's strongest currently accessible band evidence centers on Cordell and the county's school systems. The Cordell Beacon uses the phrase “Pride of Cordell” for the local marching-band tradition, and Cordell Public Schools identifies a band director in a later institutional record. Cordell High School yearbooks are available as a research lead. Gateway preserves the *Washita County Enterprise* from Colony and other regional records, creating a path toward early school, parade, civic, and veterans-band evidence.

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Read the full account, chronology, named ensembles and people, source links, and research notes. These library reports reflect their original research passes; related records below may add later evidence.

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4 linked records. Connections follow county names and communities documented in the sources; they do not establish a birthplace, exact historical boundary, or continuous residence.

Photographs and visual sources.

Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Shepard Air Force Band."
[Photograph 2012.201.B0240.0482]Photograph taken for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Shepard Air Force Band."Oklahoma Historical Society / The Gateway to Oklahoma History · Original source