For nearly half a century, the Frisco Railroad was the engine that powered Sapulpa.
It was the city’s largest employer, the reason many businesses existed, and the foundation upon which the modern community was built. So when the railroad’s division headquarters ultimately moved to Tulsa in what local historian Kirby Davis calls “The Great Divorce of 1928,” Sapulpa found itself searching for a new identity.
According to Davis, that identity arrived just in time—and it came on four wheels…