![]() ![]() Oklahoma has plenty of large casinos-with hotels, restaurants, valet parking, and players who wear suits with loosened ties-but I liked the small, gritty places. No need to plan a vacation to Las Vegas anymore, not when you can stop at, say, the 7 Clans Deli Mart/Travel Plaza on Highway 77 just outside of town, a convenience store that has more than a hundred slot and video-poker machines inside. Thank God for tribal land, Oklahomans say. ![]() I remember reading a few years ago that Oklahoma was the nation’s second-largest gambling market, with nearly four billion dollars in revenues. To the west are Tonkawa East and, right off I-35, the newer, larger Tonkawa West Casino. To the south are 7 Clans Paradise Casino and Two Rivers Casino. To the southeast is Osage Casino, which was once a small, smoky trailer. Fifteen miles to the north, just before the Kansas state line, two massive casinos sprawl on Indian land. Within half an hour, I can drive to at least seven of them. There are more than a hundred casinos in Oklahoma, more than there are in Germany, more than in Canada, the UK, or in all of Central America. ![]() Martin Hyers and William Mebane, Vegas, 2008, color photograph. ![]()
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