Freedom, OK

Freedom is a town in Woods County, Oklahoma, United States. The 2020 census counted 174 residents. Freedom lies twenty-five miles west of Alva, on the banks of the Cimarron River. On September 13 and 14, 1878, the Battle of Turkey Springs was fought approximately ten miles northeast of present-day Freedom. The salt is sold for livestock and industrial use. Ezra Blackmon opened a salt factory and began mechanized production, in 1935, as Blackmon Salt Company. Freedom is host to the annual Freedom Open Rodeo and Old Cowhand Reunion, known as the "Biggest Open Rodeo in The West".

The rodeo was founded in 1938, with its accompanying Chuckwagon Feed starting a year later. The through line in Freedom is the way its history and present-day settings remain visible on the same map. Freedom makes the most sense through those concrete details, with its history still visible in the settings people use today. Freedom was the last known encounter between the United States Cavalry and American Indians in Oklahoma.