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Frank Vlasak And The Beginnings Of Prague, Oklahoma Analysis

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Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma The article entitled "Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma", explains how Frank Vlasak evolves to a very powerful leader in the town that is Prague, Oklahoma, while all at the same time, Vlasak never loses his self and personality or his authority within his own cultural community, that is, a Czech immigrant from Bohemia . Frank Vlasak had much ascendancy and advantage in his culture group and he never abandoned himself from the non-Czech commonality. The thesis of “Frank Vlasak and the Beginnings of Prague, Oklahoma” By Viles Slive is explaining exactly how Vlasak led the Prague Czechs in rapid adaptations with the preponderance population of non-Czech, native-born whites proved beneficial to both parties. Slive goes into more details about exactly how Frank Vlasak accomplished this, and, ultimately, became one of the most important commoners of the new Oklahoma town while maintaining his personal and true identity of a Czech and his effective position within his own ethnic group. First off, Slive states that when the gun sounded for the start of the land run on September 22nd, 1891, Czechs who …show more content…

Smith, Arkansas through Indian Territory and travels into Oklahoma Territory to take part in the largely expanding towns of central Oklahoma, most importantly, the Guthrie and Oklahoma City area. Anton Simek and Vencl Kozak, two Bohemian immigrants, who had recently both purchased the domicile of the elderly woman Eva Barta agreed to sell part of her property to the railroad company. Josephine Barta decided to name the town “Praha” because she had originally grown up in the town of Praha, Bohemia. After hearing of Josephine’s decision, Frank Vlasak decided to visit his cohort settler and persuaded Josephine to Americanize the name to

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