As Oklahoma mining town fades, last holdouts give up
31 July 2009
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Two years ago, Orval “Hoppy” Ray vowed it would take someone meaner than him to make him leave the town where he was born.But now the crusty, 84-year-old former miner is moving out, leaving behind a blighted, ghostly landscape, its soil, water and air poisoned by generations of lead-ore extraction that produced bullets for both world wars.
After two heart attacks and a tornado that badly damaged his house, Ray lost whatever fight he had left and decided to accept a government buyout, as nearly all his neighbors in Picher have already done.
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