The author, John Wesley Morris, quoted one long-time resident as saying: "Stores gone, post office gone, train gone, school gone, oil gone, boys and girls gone – only thing not gone is graveyard and it git bigger.

"[6] Located in an area of rolling plains and tallgrass prairie, a post office was established at Foraker on February 13, 1903.

The town began as a 160-acre tract platted by the U.S. Department of the Interior along the Midland Valley Railroad in 1905.

Foraker had the amenities associated with older communities: sidewalks, a public park, and plans for an electric and water system and a substantial school building.

[9] The Osage County oil boom declined during the Great Depression, and with it Foraker's fortunes.

A lonely and picturesque old cemetery in the prairie approximately one mile east of what remains of the town is the chief landmark.

[11] As a child the singer Patti Page (born Clara Ann Fowler) lived with her family for a time on Maple St. in Foraker.

[12] Rodeo champion and Oscar-winning actor Ben Johnson (The Last Picture Show) was born and raised on his family's ranch near Foraker.