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Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road (open access)

Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road

In 2018 the National Park Service recommended that the Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road be designated a National Historic Trail. Sixty years earlier, OHS staff marked this important trade and transit route with historical markers. This article retraces the road, describing the landmarks as they appeared on the 1958 trek as well as their present conditions.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Dragoo, Susan Penn
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Notes and Documents, Spring 1967 (open access)

Notes and Documents, Spring 1967

Notes and Documents column including a document about recollections of writer Clarence Alva Powell of his life in Indian Territory in the towns of Ashland and Wilburton.
Date: Spring 1967
Creator: Powell, Clarence Alva
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History