- Buffalo Springs
Buffalo Springs On the Old Chisholm Trail, 1/3 mi. west. From this noted watering place came the name of "Bison," 1 mi. so., "Buffalo Springs" was the camp site of Pat Hennessey and his men just before the were massacred, 7 mi. so., July 4, 1874. Next day, a war band of Indians was stood off by ranchmen at the Springs. Crowds here made the Oklahoma "Run," April 22, 1889.
Garfield county #cattle #landrun #trail 
- Butterfield Overland Mail Rt.
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LeFlore county #mail #trail 
- California Road
First Crossed Here 1849. Near here on May 28, 1849,, was the camp of a large party of gold seekers en route to California with a military escort under the command of Captain R B Marcy. The California Road was used by travelers for over 50 years. East of here about 4 miles are traces of the Western Cattle Trail to Dodge City, Kansas.
Dewey county #cowboy #trail 
- California Trail
California Trail Crossed Here Caravans of gold seekers in the Rush for Califonia traveled this Trail in spring. 1849, under military escort commanded by Capt. R.B. Marchy. Route lay west from Ft. Smith, south side of Arkansas and Canadian rivers, across Oklahoma. Camp ground and spring, 3 mi. west, well know on this famous Trail.
McClain county #trail 
- Canute
Markers for the St. Francis Church, David Lee Walters, History of Canute, the Canute Centennial, and The Great Western Trail.(Full text and close-up pictures of the markers are located in "more information")
Beckham county #church #governor #grotto #town #trail 
- Chisholm Trail Boulder - Tuttle
1870 - 1931 This Boulder Marks The Chisholm Trail Site of Silver City trading post,first school,and pioneer burying ground, two miles North. Dedicated to Ranchmen,cowboys,early setters and their descendants. Sponsored by Chickasha Chapt. National society Daughters of the American Revolution.
Grady county #chisholm #cowboy #pioneer #ranchmen #trail 
- Chisholm Trail - Yukon
Chisholm Trail - Yukon Over this spot passed the vast herds of longhorned cattle from the ranges of Texas to the railroads in Kansas. It was in 1867 that the first herd came up this trail on the way to the nearest railroad loading yards in Abilene, Kansas. Jesse Chisholm, an Oklahoma part - Cherokee Indian trader, soon after the Civil War, laid out a trail for his freight wagons that reached approximately from the Arkansas River in Kansas to the north Canadian River in Oklahoma. In time the entire Trail from southern Texas ...
Canadian county #chisholm #cowboy #pioneer #ranchmen #trail 
- Chisholm Trail Marker - Duncan
Two miles east of this point ran the Chisholm Trail named for Jessie Chisholm, and Oklahoma part-Cherokee indian trader. Soon after close of Civil War, Chisholm laid out a trail with his freight wagons extending from the Arkansas river valley in Kansas to the North Canadian river valley in Oklahoma. When Texas drovers headed their long-horned cattle toward the nearest railroad at Abilene, Kansas in 1867, this trace was the only well defined part of the route. As a result the entire trail from south Texas to northeast Kansas ...
Stephens county #cowboy #trail 
- Chisholm Trail Marker - Marlow
Chisholm Trail
Stephens county #cowboy #trail 
- Cowboy Camp Springs
Cowboy Camp Springs This pond is the site of an important watering hole used by drovers as they passed through this area on the way to the railheads in Kansas. Created by the confluence of two natural springs, it has been used for hundreds of years by Indians, buffalo, and other wildlife. The pure, clean water made a perfect location for cowboy campsites. The cattle themselves were watered nearby on the North Canadian River just to the north. The present pond was built in the 1930's by the Work ...
Canadian county #chisholm #cowboy #spring #trail 
- Cowboy Shootout
Cowboy Shootout About 1.8 miles east of here, via the section line road, is the likely site of a shootout in 1876 between two trail drovers. As reminisced by C. F. Colcord, a drover of the era, two cowboys in the outfit just ahead of his had a dispute during breakfast. They were separated and sent to their positions with the herd. Both were pointers, or lead riders, each riding and opposite sides of the herd. Later, they were seen to stop and argue while the herd passed between them. As the last of the cattle passed, they both ...
Grady county #cowboy #trail 
- Crossing Ft. Supply - Ft. Reno Military Road
In 1870 a supply road was established between Ft. Supply and the Cheyenne-Arapaho agency in Darlington, O.T. The road (and telegraph line) was built as an extension of the Ft. Dodge (KS) - Ft. Supply trail and extended to Ft. Reno in 1875. In constant use by the army, indians and traders, this artery played a prominent part in the history of Oklahoma before the coming of the railroads.
Woodward county #military #trail 
- Dave Blue Trading Post
Dave Blue Trading Post Located 1 mil. S of here on the Chisholm Cattle Trail, also called Arbuckle Cattle Trail, Blue hired Cherokees and Creeks to kill wild buffalo in early 1870's and to deliver the hides to Atoke for shipment east.
Cleveland county #cattle #cowboy #trail 
- Doan's Crossing
It was at this location, where the Texas Cattle Trail crossed the Red River, that C.F. Doan maintained an extensive mercantile operation. Though the store was on the Texas side of the river, the crossing became known as Doan's Crossing. It was last used in 1895, but during its existence over 19,000,000 head of cattle crossed here on their way to markets in Kansas.
Tillman county #cattle #trail - Dodge City Trail
Over this famous Western Trail, 11,000,000 cattle and horses were driven from Texas through Indian Ter. to Kansas. First drive, 1874; the last, 1893, whith the opening of this country as part of the Cherokee Strip. The herds supplied shipping from Dodge City, besides thousands of head drive to rancers in the Northwest and Canada.
Dewey county #cowboy #trail - Elias Boudinot
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Cherokee county #trail - First Military Road
Constructed by Captain John Stuart, of the Seventh Infantry, in 1832, the road ran between Fort Smith, Arkansas and Fort Towson in the Choctaw Nation. The route was originally marked by Robert Bean and Jesse Chisholm and served to unite the new frontier posts that were established with the removal of the Five Civilized Tribes to present-day Oklahoma. *
LeFlore county #choctaw #military #trail - Fort Dodge-Camp Supply Trail
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Harper county #military #trail 
- Fort Nichols
7 mi S.W. Established in May 1865, by Kit Carson, hero of Valverde and Brig. Gen., New Mexico Volunteers, to guard Santa Fe Trail and furnish escorts for caravans engaged in Santa Fe trade. Santa Fe Trail crossed this highway here and was first traveled by William Beknell's expedition from Missouri in 1823. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1940
Cimarron county #fort #trail - Ft. Smith - Ft. Townson Military Road
Ft. Smith - Ft. Townson Military Road This road extended through the Choctaw Mation over 130 miles of rugged terrain and raging streams. It was blazed by Col. Robert Bean and constructed by Captain John Stuart and used to carry supplies and move troops and emigrants through the region. The route crossed the Winding Stair Mtn. at this point. Eastern Oklahoma Historical Society, Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1975.
LeFlore county #military #road #trail 
- Gift of John Kirkpatrick
Gift of John E. Kirkpatrick Chisholm Trail Marker erected on Land of John E. Kirkpatrick given to him by his grandmother, Mrs. Lewis Mortimer Spencer, on date of his birth, Feb. 13, 1908. His grandfather , Lewis M. Spencer, was one of Yukon Founders. Oklahoma Historical Society 1966
Canadian county #chisholm #landowner #trail 
- Great Western Trail
In 1874, the cattle ranchers of the San Antonio, Texas area began blazing a trail with their large herds of longhorn cattle through western Indian Territory to the railhead at Dodge City, Kansas and to markets beyond into Canada and the northwest territories of America. It's estimated that over 11,000,000 head of longhorns passed over this trail on which you now stand, the trail's wake is marked only by a long sequence of depressions worn into the land by the millions of hooves that traveled it, and instance of one of these depressions ...
Dewey county #cowboy #trail 
- Headquarters Mountain Hiking Trail and Butterfly Garden
Headquarters Mountain Hiking Trail and Butterfly GardenThe Town of Granite which to extend its appreciation to Gene and Mary Lou Hahn and family for the gift of the headquarters mountain hiking trail and butterfly garden dedicated May 15, 2008
Greer county #garden #park #trail 
- Jesse Chisholm
Jesse Chisholm Born in Tennessee in 1805 of Scottish and Cherokee descent, Jesse Chisholm came to Indian Territory in the 1820's for 40 years he operated trading posts near Asher, Purcell Watonga and Okla. City. Also a guide, freighter, interpreter, salt works owner and peacemaker. Few men in the territories were so well known by the Indian. Due to this part of his freighting route became know as the Chisholm trail. He died on March 4, 1868 after eating bear meat cooked in a copper kettle and was buried near Left Hand Spring ...
Blaine county #cowboy #trail 
- Jesse Chisholm Grave Site
Jesse Chisholm Born 1805 Died Mar. 4. 1868 No one left his home cold or hungry Jesse Chisholm Born in Tennessee in 1805 of Scottish and Cherokee descent, Jesse Chisholm came to Indian Territory in the 1820's for 40 years he operated trading posts near Asher, Purcell Watonga and Okla. City. Also a guide, freighter, interpreter, salt works owner and peacemaker. Few men in the territories were so well known by the Indian. Due to this part of his freighting route became know as the Chisholm trail. He died on March 4, 1868 ...
Blaine county #cowboy #trail 
- Jones - Plummer Trail
Jones - Plummer Trail In Early 1970s C.E. (Ed) Jones and Joe Plummer blazed historic trail which is an important part of Oklahoma Panhandle's rich heritage. These two pioneers established trading posts on Wolf Creek in central Ochiltree county Texas sout of Beaver. Supplies for post where first hauled from Dodge City, Cansas railhead by wagon over trail to Fort Suppy and then westward to site. Later became Beaver county buffalo hides major traid item for Jones and Plummer were first cargo over new route with bore ...
Beaver county #cattle #military #museum #trail 
- Lane Cabin / Birth-Place of Beaver
Birth-Place of Beaver Park. Old Jones & Plummer Trading Post. Original Sod House Est. 1880.
Beaver county #landmark #park #sod house #trading post #trail 
- Military Road Crossing
Here, between 1874 and 1890, supply wagons, a daily stage coach and the U. S. Mail moved over this earliest known trail from Dodge City, Kansas to Fort Elliott, Texas. The fort first known as Cantonment on Sweetwater" was established after the Kiowa, Comanche and Cheyenne attack on Adobe Walls in June of 1874.
Woodward county #military #trail - Old Military Road
Crossed here: Ft. Gibson (est. 1824) to Ft. Leavenworth. Two Cabin Creek battles in Civil War fought at old ford 5 mi.; S.W. Ketchum is east 1.5 mi., the first store, 1860, and a stage stand were at old Sulphur Springs camp ground near here, N.E. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission, 1954.*
Craig county #civil war #military #trail 
- Old Military Trail
To adventures in the west. The famous Dragoon Expedition, 1834, Col. Henry Dodge in command, passed near here on the way west to the Wichita village on north fork of Red River. Near here in 1852. Capt. R.B. Marcy, 5th Inf. Met his wagon train for his expedition west, in search of the source of Red River. East of here, 2 mi., was the Chilsholm Trail. Oklahoma historical society and state high way commission 1958
Stephens county #military #trail 
- P. P Ackley
Going up the Texas Chisholm Trail 1867 P.P. Ackley 1937 P. P. Ackley, served as a deputy trail brand inspector and was later a member of the Old Trail Drivers Association, spearheaded the trail marking movement.
Beckham county #cowboy #trail 
- Perryville
Originally the trading post of James Perry. By 1849 this was one of the most important early day towns. Here was the intersection of the Texas and California Roads, and many noted expeditions passed through along both of these routes... Colbert Institute, Methodist School for Chickasaws, Established here 1854. Battle of Perryville in Civil War fought here in July 1863.
Pittsburg county #civil war #trail 
- Rock Mary
Most prominent Oklahoma landmark seen on California Road by Capt. R. B. Marcy. First visited May 23, 1849, and U.S. flag raised on the peak by Lts. M. P. Harrison (brother of Pres. Benj. Harrison) and J.H. Simpson. Named in honor of 17 yr. Mary Conway, grand daughter of Arkansas Gov. Conway and cousin of President James Madison. Marker: Rock Mary May 23, 1840 This odd and unusual land feature was named on that date by Lieuts. J. H. Simpson and M. F. Harrison when they visited this site, planted a Flag on the crest and named the ...
Caddo county #landmark #trail 
- Santa Fe Trail
Surveyed by J.C. Brown 1826-27. Heaviest traffic during California Gold Rush 1849. Abandoned on completion of A.T. & S.F. Railroad in 1880
Cimarron county #nts #trail - Sante Fe Trail - NM/OK Border
Santa Fe Trail Cimarron Route 1822 - 1880 -- Marker by the High Plains Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution -- Oklahoma
Cimarron county #nts #trail - Texas Road (The Shawnee Trail)
Texas Road- The most Ancient and important trail through Oklahoma. Three Forks- At the head of navigation of the Verdigris River the oldest trading post in Oklahoma dating from 1812. Creek & Osage- Indian agencies on the east and west banks of the river below the falls of the Verdigris in buildings acquired from Col. A.P. Chouteau in 1828. The First Party- Of emigrating Creek Indians were landed here in February 1828 between here and Fort Gibson Sam Houston resided during his stay with the Cherokee Indians, 1829-1832. Irving ...
Wagoner county #trail 
- The American Flag - Rock Mary
The American Flag Rock Mary From this point on May 23, 1849 the Flag of the United States was unfurled by Lts.J. H. Simpson and M.P. Harrison who gave this Rock it name. By this act they established this as a famous landmark relied on by countless thousands of western emigrants. Oklahoma Historical Society, 1960
Caddo county #landmark #trail 
- The Duncan Store and The Fort Sill and Fort Arbuckle Road
The Duncan Store and the Ft. Sill - Ft. Arbuckle Road Visible Immediately to the east are prominent Trail ruts created by cattle herds and the Ft. Sill - Ft. Arbuckle supply road. Two miles east - southeast, beyond the crest of the hill visible across the valley, the cattle road intersected and joined the east - west Ft.Sill - Ft. Arbuckle supply and stage coach road to avoid the impenetrable cross - timber oak forests blocking a direct route to the north. Cattle drovers followed the established supply road for about seven miles ...
Stephens county #chisholm #military #road #store #supply #trail 
- The Great Western Cattle Trail
The Great Western Cattle Trail Circa 1876-1895 Began in southern Texas after Quanah Parker and the Comanches surrendered at Fort Sill in 1875. Due to the failing Post-Civil War economy in Texas. Ranchers developed a 1,000 mile trail to Dodge City, Ogallala and other northern markets to receive rewarding profits. With faith in God cowboys drove millions of Longhorns over the prairie that had been conserved by the Plains Indians in Indian Territory. The Comanches and other tribes became skilled as diplomats and offered the right ...
Jackson county #trail 
- The Great Western Cattle Trail Southwest Oklahoma
Quanah parker and the Comanches surrendered at Ft. Sill in 1875. Texas ranchers, beginning in 1876, created the 1000 mile trail from southern Texas to Dodge City, Ogallala, and other northern markets. In Indian Territory, plains Indians were skilled as diplomats offering right of passage for beef. the peak year head in about 100 herds crossed this site. Each herd required 10 men and each cowboy required about 7 horses. During the nineteen or twenty years of the trail's existence, over seven million longhorns crossed the prairie ...
Kiowa county #cattle #cowboy #great western trail #trail 
- The Mormon Battalion in the Oklahoma Panhandle
From September 23 through 27, 1846, the Mormon Battalion crossed the northwestern portion of the Oklahoma Panhandle. The little army's 500-plus volunteers, recruited for the Mexican War, were enlisted near Council Bluffs, Iowa, from among the first company of Mormon pioneers, who were then en-route to the Rocky Mountains. The Battalion's 2,000 mile journey from Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas, to San Diego, California, then the longest march by infantry in U.S. military history, traversed for a lengthy distance the Santa Fe Trail. Sixty miles ...
Cimarron county #mexican war #military #mormon #trail - Trahern's Station
Here was located a stage stand of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route, under acto fo congress, March 3, 1857. First mail state arrived here in September, 1958, enroute to San Francisco, Service continued until the outbreate of war between the state. Oklahoma Historical Societ, 1958
LeFlore county #mail #trail - Walker's Station
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LeFlore county #choctaw #mail #trail 
- Western Cattle Trail
Western Cattle Trail In 1875 the last free bands of Comanches and Kiowas were confined to the reservations at Fort Sill, allowing regular cattle drives over the Western Cattle Trail, which continued until about 1888. By the time the drives ended, millions of Longhorns had passed this way, through what is now Friendship, bound for Dodge City. This area was Greer County, Texas until 1896. when the Supreme Court determined it was a part of Oklahoma Territory. After it was opened for homesteading in 1897, settlers poured in, seeking ...
Jackson county #cowboy #trail - Western Cattle Trail / Yelton Store
This was the westernmost of the famous cattle trails that crossed present-day Oklahoma. From a ford across the Red River at Doan's Crossing, the route ran northward, passing a series of springs and resting places, to Sherman's Ranch on the Kansas border. Relatively free of timber, the trail provided an easy route to Kansas cattle towns across an area in which the Indians were eager to exchange pasturage for a few head of cattle **
Harper county #cattle #trail
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