Here’s the first edition of the quarterly newsletter for the Oklahoma Chapter of the Butterfield National Historic Trail Association. Contents include news about the Edwards Store, a trail guide for a segment of the Butterfield Trail at Lake Atoka, and a photographic retrospective on Nail’s Crossing. Join the National and Oklahoma BNHTA for early accessContinue reading “Newsletter -Oklahoma Chapter Butterfield National Historic Trail Association”
Author Archives: susandragoo
Finding the Butterfield – Now Available!
Now available on Amazon, the culmination of eight years of research and exploration on the Butterfield trail through Oklahoma, Finding the Butterfield! Finding the Butterfield: A Journey Through Time in Indian Territory takes the reader through the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, both in the late 1850s as a passenger on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoachContinue reading “Finding the Butterfield – Now Available!”
Grand Canyon Hiking and Backpacking Logistics
New article on the TrailGroove blog! https://www.trailgroove.com/blogs/entry/268-grand-canyon-hiking-and-backpacking-logistics/
Beale’s Wagon Bridge Artifact Uncovered
Just published in the Chronicles of Oklahoma in their “Notes and Documents” section, a short piece on an important artifact associated with one of Beale’s 1859 wagon bridges in eastern Oklahoma. Read more below!
New Butterfield article in OutdoorX4
“The Butterfield Trail in Indian Territory: Time Travel on Wheels,” OutdoorX4, Issue 50.
Butterfield’s Overland Mail in the Indian Territory
Just published in the quarterly of the Oregon-California Trails Association, see my latest article on Butterfield’s Overland Mail in the Indian Territory.
Death on the Butterfield
My new article published in Desert Tracks, the journal of the Southern Trails chapter of the Oregon-California Trails Association, tells a tale of intrigue at a remote relay station on the Butterfield Overland Mail in the Choctaw Nation. Read it here!
The Butterfield Overland Mail in Oklahoma
I’ve recently compiled a number of resources on the Butterfield Overland Mail in Oklahoma into one page on my web site. Find it here: https://susandragoo.com/butterfield-oklahoma/
The Illusion of Wisdom: Hiking the Grand Canyon
The latest issue of TrailGroove magazine is out, and with it my photo on the cover and the story of my most recent backpacking trip into the Grand Canyon. See it here (beginning on page 17): https://www.trailgroove.com/issue54.html
Preserving the Okmulgee Colored Hospital
In the early twentieth century segregation touched every facet of life, including health care. Okmulgee’s African American community came together in the 1920s to build a hospital providing care to many who could not afford it. With the advent of integration the Okmulgee Colored Hospital closed its doors, but it has retained its historic integrityContinue reading “Preserving the Okmulgee Colored Hospital”
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