(Image above is Brazil Creek near the Council House site) How slowly the scales fall from my eyes as I try to see into the past, the obscurity of the obvious sometimes clearing and other times going completely dark as I seek the truth in this landscape aged 200 years. Both extremes, along with the continuingContinue reading “Trahern’s Station”
Category Archives: Oklahoma History
Wade in the Water
Artist Deborah Kaspari and I drove and hiked all over Oklahoma doing research for our latest story for Oklahoma Today, “Wade in the Water.” Read it here: WadeintheWaterND17 And here’s a fun blog post about the origins of the story, “No Trail, No Problem:: https://susandragoo.com/2015/07/02/no-trail-no-problem/ And, a couple of related posts: https://susandragoo.com/2016/12/09/kiamichi-country/ https://susandragoo.com/2015/09/08/canadian-sunset/
Those Big Metal Pyramids
I read recently that those big metal pyramids (the Producers Cooperative Oil Mill, which processed cotton and oil seed) south of downtown Oklahoma City are going to be torn down soon. I got my information from “The Lost Ogle,” so I might need to be cautious about taking it seriously. Regardless, it seemed as ifContinue reading “Those Big Metal Pyramids”
West of Fort Smith
Oklahomans of the 21st Century, if they think about it at all, might like to imagine a location within the state’s borders as its birthplace: perhaps the Three Forks region near Muskogee, where fur traders headquartered in the early 1800s, or Purcell, the southern border of the April 1889 land run. Or there’s Guthrie, theContinue reading “West of Fort Smith”
Legends of the Canyons
Congratulations to Art Peters, curator of the Hinton Historical Museum, on publication of his second book, “Legends of the Canyons, A Collection of Legends, Stories and History of the Canyons in North Caddo County.” Bill and I hiked with Art in one of these beautiful canyons last winter and one of my photos from thatContinue reading “Legends of the Canyons”
More from the Butterfield
The second day of our trip on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route through Oklahoma yielded some treasures. See Retracing the Butterfield Overland Mail Route for photos from the first day.
Retracing the Butterfield Overland Mail Route
Continuing our exploration of the route of the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach route through Oklahoma (begun on a short trip last year about this time). The Butterfield stage ran from 1858 to 1861 and 192 miles of its route traversed what is present-day southeastern Oklahoma. Today we started in Spiro, Oklahoma and made it toContinue reading “Retracing the Butterfield Overland Mail Route”
The Obelisk Tour
In central Oklahoma, the weather between Christmas and New Year’s was sunny and warm and I was ready for a road trip, but I didn’t have time to get too far afield. Where could I go within an hour or so’s drive of home? I like themed travel — burning gas “for a reason” makesContinue reading “The Obelisk Tour”
Okmulgee Lake Rising: A Pilgrimage
Above: Julie Monigold Roberds’ photo of the Lake Okmulgee Spillway The sun, low in the November sky, illuminates the yellow leaves of an overhanging tree; I duck beneath it, hopping from boulder to boulder on the shore of Lake Okmulgee. The water sparkles with late afternoon reflections but I’m attracted more by the huge limestoneContinue reading “Okmulgee Lake Rising: A Pilgrimage”
The “Natural Mounds” of Caddo County
West of Oklahoma City — way out past Hinton and nearly to Hydro — the casual observer driving along Interstate 40 might catch out of the corner of his eye some mounds to the south upon the prairie. They’re easy to miss, since such physical features are unexpected amid the flatness, and one’s eyes areContinue reading “The “Natural Mounds” of Caddo County”
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