“The Butterfield Trail in Indian Territory: Time Travel on Wheels,” OutdoorX4, Issue 50.

Just published in the quarterly of the Oregon-California Trails Association, see my latest article on Butterfield’s Overland Mail in the Indian Territory.

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!

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 integrity as the only Black hospital still standing in Oklahoma. Read my article on the history of the institution and its impact on the surrounding area, as well as the efforts of community leaders to rehabilitate the site for future use.in the latest issue of The Chronicles of Oklahoma (Volume XCIX, No. One, Spring 2021):

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It’s available for purchase here:

Nice work by author and photographer Travis Monroe, photographer Jake Dragoo, and of course Bill Dragoo, and a few of my photos too, in “The Long Road Home,” featured in OutdoorX4, Issue 38: