Map of Averell’s Ride in Indian Territory by Muriel H. Wright from “Lieutenant Averell’s Ride at the Outbreak of the Civil War,” Chronicles of Oklahoma, Spring 1961. Courtesy Oklahoma Historical Society. Escape! The lone horseman picks his way along faint forest paths, never holding a straight line for long. Only his butternut trousers catch the afternoon lightContinue reading “The Long and Perilous Ride of Lieutenant Averell”
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Did the Butterfield Stages Use the Iron Bridge Over the Poteau?
In 1857-58, while John Butterfield and his associates were laying out a cross-country stagecoach route and setting up relay stations to support the Overland Mail’s 24-day traverse from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Coast, another transportation pioneer was surveying for a national wagon road. Lieutenant Edward F. Beale’s route went directly west along theContinue reading “Did the Butterfield Stages Use the Iron Bridge Over the Poteau?”
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