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Marking the Butterfield: Retracing the Indian Territory Segment of the 1858-61 Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road

Description: In 2018 the National Park Service recommended that the Butterfield Overland Mail Stagecoach Road be designated a National Historic Trail. Sixty years earlier, OHS staff marked this important trade and transit route with historical markers. This article retraces the road, describing the landmarks as they appeared on the 1958 trek as well as their present conditions.
Date: Spring 2019
Creator: Dragoo, Susan Penn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Ezee Flow Spreader

Description: Photograph of an Ezee Flow Spreader seeding attachment developed and designed by Lee Carleton, WUC, Talihina, OK, and Ernest Hardesty, Engineer Specialist, Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: Pray, H. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Field of Sericea Lespedeza

Description: Photograph of a field of Sericea Lespedeza used as a soil builder on soil bank land. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Sericea Lespedeza. Being used as soil builder on Soil Bank Land. James was not ready to go to pasture and land was still suitable for cultivation as mapped by SCS Soils technicians. After a period of years this land will be returned to production of grain and fiber crops or maintained as Sericea meadow for Hickman's cow herd."
Date: July 16, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hereford Cattle Grazing on Fescue and Ladino Clover Pasture

Description: Photograph of a herd of Hereford cows and calves grazing on fescue and ladino clover pasture on Addison's land. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Hereford cattle grazing fescue and ladino clover. Mr. Addison regularly consults with SCS technicians on land treatment needs on his pasture and woodland."
Date: September 20, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Hereford Cow and Calf Grazing on Fescue and Ladino Clover Pasture

Description: Photograph of a Hereford cow and calf grazing on fescue and ladino clover pasture on Addison's land. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Hereford cattle grazing fescue and ladino clover. Mr. Addison regularly consults with SCS technicians on land treatment needs on his pasture and woodland."
Date: September 20, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Construction of Lateral No. 3 One Mile North of Peno

Description: Photograph of two UNIDENTIFED workers constructing Lateral Number 3 one mile north of Peno, Oklahoma. A third UNIDENTIFED worker is working on another lateral in the right background. The back of the photograph proclaims, "Looking up Lateral No. 3 now under construction. Ditch will drain field drain No. 7 and 9."
Date: March 27, 1962
Creator: Sturgeon, Fines
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Ezee Flow Spreader

Description: Photograph of an Ezee Flow Spreader seeding attachment developed and designed by Lee Carleton, WUC, Talihina, OK, and Ernest Hardesty, Engineer Specialist, Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: Pray, H. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Ezee Flow Spreader

Description: Photograph of an Ezee Flow Spreader seeding attachment developed and designed by Lee Carleton, WUC, Talihina, OK, and Ernest Hardesty, Engineer Specialist, Oklahoma City, OK.
Date: unknown
Creator: Pray, H. L.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Heavener, 1909

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Heavener in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: July 1909
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Heavener, 1916

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Heavener in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: September 1916
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Heavener, 1916

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Heavener in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: September 1916
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Talihina, 1916

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Talihina in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: March 1916
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Bokoshe, 1909

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Bokoshe in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: May 1909
Creator: Oklahoma Inspection Bureau
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Bokoshe (2), 1909

Description: Insurance map sheet showing an area of Bokoshe in Le Flore County, Oklahoma, including geographic features, buildings, and details related to risk assessment for fire insurance.
Date: May 1909
Creator: Oklahoma Inspection Bureau
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Unfinished Choctaw Justice: The Murder of Charles Wilson and the Execution of Jackson Crow

Description: Article relates the events surrounding the arrest, trial, and acquittal of Charles Wilson's political rival, Robert Benton, in Choctaw court after Wilson was murdered in August 1884. Jackson Crow, a non-Choctaw also accused of the crime, was convicted in federal court and executed in 1888.
Date: Autumn 2008
Creator: Mihesuah, Devon A.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Exterior of St. Barnabas Episcopal Church

Description: Stone façade on metal quonset hut. Single front door, cross on right front, ladder on side of hut. Plans were being made to reestablish a mission in Poteau previous to 1959 but was not officially organized until 1959. There had been a mission in Poteau in 1914 but it was closed and sold during the Depression.
Date: 1959
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

Exterior of Oak Lodge St. John's Episcopal Church

Description: Wood structure, double front doors with arched window above, arched windows on either side of door and on side of building. Rectangular shaped bell tower with cross. Written on back of original "The only church of any comm--- in Oak Lodge; and the only bu--- of our church in LeFlore Cou--- which is 65 miles long, and averages 30 miles wide; ___ covering nearly 2000 sq. m--" Founded 1903, now closed.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma

Shrubs

Description: Photograph of the Arkansas River bottom cotton stalk closeup. More than 100 boles made on this stalk. Crop rotation, soil building crops and fertilizer tell the story. mGood management by the farm boss pays on cotton as well as grass. OK-1482-4.
Date: October 16, 1961
Creator: Ball, Lemuel
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Water Conservation; Water Erosion; Flooding and Prevention

Description: Photograph of a residential areas were hard hit by flood waters of Mountain Creek. Water stood 8 feet deep around these houses. Land treatment and structural measures to be installed on Caston and Mountain Creek to prevent flooding of agricultural land will help the city residents too. OK-1341-3.
Date: May 22, 1961
Creator: McCollum, W. C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of the baling sericea lespedeza on the Andrew J. Costner farm, 3 miles NW of Heavener, OK. Mr. Costner is a supervisor of the LeFlore County Soil Conservation District. Charles Nobles, custom hay baler, and Roy Erwin, Work Unit Conservationist of the Soil Conservation Service, checking the quality of the sericea lespedeza hay. Twenty acres of sericea lespedeza meadow produced 509 bales of top quality hay. OK-10-873-B.
Date: July 15, 1954
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society

Grass, Legume and Forb Cultivation

Description: Photograph of Lee R. Carlton, work Unit Conservationist [WUC], Talihina, examining a field of lovegrass (erogratis curvula) and Sericea lespedeza. The mixture was planted on April 19, 1955 and fertilized with 100 pounds of 10-20-10 and 200 pounds of 0-20-0 fertilizers. Mowed on June 10, 1955 at 15 bales per acre. Potato Hill, 6 d, drouthy soil. This is an introductory planting of weeping lovegrass in this area. It looks promising. OK-72-10.
Date: July 7, 1955
Creator: Gamble, M. D.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Oklahoma Conservation Historical Society
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