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[Photograph 2012.201.B1205.0401]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "One of Oklahoma's premier basketball players figures he has sufficiently scratched his coaching itch. James Spivey, two-time All-American basketball player at Southeastern in Durant back in the 1950s, has now put up his basketball coaching whistle and has become superintendent of school's in the Bryan Co. town of Colbert, replacing the retiring C. F. Howard."
Date: August 8, 1976
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1277.0160]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Adrenalin Pumps just as fast for some basketball fans as it does for the players, as Colbert booster Maxine Teeples could testify after a heart-stopping battle between Colbert and Canton girls at the State Fair Arena in Oklahoma City Saturday."
Date: March 6, 1976
Creator: Argo, Jim
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B1172.0740]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Greeting visitors who cross the state line into Oklahoma these days is a "Happy Birthday America" greeting, which have been added to the welcome signs on major highways entering the state. This one is at the Oklahoma-Texas line south of Durant on U. S. 69 / 75."
Date: May 9, 1976
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Photograph 2012.201.B0997.0216]

Description: Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Street signs for Colbert are displayed by 4-H Club project chairman, Gail Cole, left, Mayor Hassell Owens, Becky Hannan and Debra Weger, right. The Signs were obtained for the city by 4-H club members"
Date: July 22, 1965
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

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
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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