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The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago

Description: Article discusses the creation of the Butterfield Overland Mail Route and its development. Muriel H. Wright explores how mail was transported by railroad and stagecoaches across the route, and the events that impacted the route's success.
Date: Spring 1957
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Winter 1958-59

Description: Notes and Documents column including documents about a new brochure published by the Oklahoma Historical Society, historical notes about events, individuals, and sites, the Butterfield Overland Mail centennial, and notes on the boundary disputes between Texas and Oklahoma.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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

A Survey of Oklahoma Museums 1893-1957

Description: Article provides a survey of Oklahoma museums and attests to their importance. S. F. de Borhegyi first provides context to the creation of these museums and lists the statistics of their distribution, type, and attendance, then goes into further detail to describe the museums and their collections by city.
Date: Summer 1957
Creator: de Borhegyi, Stephen F.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

New Officers of the Historical Society

Description: Article provides biographical information about the new officers of the Oklahoma Historical Society and states their new titles. Colonel George H. Shirk has been elected new President of the OHS, H. Milt Phillips in the first Vice President of the OHS, and Mrs. Edna Bowman is the new Treasurer.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Fraker, Elmer L.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Reminiscences by Peter J. Hudson

Description: Article recounts the events and experiences of the author, Peter J. Hudson, as he lived in and around the Choctaw Nation. Included are his memories of the roads, trails, settlements, names, mountains, streams, mining efforts, and events that happened within the region.
Date: Autumn 1934
Creator: Hudson, Peter James
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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