…got so they would stampede at night. Nearly every night there would come a big storm, and we would have to work all night. In those days what a cowboy got to eat was very common, a piece of tough old bread, baked in a skillet, a few pieces of…
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…boy who was captured on the frontier of Texas by the Apaches. He was named Herman Lehmann, and was only 11 years old when captured. He lived eight years among the Apaches and Comanches. He was since written a book, “Indianology,” printed by the Johnson Brothers’ Printing company, San Antonio,…
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…school being compelled to flee the country. In July, 1861, the Confederate Creeks notified the employes of the school that they must leave within twenty-four hours. Reverend Loughridge went with the Confederates to Texas. Miss Mills, Miss Vance, Miss Shepard and Miss Turner, employes of the school, went down the…
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…in a valley, and they don’t know whether it was a cloud burst or a tidal wave or what, but all at once the whole face of the earth became covered with water, and all but a few of the tribe were drowned. Those that were saved were scattered widely,…
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…seen perhaps even deeper. Perhaps we are from the same ancestors as the Comanches, and they also believe that when the great spirit is made the sun betrays it, and for the sun to set behind a cloud, or to have bad dreams, are sure signs of trouble, and that…
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…this time areR. C. Cauthorne, mayor and commissioner of public welfare; A. P. Houglan, city clerk and commissioner of finance; Frank McCartney, commissioner of public property. “Prior to the adoption of the Commission form of government the city was governed by the aldermanic form, each ward being represented by an…
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…finally struck a rich vein of ore, which later developed into the very profitable “Old Chief” mine. These men formed the Commerce Mining and Royalty Company, which has from the beginning been one of the most important and most. successful of any of the several hundred mining companies which have…
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During the year 1871 the M., K. & T. Railroad, then called the Missouri Pacific, was built from Parsons, Kansas, to the Arkansas River, three miles north of the present site of Muskogee. Three months’ time was consumed by the construction company in building the bridges over the river, and…
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