Volume 13 , Issue 14

Duchess Chilly Spring Domain

Well! NW Okie got her portable greenhouse setup a few days ago. BUT . . . It is still to chilly at night to start setting plants inside. We have a thermometer set inside to show us the temperatures at night, with it dipping down into the low twenties. Brrrrr . . . ! This morning you could see icicle dew drops or moisture on the sides of the heavy plastic walls of the portable greenhouse.

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This Day In History (April 4)

On this day in history, April 4th, 1968, 43 years ago today, civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., 39, was shot to death in Memphis, Tennessee. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., preached non-violence and racial brotherhood, was fatally shot April 4, 1968 by a distant gunman. King was pronounced dead at 7:05 P.M. Central standard time by staff doctors.

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NW Okie's Ancestrial Lineage

[ Photo on the left -- The younger years of Henry Clay & Sarah Frances CONOVER Paris Family: seated down front, between Sarah Frances CONOVER & Henry Clay PARIS, Myrtle Mae & Arthur Henry; Standing left to right, Ernest Claude (my grandfather), Volney Peter, Decator Ray "Dee"; Seated on the right front, Henry Clay Paris; Seated on the left front,: Sarah Frances Conover.]

This week we bring you another part of NW Okie's ancestral lineage with the PARIS / PEARIS / PARRIS ancestrial lineage. [more]...   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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Indian Territory & United States (1866-1906)

Indian Territory & United States (1866-1906) According to the book, Indian Territory and the United States, 1866-1906 written by Jeffrey Burton, After the defeat of the confederacy, the Five Tribes signed treaties which, in permitting the creation of a federal court within Indian Territory, could hasten the dissolution of tribal institutions and absorption the Five Nations into the federal structure, with or without tribal consent.

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Railroads In Indian Territory (1870-1907)

On page 118, of the Historical Atlas of Oklahoma by Charles Robert Goins, Danney Goble, James H. Anderson John Wesley Morris, there is information concerning "Railroads, 1870-1907.

The Army Appropriation Act of March 3, 1853, funded a survey for a possible transcontinental railway route along the 35th parallel through Indian Territory. BUT . . . railroads did not enter Indian Territory until 1870.

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1906 Train Wreck At Dover, OK

Have you ever heard the story of the train wreck at Dover, Oklahoma? In reading the history the Dover train wreck happened around September, 1906. Does anyone out there have any ancestral stories of the Dover train wreck of 1906?

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Leases In the Cherokee Outlet & Cheyenne-Arapaho Reservation

It was after the Civil War, cattle prices in the East soared as demand for beef exceeded supply.

In 1866, Texas cattlemen, seeking to maximize profits, began driving large herds northward through Indian Territory to railheads in Kansas and Missouri. The routes traveled soon developed into major cattle trails: such as the Chisholm Trail and the Great Western Trail, which bisected lands owned by the Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes and the Cherokee Nation.

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Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center Opens April 1

The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid, Oklahoma celebrated its Grand Opening Friday, April 1, 2011, at 11 a.m. This new regional heritage center is located at 507 S. 4th Street in Enid, Oklahoma. The Enid community working in partnership with the Oklahoma Historical Society created the Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center to tell the extraordinary stories of settling the Cherokee Strip and share the inspiring lessons of leadership with future generations.

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Iowa, Sac & Fox, Pottawatomie, & Kickappoo Lands

The first lands attached to the new Oklahoma Territory under the Organic Act came from the small reservations assigned to the Iowa, Sac and Fox, and Pottawatomie Tribes.

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Mattie Beal's Lucky Day

In 1901, one lot in one town went to one very fortunate telephone operator. By then, the government had given up on the colorful but chaotic land runs in favor of a more orderly lottery system. Would be claimants registered with land officials, then waited to make their choices as names were drawn in order.

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