Dark plumes of smoke billowed over the St. Louis and San Francisco station as the fire spread. Shop owners watched in horror as the wooden...
Cool Things To See Around Poteau
Interesting Eastern Oklahoma History
Edward B. “Coon” Ratterree, made famous in Larry McMurtry’s novel “Zeke and Ned”, was a Deputy U.S. Marshal in Indian Territory from 1889 ...
During the 1800s, Eastern Oklahoma was a wild and rugged place. Stories like "True Grit" and Clint Eastwood's "Hang &...
The big red brick building might seem out of place to the unknowing visitor coming on it unexpectedly there in the center of the Yanush Val...
Captain Welch is buried near the old Brazil Cemetery, just South of Brazil Creek where the Oklahoma Historical Society has erected a marker ...
Chief Joseph Kincaid was a nephew of the Great Chief Mosholatubbee. He was educated at the Choctaw Academy before moving to Indian Terri...
"Warrior who preserves" Moshulatubbee (1770-1838) Moshulatubbee, a great medal chief and the son of Homastubbe, succeeded his fat...
In the wild and wooly days before Oklahoma became a state, the Choctaw were forcibly removed from their traditional homelands and were tran...
During the 1880’s, Poteau Switch was well known as a rough and tumble town. While most citizens made a go at civilization, it would be clos...
The first school in the area that would eventually become Poteau Switch was located where the St. Louis and San Francisco train depot now st...