Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . in pur-suit of game, to be captured or massacred by lurking foes. Mould-ering skulls and skeletons, bleaching in some dark ravine, or nearthe traces of a hunting camp, occasionally mark the scene of aforegone act of blood, and let the wanderer know the dangerousnature of the region he is traversing. It is the purport of the fol-lowing pages to narrate a months excursion to these noted huntinggrounds, through a tra
Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa . in pur-suit of game, to be captured or massacred by lurking foes. Mould-ering skulls and skeletons, bleaching in some dark ravine, or nearthe traces of a hunting camp, occasionally mark the scene of aforegone act of blood, and let the wanderer know the dangerousnature of the region he is traversing. It is the purport of the fol-lowing pages to narrate a months excursion to these noted huntinggrounds, through a tract of country which had not as yet been ex-plored by white men. Fort Gibson was named in honor of Colonel Gibson at that timechief of the Commissary Department of the army. Cheaply con-structed buildings were utilized at first for housing the army post,but twenty years later, spacious barracks, officers headquartersand other buildings were constructed of stone obtained from thenear-by hills. Many persons of National prominence have at various timesbeen stationed here. THE FIRST CHUECH IN INDIAN TERRITORY, BUILT BY COLONELBELKNAP AT THE MILITARY POST OF FORT GIBSON ABOUT 1845. OFFICERS HEADQUARTERS, FORT GIBSON, PRIOR TO THE CIVIL WAR MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 477 Zachary Taylor, rough and ready, afterward President ofthe United States, was stationed there, as colonel, for a while,about 1835, as was also his son-in-law, Jefferson Davis, a lieuten-ant in the regular army. It is claimed that Davis eloped withTaylors daughter, married her, resigned his commission in thearmy and returned to his home in Mississippi. Gen. Sam Houstonwas located there for a while and other military men, who after-ward acquired fame, were stationed there for a longer or shorterperiod of time, some of them merely on tours of inspection. Soonafter the M. K. & T. railroad had completed the laying of its trackas far as Gibson Station, James G. Blaine came down and traveledby stage from Gibson Stati
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