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The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Western Railroad ( later the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway ) ran between Guthrie and Chandler, Oklahoma, while the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad ran east from Guthrie to Fallis, Oklahoma.
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Choctaw and Oklahoma
Also, he oversaw the " Trail of Tears ", which involved the expulsion of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek, Chickasaw and Seminole from Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and South Carolina to the Oklahoma territory.
However, during negotiations with the Choctaw in 1820, Andrew Jackson ceded more of Arkansas Territory to the Choctaw than he realized, resulting in a bend in the border between Arkansas and Oklahoma at Ft. Smith, Arkansas.
The General Survey Act of 1824, allowed a survey that established the western border of Arkansas Territory well inside the present state of Oklahoma, where the Choctaw and Cherokee tribes had previously begun to settle.
The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek was the first removal treaty carried into effect under the Indian Removal Act, ceding land in the future state of Mississippi in exchange for land in the future state of Oklahoma, resulting in the Choctaw Trail of Tears.
The removal included many members of the Cherokee, Muscogee ( Creek ), Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations, among others in the United States, from their homelands to Indian Territory ( eastern sections of the present-day state of Oklahoma ).
" The Choctaws in Mississippi were later reformed as the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the removed Choctaws became the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
* Choctaw County, Oklahoma
* Choctaw County, Oklahoma ( northwest )
* Choctaw County, Oklahoma ( north )
The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad built across the southern edge of the county.
Pushmataha County ’ s modern origins lie in the Choctaw Nation, during its time as a sovereign nation in the Indian Territory, prior to Oklahoma statehood.
Choctaw County, Oklahoma, by contrast, passed bonds almost immediately causing bridges to be built throughout the county.
* Choctaw County, Oklahoma ( west )
Choctaw County is a county located in the U. S. state of Oklahoma.
It is also home to the headquarters of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma located in Durant.
Eagle Dance, Choctaw, painted by George Catlin near Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, 1835-7
Today the Choctaws have four tribes, the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, and the MOWA Band of Choctaw Indians.
Choctaw and Western
Mobilian is a pidginized form of Choctaw and Chickasaw ( both Western Muskogean ) that also contains elements of Eastern Muskogean languages such as Alabama and Koasati, colonial languages including Spanish, French, and English, and perhaps Algonquian and / or other languages.
The opening of the Little Rock, Hot Springs & Western Railroad in April 1900 provided a more direct access to Hot Springs from Little Rock and the north, and both the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf and the Iron Mountain took advantage of this route, effectively cutting the volume of interchange traffic into Malvern.
The Choctaw Town site and Improvement Company did this, and when the railroad crossed the North Fork of the Red River in Western Indian Territory an instant town sprang up, on 14 September 1901.
One of the more distinctive early Western swing bands from Oklahoma was Big Chief Henry's Indian String Band, a family group of Choctaw Indians, who performed out of Wichita, Kansas, during the 1920s, and who were recorded by H. C. Speir of Victor Records in 1929.
This has led some linguists to conclude that the Houma spoke a Western Muskogean language ( akin to Choctaw or Chickasaw ).
Choctaw and Railroad
Hendricks — all of whom were land promoters from Weatherford, Oklahoma — when they learned that the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad ( CO & G ) was coming to the area ( in 1898, the CO & G Railroad completed its western route to Weatherford ; beginning in 1901, it continued building west ).
On that date, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad ( later purchased by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad in 1904 ) laid its last rail on the so-called " Choctaw Route ", connecting Elk City with the outside world.
In 1902, the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad ( later owned by the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railway ) was built through the town.
Valliant was founded June 2, 1902, and named for Frank W. Valliant, a chief divisional engineer for the Arkansas & Choctaw Railroad being constructed in the area at that time.
The town of Earlsborough ( as it was spelled on the town plat ) began in 1891, when the Choctaw Coal and Railway ( later the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad ) built a line west from the Seminole Nation into Oklahoma Territory.
In the early spring of 1885, Mr. Beard entered into an agreement with the promoters of the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad Company, then extending its line from Memphis, Tennessee, to Amarillo, Texas, to build through his farm, and in consideration he gave the railway company one-half his claim of one hundred and sixty acres.
It was served by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad ( Rock Island ) railroad.
The Choctaw, Oklahoma and Texas Railroad Company constructed a water well and a switch and section house there.
In 1903, Whitfield sold a 100-foot strip of land that extended across the southern part of Oldham County to the Choctaw, Oklahoma, and Texas ( later Rock Island ) Railroad as a right-of-way.
He built ice plants and roads in Arkansas and constructed water tanks and railroad stations for the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad.
The 1899 Rock Island Railroad Bridge across the Arkansas River, originally leading to Choctaw Station, is in the process of being converted into a pedestrian bridge connecting to North Little Rock, although the US $ 10. 5 million project has been delayed several times.
During the 1960s when the Empire State Railway Museum was based out of Middletown, NY locomotive 103, a 2-6-2 from the Sumter & Choctaw Railroad was operated in excursion service between Middletown and Slate Hill, NY as the Middletown & Orange Railroad.
Of Choctaw heritage, she moved with her family to Kansas City, Missouri after her father took a new position with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad.
The line was initially built in 1900 by the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad, and became part of the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad main line between Memphis, Tennessee, and Tucumcari, New Mexico, in 1904.
Choctaw and later
* Choctaw Nation-Tuskahoma ( later moved to Durant )
In historic times, European traders encountered the Choctaw and later Creek Indians, who were driven southwest from Georgia by encroaching European settlement.
The earliest cession of territory was made in 1818, with a later boundary against the neighboring Choctaw tribe in 1820, opening up the southeastern corner of the Arkansas Territory for settlement.
By 1885 he was farming of what later would become eastern Hughes County, and was enumerated in the Choctaw Nation census of that year.
The boy was later sent back to Kentucky to study at Choctaw Academy and St. Joseph's College in Bardstown.
United States representatives came out to the Choctaw for a treaty council, where LeFlore used his formidable personal political capital and position as head of a unified tribe to secure the largest and most desirable areas of what would later be called Indian Territory.
At a later period some Catawba removed to the Choctaw Nation in Indian Territory and settled near present-day Scullyville, Oklahoma.
Auxiliary Field No. 10 was later named Eglin Dillon Airdrome, now known primarily as Outlying Field Choctaw, a Navy auxiliary field to NAS Pensacola and NAS Whiting Field.
Two days later a force of about 500 Choctaw attacked and captured the fort, killed at least 100 Natchez, and recovered about 50 French captives and 50-100 African slaves.
* Choctaw, Mississippi, Alabama, and parts of Louisiana ; later Oklahoma
His people were possibly ancestors to the several southern Native American confederacies ( the Choctaw and Creek peoples ) who later emerged in the region.
He also later pointed out that at one point during Argonne battle, the adjutants of all three battalions were Jews, one lieutenant was born in Germany, and another lieutenant was a full blooded Choctaw from Oklahoma.
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