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Oklahoma Trails has several counties and projects up for adoption. If you would be interested in adopting a county or project look at the Oklahoma Trails. If you find one that you would like to adopt e-mail the State Administrator or Assistant State Administrator.[ Being a County or State Administrator is fun and rewarding. If you have an interest in the history of Oklahoma and the genealogy of it's residents please consider it. If you think "there is no way I can do this" there are many people ready, willing and able to help you. It's not near as difficult as you might think. ] | History |
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The Spaniards were the first Europeans to pass through the area. In the 1600s and 1700s they traversed a trade route from Santa Fe (New Mexico) to the Red River. Known as the Great Spanish Road, the pathway paralleled the North Fork of the Red River. Two hundred years later, in 1852 Capt. Randolph B. Marcy explored southwestern part of present Oklahoma in search of the headwaters of the Red River. In the mid- to late-1800s the area provided a migration corridor for Plains Indian tribes such as the Apache, Comanche, Kiowa, Cheyenne, and Arapaho. After the Civil War (1861-65) cattle drives from Texas to Kansas crossed through western Indian Territory, following the Chisholm and Western trails. The Western Trail forded the Red River at Doan's Crossing and passed halfway between Altus and Headrick. In 1881 L. Z. Eddleman established the Cross S Ranch near present Olustee and built a two-story, stone ranch house in 1891. He raised longhorn and shorthorn cattle and supposedly introduced barbed wire in the region. Other ranches included the Herring Ranch, located east of Altus near Navajoe and owned by Texan Cornelius T. Herring, and the H Cross N ranch, south of Altus. | Links |
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County Clerk 101 N. Main P.O. Box 515 Altus, OK, 73522 Phone: (580) 482- 4070 or (580) 482- 0881 Fax: (580) 482- 4472 | Court Clerk 101 N. Main Altus, OK, 73522 Phone 101 N. Main Altus, OK, 73522 | |
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