Appearance at Main Library-Johnson County

I will be speaking at the Main Johnson County Library, 87th And Farley, Overland Park, KS, on Tuesday evening, January 23, 2007 at 7:00 P.M. about writing "The Late Sooner." Come join us. Everyone welcome.

Jesse Chisholm

Jesse Chisholm, half-Scot, half-Cherokee, was a dominant force on the frontier as a trader, interpreter, and guide. He arranged numerous peace councils with the Indians, accompanied several important military expeditions, and blazed a wagon trail through the center of the Indian Territory which became known as the Chisholm Cattle Trail.

Five Civilized Tribes and The Civil War

At the time of the Civil War, the Five Civilized Tribes owned most all of what became Oklahoma except for the Panhandle and Old Greer County. As punishment for siding with the Confederacy, the federal government took away the western half of their lands. These were the lands opened to settlers later in Oklahoma history.
They attempted to enter the Union as the state of Sequoyah in 1905, but instead joined Oklahoma Territory to become one state in 1907.