File:Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa (1922) (14777403984).jpg

Identifier: muskogeenortheas00bene (find matches)
Title: Muskogee and northeastern Oklahoma, including the counties of Muskogee, McIntosh, Wagoner, Cherokee, Sequoyah, Adair, Delaware, Mayes, Rogers, Washington, Nowata, Craig, and Ottawa
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Benedict, John Downing, 1854-
Subjects:
Publisher: Chicago : S.J. Clarke Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
ntaining a county dispensary at the county courthouse, incharge of a trained nurse who furnishes free advice or treatmentto those in need of it. The homes of the poorer classes are visited,the schools are inspected and advice is given in the matter of thepreservation of the health of the babies of the county. Washington County is located in the extreme northwesterncorner of the old Cherokee Nation and the old-time Cherokeescan tell many thrilling stories of their squabbles with the half-civilized Osages adjoining them on the west. The Osages were ofa roving disposition and in various ways they were inclined toannoy the Cherokee farmers. Several battles and skirmishes werefought between them but finally they agreed upon a treaty ofpeace which was observed by both tribes, barring a few raids ofcattle-stealing charged against the roving Osages. Several yearsago the county employed an active agricultural agent,-a graduateof an agricultural college, who has been devoting his entire time to
Text Appearing After Image:
JOHNSTONE PAKK, BARTLESVILLE MUSKOGEE AND NORTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA 613 working with and for the farmers and as a result of his work, im-proved methods of agriculture are already noticeable. Washington County is well supplied with railroad facilities, thetwo great systems, the Missouri, Kansas & Texas, and the Atchi-son, Topeka and Sante Fe lines crossing the county and intersect-ing at Bartlesville, the county seat. The Sante Fe road traversesthe entire length of the county from north to south, passingthrough the towns of Owen, Copan, Dewey, Bartlesville, Mataoka,Ochelata, Ramona and Vera, while the M. K. & T. road crosses thecounty in a northeasterly direction, passing through Bartlesvilleand Dewey. During all the years when cattle were roaming the prairies bythe thousands and later when the prairies were being cut up intofarms no one, apparently dreamed that vast fortunes lay hiddenunderneath the surface in the form of oil and natural gas. Thefirst oil well in this county, bein

Note About Images