Slim's Diary - Week Four

It's not unusual to find Slim hangin' out with a purty woman and a mule...

The history of western Oklahoma and the Western Trail is closely interwoven. I had an opportunity to speak to Dr. Alvin O. Turner, Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences, at East Central University, at Ada, Oklahoma about that part of Oklahoma's history and how the Native Americans had a big role to play in their own way.



You may find this map of the Indian Territories of 1890 helpful.