Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory
and
LeFlore County, Oklahoma 
Newspapers

NOTE: surnames listed in the various newspaper tidbits 
are *not* incorporated into the site index.

OKGenWeb Newspaper Information 

• Listing of LeFlore Co. Newspapers at the OHS 

• Newspaper Search Request Form  

• Oklahoma Historical Society 
  Newspaper Archives
  2100 N. Lincoln Blvd. 
  Oklahoma City, OK 73105-4997 
  405-521-2491
      List of LeFlore Co. Newspapers
• LeFlore County Obits Online
  selected submissions
• LeFlore Co. Obit Index
• LeFlore Co. Funeral Homes

Various Newspaper Transcriptions

• List of LeFlore Co. Newspapers
   
• 1901 Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Co. Time Table
• 1904 Witteville Mine Explosion
  [unable to locate news article]
• 1906 Witteville Mine Explosion
• 1906 Talihina Bank Robbery
• 1910 Wister Fire
• 1911 Bokoshe Train Wreck
• 1911 Mine Explosion - Poteau
• 1912 Mine Explosion - San Bois, McCurtain, Haskell Co.
• 1912 Tarby Prairie Train Robbery
• 1913 Poteau
• 1915 Talihina Tornado
• 1917 Talihina Sanitarium
• The Choctaw Herald  
  July 1906
• 1918 Witteville Mine Explosion
• Howe News - June 1947
• Flower Hill News - June 1947
• Latham-101 News
• Lone Star News - June 1947
• Pocola News - June 1947
• Poteau marriages - July 1919
• Poteau News - June 1947
• Shady Point News - May 1946
• Shady Point News - June 1947
• Town of Bokoshe Ordinance - 1947
• Talihina American - Feb 1919
• Talihina American - May 1933
• Unknown Newspaper - LeFlore County - Aug 1948 - Clippings

• Heavener Ledger [The]
507 E 1st St
Heavener, OK 74937-3203
918-653-2425
  has some old newspapers, but will not do lookups or allow access to archived material [Oct 2002]
 
• Poteau Daily News
  804 N Broadway St 
  Poteau, OK 74953-3535 
  918-647-3188
  obituary information online from 
    2-24-98 - current
   
• Poteau Today 
  203 Dewey Ave 
  Poteau, OK 74953-4203 
  918-647-8455
   
• Spiro Graphic
  212 S Main St
  Spiro, OK 74959-2506
  918-962-2075
  918-962-3531

• Wister
  Three early newspapers were operated here
  • Hardy published the Wister Ledger
  • Bridgman published the Wister News
  • Mr. Greenlee published a newspaper
  • A Missionary Baptist paper was being edited and printed here by Rev. Joe Muse in the early day.
  • Another was "Wister New Area" by John Edgell -1895
    Source:   Proud Heritage of LeFlore Co. p. 258