Myths, Legends & Stories

of Murray County, OK and the Arbuckle Mountain Region.

Never let the facts stand in the way of a good story!

• Farm Tools and how they were used

• The Indian Territory Pharmaceutical Association

• The Legend of Deerface

• The Story of the Corner Saloon

• Advice From an Old U.S. Marshal

• The Great Red River Raft

• The Tale of Three Missing Tombstones

• The Story of Quanah Parker

• Barbed Wire and Nazilagers

• The Story of Cimarron Territory

• The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker

• The Green Peach War

• The Lady Shootist

• Tales From The Oil Patch

• The Last Shootout

• What's in a Man's Name

• The Story of William Guy

• Early Chickasaw Culture

• Chickasaw Nation During the Civil War

• Chickasaw Citizenship and Freedman

• Badman Dick Glass

• What's in a Man's Name

• The Tumbleweed Wagons

• Captain Marcy and the Comanche

• Wild Woman Cave

• The Town That Couldn't Keep A Name

• Pioneer Schools of the Arbuckles

• A History of the Turner Ranch

• Myths and Legends of Judge Isaac Parker

• Murray County in 1925

• Intruders in the Chickasaw Nation

• Turner Falls - The Early Days

• The Initial Point

• Indian Policemen

• U.S. Marshal's in Indian Territory

• 4 Men Hanging

• Ft. Arbuckle's Stolen Gold Shipment

• Ft. Arbuckle's Lost Troops

• The Bear and the Negro Baby

• The Town of Goose Nest

• Lost Spanish Gold & Treasure in the Arbuckles

• The Big Blast

• The Story of Bill Taylor

• The Story of Cyrus Harris

• Judge Parker's Hangman

• The Buffalo Soldiers

• The Killing of Bill Dalton

• The Rose of Cimarron

• The Story of "Arkansas Tom" Jones

• The Last Comanche Raid

• The Story of Tom Hayes

• The Story of Newt Gaddy & Sorghum Flat

• Sulphur's First Telephone Exchange

• The Story of Henderson's Ferry

• The Killing of the Roff Brothers

• The Killing of The Lee Brothers - Outlaws

• Recollections of Joe T. Roff

• Sgt. John L. Prater - First U.S. Marine from Indian Territory

• The Murder of Deputy Sheriff John M. Cantrell

• The Story of the Round Stone Barn

• The Story of the Mysterious Tombstone

• The Death of Bill Fox and Ernest Koenicker

• The Story of the Mad Stone

• The Indian's Head

• The Tonkawa Massacre

• The Last Buffalo in Oklahoma

• The Story of Montford Johnson

• Odd Facts About Murray County Cemeteries

• What's in a Name?

• How the West was Really Won

• Ft. Arbuckle - a poem

• Forty Acres and a Mule

• The Freedmen's School at Ft. Arbuckle

• The Tornado of 1916

• Letters from a 1913 Tourist

• King of the Rattlers

• The Story of James Davidson 

• The Murder of Mrs. Claude Oliver

• Diary of  M.V.B. (Buren) Harris "A Trip to Murray County"

• Texas Cattle Drive

• The End of Della Humby

• Battle at Lee Ranch

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