The average person is quite surprised that Civil War battles were fought here in Oklahoma, based, I suppose, on the assumption that as Oklahoma did not become a state until 1907 and, during the ...

The Honey Springs Battlefield in Checotah will be holding its annual memorial service on Saturday, July 19 at 10:30 a.m.

A former Illinois congressman who studied law and was admitted to the bar while recuperating from a wound suffered in the Civil War became one of the first judges for Indian Territory.

The average person is quite surprised that Civil War battles were fought here in Oklahoma, based, I suppose, on the assumption that as Oklahoma did not become a state until 1907, and during the ...

Before Oklahoma was a U.S. state, it was Indian Territory. In a last-ditch effort to retain Native sovereignty, Creek Nation chief Pleasant Porter, pictured here, helped organize a 1905 movement ...

Custer arrived in Indian Territory first. Instead of waiting for forces under Generals Crook and Terry, Custer led little more than 200 men in an attack on the Sioux Chief Sitting Bull's camp on ...