Trails to Old Pond Creek

While much has already been written about the Chisholm Trail, little has been said, until now, about the development of the associated roads, the freight and stage companies that used them, and the hardy people who carved out an often dangerous life at the stage stations along the way.           From Fort Elliott to Fort Supply and the Cantonment, to Caldwell, and Arkansas City, Kansas, and the numerous stations and trading ranches stretching along the main trails into Indian territory, Trails to Old Pond Creek documents the history of a vast transportation network that spanned northern Oklahoma, the southern tier of Kansas, and the Texas Panhandle during the late nineteenth century.

Order TRAILS TO OLD POND CREEK from: Mid-South Publications PO Box 718 Goodlettsville, TN 37070 $24.95 plus shipping-Total $27.00 (Book sellers, libraries and historical groups: Please contact us for special rates: jimfulbright@juno.com ) TRAILS TO OLD POND CREEK is also available through your local bookseller or at these  locations: OHS Gift Shop, Oklahoma City, OK Medford Public Library, Medford, OK First State Bank, Pond Creek, OK Chisholm Trail Museum, Kingfisher, OK Museum of the Cherokee Strip, Enid, OK Brace Books, Ponca City, OK Books on the West, Renton, WA Cowboy Hall of Fame and Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City Cherokee Strip Center, Caldwell, KS

Descendants (& friends) of the Hance and Foster families, pioneers of Oklahoma's stage ranches at the cowboy grave monument in Pond Creek, OK.. (L to R) Kay Gregath, John & Ilene Floyd, Barbara Garrison, Hugh Harris, Ken Sproul, Patricia Fillmore, Imogene Shirley

At the Pond Creek Ranch Monument: Hugh Harris, Barbara Garrison, Ken Sproul, Kay Gregath, Jim Fulbright, Ilene Floyd, John Floyd.

Author Jim Fulbright and Cherokee Strip Cowpuncher Association historian Al Stehno at the Pond Creek, Oklahoma, book signing.