Oklahoma::History: January 2018 Archives

Indian Land Cessions: U.S. Congressional Documents

Links will lead you to maps and descriptions of each of the territories ceded by treaty by Indian nations to the U. S. Government, through the year 1894, from the Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1896-1897. A very useful reference if you are looking for detailed and specific information about the steps and stages of Indian removal and resettlement in Indian Territory.

Panoramic Maps | Library of Congress

Bird's-eye-view maps, panoramic maps, and other semi-geographic, semi-artistic representations of American cities in the early decades of the 20th century. Includes the 1918 Fowler and Kelly maps of Tulsa and Bartlesville.

1948 Shell Highway Map of Oklahoma. - David Rumsey Historical Map Collection

A remarkable map of Oklahoma that not only shows the official highway system, but also county roads and small towns that were usually omitted by the official state highway map. This is Oklahoma before turnpikes, before the Corps of Engineers massive lake-building effort. Highway 33 (now US 412) crossed the Grand River east of Chouteau via a free ferry.

The backside features 1948 maps of Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Muskogee, Okmulgee, Ardmore, and Enid. Interesting to see the paths that the highways took through the cities in the days before interstates and expressways.