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Berry, Shelley, Small Towns, Ghost Memories of Oklahoma: A Photographic Narrative of Hamlets and Villages Throughout Oklahoma's Seventy-seven Counties (Virginia Beach, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 2004). Blake Gumprecht, "A Saloon On Every Corner: Whiskey Towns of Oklahoma Territory, 1889-1907," The Chronicles of Oklahoma 74 (Summer 1996).
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Unlocking the Past by Madeline DeJournett and Elfreda Cox (May 2007) ghost towns in Stoddard County, Missouri. Ghost towns of the American West Ghost town Gallery
Boggy Depot is a ghost town and Oklahoma State Park that was formerly a significant city in the Indian Territory.It grew as a vibrant and thriving town in present-day Atoka County, Oklahoma, United States, and became a major trading center on the Texas Road and the Butterfield Overland Mail route between Missouri and San Francisco.
Cherokee Town started to gain importance when a cross-country stage line was started, designated at 20 miles (32 km) intervals. Many goods wagons and buggies would come through the town. Militia and their subsequent wagons with weapons would go through the town as-well. As a result of the conundrum, the town slowly increased.
The area was fertile, with a surplus of water. It was near the recently built Frisco Railroad. For a minor amount of time, two towns, North Cold Springs and South Cold Springs, existed adjacent to each other. North Cold Springs stopped existing, and South Cold Springs loaded the depot of its twin town and added it to their town.
The town became a trade center for the area's settlers, cowhands and Indians. In addition to the post office, school and churches, it had grocery stores, hardware stores, saloons, a general store, a blacksmith shop, a confectionery, a dry goods store, a wagon yard, a hotel and a cotton gin.
Map showing Kosoma, Indian Territory, c. 1898--the height of its success. A permanent settlement has existed at the site of modern Kosoma since at least the 1880s. During the 1880s, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway , more popularly known as the “Frisco”, built a line from north to south through the Choctaw Nation , connecting Fort Smith ...