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Chickasaw Council Fort Towson Fort Washita Wheelock Academy
House Museum Military Park
15 miles NW of Durant OnHighway 70 in
209N.FisherAvenue, One mile NE of Ft.Towson onStateHwy. 199 Millerton,OK
580.924.6502 580.746.2139
Tishomingo,OK onStateHwy. 70
580.371.3351 580.873.2634 The fort was established First a mission school
The museum is home An original military post to to help protect Choctaws for girls in the late
to one of the largest remove Anglo settlers from & Chickasaws from the 1800s, the academy
collections of Chickasaw Choctaw lands, the fort Plains Indians, but it also now serves as a historical
art, artifacts, and archival has been home to historical housed U.S. troops bound museum for the Choctaw
material. people and battles. for the Mexican War. Nation.
Oklahoma Historical Society
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Th e award-winning reporter—who admits
he still gets emotional when he thinks of LOUISA MCCUNEELMORE
Editor in Chief
Hedges, who died in 1997—enjoys travel,
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Fitzgerald, a staff writer for the Enid News STEFFIE CORCORAN, Senior Editor
& Eagle since 1995, will begin a new job MEGAN ROSSMAN, Associate Editor
VALLERY BROWN, Editorial Assistant
as a staff writer at the Southern Illinoisan in LIZ BLOOD and RHIANNON MAKO, Editorial Interns
Carbondale, Illinois, in early July. Contributors
BROOKE ADCOX, SHEILAH BRIGHT, SHANE BROWN,
JOHN ELK III, ROBERT HENRY, JOHN JERNIGAN,
YOUSEF KHANFAR, R.E. LINDSEY, TOM LUKER,
AMI REEVES, SCOTT WIGTON, and MARY LOGAN WOLF
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COLLEEN MCINTYRE, Production Manager
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Oklahoma Tourism and Recreation Department
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Tourism and Recreation Commission
LT. GOV. JARI ASKINS, Chair
JERRY DOW, JOE HARWOOD, MELVIN MORAN, JIM
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