Two Cowboys - Jefferson, OK
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The Snowdog
N 36° 42.521 W 097° 47.460
14S E 607983 N 4063237
This monument is about a mile east of Highway 81, south of Jefferson, Oklahoma.
Waymark Code: WM1668V
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 05/16/2022
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A sign on Highway 81 indicates a "Chisholm Trail Historical Marker" west of the highway, on an unimproved road. The historical marker (and grave site) is on top of a rise in a farmer's field, to the south of the road. Two cowboys are buried here. The marker gives their story:
On this spot lie buried two cowboys who gave their lives in winning the frontier to civilization. Tom Best rode south from Kansas in 1872 to join the Texas Cattle drivers, but was killed by hostile Indians a short distance north of this point. Ed Chambers, in 1873, rode north with a herd from Texas, and he, too, was killed by Indians about a mile south east of here.
The marker was erected by the National Youth Administration, and was sponsored by the Grant County Commissioners, the Pond Creek and Medford Lions Clubs, and the WPA Historical Markers Project in 1937.
County: Grant
Record Address::
East 0210 Road
West of Highway 81
Jefferson, OK United States
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Date Erected: 1937
Sponsor (Who put it there): National Youth Administration
Web site if available: Not listed
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