Their names were Lawrence and Oscar the girls’ names were Alice, Cora and Blanche and the other two were Frank Clayton’s wife and Dick Fryriar’s wife. She was a widow having a family of five girls and two boys. John Shirley lived just east of the store on the east side of the old Chisholm Trail. He was a half-brother to Bart and Jake Horn. Will Erwin’s folks were the last ones to run the hotel. Silver City consisted of a store, few houses and a hotel which was run by a party by the name of Cornett. Lindsay was the merchant and his helper was Will Sawyer. The town of Silver City was located about two miles north of where Tuttle now stands. Silver City at that time was a great trading place for the Indians. There we landed on the Jimmie Bond ranch. The next place we came to was Leeper, a little store and postoffice by the side of the trail and from there on west to dear old Silver City, Indian Territory. The next morning we hit the trail going on west. From there we came to Wewoka and from there to Sacred Heart Mission and from there to Purcell on the South Canadian River. There in the Cherokee Nation we were joined by some old friends of ours named Polk. It is said that they also employed African-American or Native-American herders rather than white cowboys because white scalps were preferred by the raiding Comanche and Kiowa Indians.Īt the age of fourteen years I moved with my father and mother and three brothers and three sisters in 1889 to the Indian Territory (from Ozark, Arkansas), crossing the Arkansas River at Webbers Falls. Early ranchmen in the neighborhood found it necessary to herd their cattle and horses, and pen them at night, to prevent them from being drifted away by grazing buffalo herds.
Lying on the South Canadian River, Silver City was one of the important halts and trading points on the Chisholm Trail. Silver City Cemetery (2 miles north on Cimarron Road, 0.3 mile west on Silver City Ridge Road, 0.6 mile north on local road)
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