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Butterfield Overland Mail Site of Boggy Depot
Here was located a stage stand of the Butterfield Overland Mail Rount, under act of congress, March 3, 1857. First
mail stage arrived here in september 1858, enroute to San Francisco. Service continued until the outbreat of the War Between The States.
Oklahoma Historical Society, 1953
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