Pusley's Station was a stage stand on the old

Butterfield Overland Mail Butterfield Overland Mail (officially the Overland Mail Company)Waterman L. Ormsby, edited by Lyle H. Wright and Josephine M. Bynum, "The Butterfield Overland Mail", The Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 1991. was a stagecoach service i ...

route in

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. It was located in what is now Latimer County, Oklahoma, on the south side of Gains Creek. The station was named for Silas Pusley, a trader and member of a prominent Choctaw family. In 1859, the Choctaw Council granted Pusley the right to build a bridge and tollbooth across Gains Creek near his station. Pusley's Station was added to the

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(#72001068) in 1972. The listing included a

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, two

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, and a

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. With

Sources

*Shirk, George H. ''Oklahoma Place Names''. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1987: . *Wright, Murial H.; George H. Shirk; Kenny A. Franks. ''Mark of Heritage''. Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, 1976. *Wright, Muriel H
"The Butterfield Overland Mail One Hundred Years Ago"
''Chronicles of Oklahoma'' 35:1 (January 1957) 55-71 (accessed August 22, 2006).

References

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