Finding the Butterfield: A Journey Through Time in Indian Territory author talk and book signing with Susan Dragoo
August 28, 6 p.m.–7:30 p.m.
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Join the Oklahoma Territorial Museum and Carnegie Library in Guthrie on Thursday, August 28, at 6 p.m., for an author talk and book signing with Susan Dragoo. She will discuss and sign copies of her book Finding the Butterfield: A Journey Through Time in Indian Territory (2024).
Finding the Butterfield: A Journey Through Time in Indian Territory takes the reader through the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations, both in the late 1850s as a passenger on the Butterfield Overland Mail stagecoach and in the 2020s as an explorer seeking the remnants of the old trail in present-day Oklahoma. The Butterfield Overland Mail route of 1858-1861 was the United States’ first transcontinental stagecoach route, running from St. Louis and Memphis more than 2,800 miles to San Francisco, delivering the mail in less than twenty-five days, a remarkable performance for overland travel in the day.
Susan Dragoo is a writer and photographer based in Oklahoma, her historical interests include Oklahoma and southwestern United States history. Since 2016, she has been retracing and exploring the Indian Territory segment of the Butterfield Overland Mail in present-day southeastern Oklahoma. She is President of the Oklahoma chapter of the Butterfield National Historic Trail Association.
