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Pittsburg County - Oklahoma
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Parent County
1907--Pittsburg County was created 16 July 1907 from Choctaw Nation. County seat: McAlester

1855 to November 16, 1907 Tobucksy (root Tobaksi = Coal) County; Moshulatubbee District, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory County seat: Perryville

Sources: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v007/v007p148.html http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v008/v008p315.html#fn8

Note the county boundaries changed in 1907, the major portion of Pittsburg County came from Tobucksy County, but the geometry of Tobucksy was east to west, where Pittsburg is north to south.

Parent County
1907--Pittsburg County was created 16 July 1907 from Choctaw Nation. County seat: McAlester

1855 to November 16, 1907 Tobucksy (root Tobaksi = Coal) County; Moshulatubbee District, Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory County seat: Perryville

Sources: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v007/v007p148.html http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v008/v008p315.html#fn8

Note the county boundaries changed in 1907, the major portion of Pittsburg County came from Tobucksy County, but the geometry of Tobucksy was east to west, where Pittsburg is north to south.

Migration Routes
Pittsburg County contains the intersection of major migrations routes: The Texas Road (Osage Trace), The Military Road and the California Trail.

Sources: http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v018/v018p215.html “he removed to what was at that time Perryville,1 then quite a settlement, at the crossing of the north and south Texas road with the military road from Fort Smith to Fort Washita and other western forts.”

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v008/v008p146.html “Fort Arbuckle in 1852, Perryville was important as the point where a military trail from Fort Smith to that post crossed the Texas Road. Emigrants traveling from Missouri to Texas were familiar with the village, for a stage stand was kept there until the construction of the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad in 1872. The site of Perryville is now in portions of sections 27, 26, 34, and 35 of Township 5 North, Range 14 East, Pittsburg County. This location is on Highway 73, about three and one-half miles southwest of the City of McAlester, Oklahoma.” Includes a map.

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v014/v014p499.html “most readable account of the old Texas Road. Originally known as the Osage Trace, this road led from St. Louis across Missouri and into northeastern Oklahoma, where it served to connect French trading establishments. The volume of immigration into Texas a century ago using the Osage Trace which was extended southward into that province caused it to become known as the Texas Road. The general route through the Indian Territory served not only the French traders and Texas immigrants, but Jesuit Priests, Indian delegates and pioneers as well.”

http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v011/v011p0798.html “route of the Marcy California Trail northeast from McAlester, continuing north of the San Bois Mountains by way of Kinta and Sans Bois Town”

“This middle trail was known from that time as the California Trail. west of Skullyville, this middle trail crossed the San Bois near the present site of Kinta, continuing north of the San Bois Mountains approximately by way of (a little to the south of) present Quinton, Featherstone, McAlester, and the village of Gerty. Thence on west the California Trail coursed the south side of the Canadian River. Locally, the California Trail out of Skullyville on to Perryville was called the "Perryville Road." After McAlester was founded, it was known as the "McAlester Road" by those who traveled west from Skullyville.”