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February 2025
“Third Indian Home Guard” program
Visit the Fort Gibson Historic Site from February 4 through 8 to see the uniforms and equipment that would have been available to the Third Indian Home Guard in the 1860s. The Third Indian Home Guard was instrumental in U.S. military successes in the American Civil War. It was made up of many citizens of Indian Territory nations, including Cherokee civilians who lived in the area surrounding Fort Gibson Military Post. The Third Regiment was formed at Tahlequah and Park…
Find out more »“Third Indian Home Guard” program
Visit the Fort Gibson Historic Site from February 4 through 8 to see the uniforms and equipment that would have been available to the Third Indian Home Guard in the 1860s. The Third Indian Home Guard was instrumental in U.S. military successes in the American Civil War. It was made up of many citizens of Indian Territory nations, including Cherokee civilians who lived in the area surrounding Fort Gibson Military Post. The Third Regiment was formed at Tahlequah and Park…
Find out more »“Third Indian Home Guard” program
Visit the Fort Gibson Historic Site from February 4 through 8 to see the uniforms and equipment that would have been available to the Third Indian Home Guard in the 1860s. The Third Indian Home Guard was instrumental in U.S. military successes in the American Civil War. It was made up of many citizens of Indian Territory nations, including Cherokee civilians who lived in the area surrounding Fort Gibson Military Post. The Third Regiment was formed at Tahlequah and Park…
Find out more »“Third Indian Home Guard” program
Visit the Fort Gibson Historic Site from February 4 through 8 to see the uniforms and equipment that would have been available to the Third Indian Home Guard in the 1860s. The Third Indian Home Guard was instrumental in U.S. military successes in the American Civil War. It was made up of many citizens of Indian Territory nations, including Cherokee civilians who lived in the area surrounding Fort Gibson Military Post. The Third Regiment was formed at Tahlequah and Park…
Find out more »“Third Indian Home Guard” program
Visit the Fort Gibson Historic Site from February 4 through 8 to see the uniforms and equipment that would have been available to the Third Indian Home Guard in the 1860s. The Third Indian Home Guard was instrumental in U.S. military successes in the American Civil War. It was made up of many citizens of Indian Territory nations, including Cherokee civilians who lived in the area surrounding Fort Gibson Military Post. The Third Regiment was formed at Tahlequah and Park…
Find out more »Dawes Commission in Cherokee Nation: Freedmen Exhibit closes
The Fort Gibson Historic Site exhibit Dawes Commission in Cherokee Nation, which features Freedmen history, will remain open through the end of February 2025. The exhibit covers a brief historical moment in the late 1800s when formerly enslaved people from across the territory traveled to Fort Gibson to be enrolled in the Dawes Rolls. The Fort Gibson staff has worked directly with Freedmen descendants to curate the photographs of the Freedmen exhibit. Captain McKennon set up an office in one…
Find out more »April 2025
Luck is a Fortune: Adventure, Duty, and Buffalo on the 1841 Frontier book signing and discussion with author Dr. Robert Pickering
On Saturday, April 19, at 1 p.m., the Fort Gibson Historic Site will host a book signing for the title Luck is a Fortune: Adventure, Duty, and Buffalo on the 1841 Frontier (2024) with author Dr. Robert Pickering.
Luck is a Fortune recounts the adventures and excursions of two soldiers living at an outpost in eastern Oklahoma in the 1840s. The title is derived from a note one of them scribbled in his diary – “luck is a fortune” – a fitting thought as life on the Plains meant death could come from any direction; one learned survival skills or faced death.
“This book is the result of an extraordinary coincidence,” Pickering said. “The University of Tulsa holds two diaries written by soldiers stationed at Fort Gibson in 1841. One was written by a young lieutenant who was a West Point graduate and the son of wealthy Southern planter family, while the other diary was written by a maker of hats in New York and probably an Irish immigrant – two very different people living on America’s westernmost outpost in 1841.”
The book signing will take place in the Fort Gibson Hospital Visitor Center located at 803 North Garrison Avenue, Fort Gibson.
Find out more »May 2025
Fort Gibson Education Day
The Fort Gibson Historic Site will host its annual Education Day on Friday, May 9, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. One day a year, the Fort Gibson Historic Site is closed to all but Oklahoma’s young scholars for a fun-filled day of education! Fort Gibson Historic Site staff, living historians, and volunteers will demonstrate skills, crafts, and trades that enabled people to thrive in 19th-century Indian Territory. Registered schools can expect to see demonstrations of daily life in the…
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