Chief Pushmataha

Joseph Bogy, the trader, was born about 1749 and baptized in Quebec, and had worked out of Arkansas Post under Spanish rule before carrying his business to the Three Forks, where the Verdigris, Grand and Arkansas rivers meet. On January 7, 1807, while he traded with the Osage, Choctaws under Pushmataha took about nine thousand dollars' worth of his goods, Pushmataha holding that dealings with the Osage, enemies of the Choctaw, were just cause for retaliation. Bogy pressed a claim under his trader's license and was eventually compensated, then built a post of vertical, mud-chinked logs.

What the plaque says

Chief Pushmataha Choctaw Indians made hunting expedition from Mississippi to this region, Jan. 1807, led by famous Chief Pushmataha. Camped east on Verdigris River was Joseph Bogy, French trader among Osages, whose armed men engaged Pushmataha's band in battle at the trading camp. Bogy's men were put to rout by the Choctaws. Oklahoma Historical Society 82-1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Fort Gibson Historic Site — 8.6 mi
  The army's first post in what became Oklahoma, built at Three Forks in 1824, where removed nations arrived; deeded to the Cherokee in 1857, it later housed the Dawes Commission.
• Honey Springs Battlefield — 22 mi
  The July 17, 1863 battlefield on the Texas Road, the largest fight in Indian Territory, where Cherokee and Muscogee regiments fought on both sides and the 1st Kansas Colored Infantry held.
• Cherokee National History Museum — 25 mi
  The Cherokee Nation's own history museum, in the brick capitol it built on Tahlequah's square after the Civil War, a short walk from its 1844 supreme court and its 1875 prison.

More markers nearby

• Tullahassee Mission — steps away
• Wigwam Neosho — steps away
• Tullahassee — 2.0 mi
• Fort Davis — 4.9 mi