Turkey Track Ranch

Cushing rose on the ranch's roundup ground, and a trader picked the spot. William Little, called Billy Rae, had been a government trader for the Sac and Fox and chose a townsite before the 1891 run; afterward he built a house to hold his claim and laid out lots. The post office opened on November 10, 1891, named for Marshall Cushing, secretary to Postmaster General John Wanamaker. When the railroad came in 1902, two promoters loaded the post office on skids on the night of September 13 and moved it half a mile to their addition by the depot.

What the plaque says

Turkey Track Ranch Site of ranch headquarters was 2-1/2 mi. north of here. Round- ups were on present site of Cushing. This area was grazing land for Texas cattle driven north, 1866 to 1885. The region was opened to settlers on Sept. 22, 1892. Sac and Fox village 1/4 mile north. Oklahoma Historical Society 60-1995

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Pawnee Nation Museum — 26 mi
  The Pawnee Nation's own museum in Pawnee, keeping the Nation's objects and the record of a military tradition it traces from the Pawnee Scouts of 1864 to the code talkers of World War II.

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