Wigwam Neosho

Houston did not keep the post alone. Dianna Rogers, an Old Settler Cherokee widowed in the Osage wars, lived with him at Wigwam Neosho from 1829, tending the farm and the people enslaved there and helping run the store on the Texas Road. The Cherokee Council had granted Houston citizenship on October 21, 1829, and the tribe recognized the couple as married. When he left for Texas in 1833 she stayed with her family, remarried in 1836 and died of pneumonia on November 4, 1838. Where she lies is unknown; the 1904 Fort Gibson grave is disputed.

What the plaque says

Wigwam Neosho Was trading post in 1829-33, named and conducted by Ex- Gov. Sam Houston of Tenn., who was called Colonah (The Raven) by his Cherokee friends. As a celebrity in the Indian Ter., Houston was visited by the American author Washington Irving who came to this country in 1832, and made notes for his book, A Tour on the Prairies, now an Oklahoma classic. Oklahoma Historical Society 84-1995

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

• Chief Pushmataha — steps away
• Tullahassee Mission — steps away
• Tullahassee — 2.0 mi
• Fort Davis — 4.9 mi