In the summer of 1909 the Abernathy brothers set off alone on horseback, riding from their Cross Roads Ranch in Tillman County to Santa Fe, New Mexico and back. Louie (Bud) was nine years old. Temple was only five.
On April 5, 1919, with Bud and . . . — — Map (db m120036) HM
Horse Creek School built in 1902 four miles north and seven miles east of Manitou, Oklahoma, served as a school until 1946. For a while in the 1960's it became North Deep Red Baptist Church. In 1977 the building was given to the Frederick Rotary . . . — — Map (db m287555) HM
When Kiowa-Comanche-Apache lands in Oklahoma opened to white settlement 1901, there were 505,000 acres reserved as grazing lands. This area became known as Big Pasture. Most of region leased for cattle ranching. Because of soil’s fertility, white . . . — — Map (db m282381) HM
President Theodore Roosevelt arrived by train, in Frederick, Oklahoma, on April 5, 1905. The President came to join famed wolf hunter, Jack “Catch ‘em Alive” Abernathy, on a wolf hunting expedition. More than 5,000 excited citizens . . . — — Map (db m108858) HM
On April 5, 1910, 9 year old Bud and 5 year old Temple Abernathy, left the Crossroads Ranch near Frederick, Oklahoma, and traveled alone on horseback to New York City. Their father, Jack Abernathy, a close friend of President Theodore Roosevelt, . . . — — Map (db m120033) HM
