The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 60, July 1956 - April, 1957 Page: 157
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Texas Collection
Museum for some time before taking the trail again for Red
River.
Originally the Texans were to be met by the Oklahoma dele-
gation on Red River bridge, where brief ceremonies were to be
held before the combined parties drove on to Addington. The
Oklahomans were delayed, however, and the Texans, keeping to
their time schedule, swept across the river and through Seminole,
thus winning by default the surprise mock battle which the
Oklahomans had planned to stage at the river. According to the
San Antonio Express:
The Oklahomans, many equipped with both Ph. D. degrees and
revolvers with blank ammunition, were to resist the Texas forces.
But the Oklahomans arrived at the would-be battle site about five
minutes too late.
At Monument Hill near Addington, the Texas and Okla-
homa delegations met and had lunch with the Old Pickens
County Cowpunchers Association as guests of Duncan and other
towns in the area. Mr. Elmer L. Fraker, administrative secre-
tary of the Oklahoma Historical Society, and Mr. H. B. Bass, a
director of the Society and member of the Oklahoma Chisholm
Trail Committee, welcomed the Texans. In his response, Dr.
Ewing carried the greetings of Governor Shivers to the people
of Oklahoma and, referring to the recent successful Texan pene-
tration of the Oklahoma Red River front, concluded with the
hope that "may nothing more ever separate Texas and Okla-
homa other than Red River and two football teams."
The 1956 Chisholm Trail Celebration Drive was a great suc-
cess and should be a trail blazer for other similar activities in
Texas in the future. This celebration effectively demonstrated
the possibility of state-wide co-operative effort, the real public
interest in such enterprise, and the wholehearted support it can
expect from the newspapers of the state. Recognizing the prob-
ability that omissions will be made, the Association should,
nevertheless, acknowledge the fine coverage that appeared in the
San Antonio Express, the Austin Statesman, the Austin Ameri-
can, the Waco News-Tribune, the Fort Worth Press, the Fort
Worth Star-Telegram, the Dallas News, the Wichita Falls Record-
News, and the Wichita Falls Times.157
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