Mr. Green Yeargen was one of the Pony Express Riders through this
country from 1778 to 1780.
     The route came from Vinita to Tulsa.  The stop at Tulsa was at the
Perryman house on the Arkansas River, about two miles south of what is
now First and Main Streets.  They crossed the river between there and 
what is now West Tulsa; went from there to the west of what is now 
Sapulpa and to the Sac and Fox Agency, six miles south of Stroud.  The
next stop was the Arapaho Agency.
     The men built two camps between the Sac and Fox Agency and the 
Arapaho Agency.  One, a log cabin on the north side of the North 
Canadian, was called Camp McCollough.  This is now Oklahoma City.  The
other, some fifty or sixty miles west, was called Camp Morris.
     Mr. Yeargen rode from Vinita to the Sac and Fox Agency, a distance
of anyway one hundred miles.  There was another rider, he remembered, by
the name of Dick Hartshorne.
     Lots of the time, there would not be nearly a load of mail but they
would travel on schedule anyway.
     It was started out as a weekly trip but finally became daily.  The
western terminal for this line was Las Vegas, New Mexico.  This was in 
existence for about two years.