NORMAN

    þ Continue on I 35 to OK 9 and turn left/east.
    þ On OK 9 you are in Norman.
    þ Take a short trip to the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. The Museum is on Chautauqua and Timberdell Road.

Norman, Oklahoma
    Sam Noble,
        Oklahoma museum of Natural History

1832 The prairies from Midwest City to Noble were the setting for an exhilarating, frightening, and successful buffalo hunt.
1887 The Norman switch and Camp Norman were established on the railroad tracks through the Unassigned Lands.
1889 When Norman was opened for settlement, some jumped the gun and were called Sooners.
1889 The University of Oklahoma was chartered. Its football song will begin “Boomer Sooner!”
1931 University of Oklahoma Professor, Dr. J. Willis Stovall, found the skeleton of a brontosaurus and brought it back to his small museum.
1987 The Stovall Museum, not even big enough for the mammoth skeleton to stand erect, became the Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.
2000 Due to an important gift from an excellent Oklahoma family, the museum is now the Sam Noble Museum of Natural History. The museum’s collection when not on exhibit is in the J. Willis Stovall Heritage Preservation Center

Hungry days were ahead for all the Tourists, all the rangers, and all the guides. It was more than a week before they were back where they began, Fort Gibson.

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