TULSA

    þ   Leave Washington Irving Park and turn left/north on Memorial.
    þ   Continue to 101st Street and turn left/west. aTravel west on 101st Street.
    þ   Turn right/north at the Arkansas River.

On the morning of October 13, Mr. Manhattan was gone. All the travelers felt the loss, the Count most of all. He wouldn’t see the exceptional youth again.

. . . we searched in vain for my friend . . . Manhattan. He had disappeared, with his horse . . . I found out later that his relatives, cousins, etc., had dissuaded him from going off with the whites; they had terrified him! . . . Good-by, then, oh mighty marksman. CP 48

That morning, the Tourists traveled due north on what is now Memorial or Mingo. Stands of native trees pop up all along the path through Tulsa. On Memorial, look between 121st and 131st on the right. A settlement of houses on the right at 115th is enveloped in native trees. You are in the city of Tulsa.

Tulsa, Oklahoma
    Lochapocha
         Tulsey Town

1824  Osages ceded this big bend in the Arkansas to the Muscogee Creeks.
1832  Washington Irving traveled Riverside Drive from south to north.
1836  Muscogee Creek settlers chose a Post Oak Tree for their Council meetings.
1849  Lewis Perryman ranched from the Arkansas River to many miles east.
1870 The Osages began to move back to northeast Oklahoma.
1898 Tulsa was incorporated on January 18.
1901  Oil was discovered right across the river from Tulsa.
1906 The Midland Valley Railroad was built.
1915  The Washington Irving Monument was dedicated.
1920 Tulsa’s spectacular skyline began to rise.
1928 Tulsa banker James H. McBirney built a mansion near a natural spring.
1974 The River Parks Authority was formed.
1992 The first stage of the Creek Expressway was completed.
1994 NatureWorks dedicated its first bronze of a native animal.

We had not ridden above three or four miles . . . a couple of miles further . . . the rangers set up a shout, and pointed to . . . horses grazing in a woody bottom . . . A few paces brought us to an elevated ridge, from whence we looked down upon the encampment. WI 47

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