At 12:49 PM 9/27/98 EDT, WendyGayle@aol.com wrote: > >What wonderful ideas! I'll go get one this week. I love to just sit and look at maps of where my folks lived. As you research earlier times, Maps that show early postal roads, migration trails and waterways become really important. Railroads in existence during certain time frames, cenus maps of the concentration of foreign born citizens, stuff like that. I highly recommend the Historical Atlas of Oklahoma by John H Morris to anyone doing a great deal of Oklahoma research. Maps I have found especially helpful in this volume are: Homelands of Oklahoma Indians. (shows the original lands in the US the tribes who came to Oklahoma occupied) American Explorers: 1832-1853 (shows the original Forts and Posts and roads used by various explorers in that time frame) Railroads in Oklahoma 1870-1975. (Also shows old abandoned lines) Counties of Oklahoma Territory and Recording districts of Indian Territory Indian Territory 1866-1889 Shows all of Indian Territories by tribe. Indian Territory 1889 Shows what is left of Indian Territory in 1889 Cattle Trails shows all the old cattle trails and how the ran. Cherokee Nation, Important places. Gives town listings for all the important places in the Cherokee Nation. Important Routes and Trails through Indian Territory Removal of the Five Tribes. Shows the route of the "Trail of Tears" and what tribes were removed from where. Those are the ones in the book I have used most in my research, but there are many many many others in this atlas. Nalora