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Stories to Tell


Pioneer Heritage Townsite Center offers glimpses into pre-statehood past By Charles Sasser


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President Theodore Roosevelt (right) came to Frederick in 1906 to hunt coyotes and wolves with John “Jack” Abernathy (left). Courtesy Photo


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museum is more than a dusty collection of old fragments from the past; it is also about the stories. So says Jimmy Espinosa, site man- ager of the Pioneer Heritage Townsite Center in Frederick, Okla. “We’re a little off the beaten tourist route. Actually, we’re a lot off it,” Espinosa admits. “But it’s worth the trip for a look at Oklahoma prairie life pre-statehood up through the 1920s. And it’s about the stories.” Take, for example, the story of Louis “Bud” Abernathy and his brother Temple who rode 2,000 miles on horseback from Frederick to New York in 1910 to greet former President Teddy Roosevelt when he returned from safari in Africa. Louis was nine, his brother six—and they made the journey alone. “The Abernathy boys are what make the museum unique,” says Joe Wynn, member of the museum’s board of directors and past president. “Imagine any parent sending their young kids off on a journey like that today. Jack (the father) treated the children like they were grownups.”


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