My Name is Matthew Walton James. I was born in 1869, and am now 68 years old. I do not know how old I was when we lived on the old Military Road that came through from Skelton Depot to Fort Wichita and through to Tishomingo, Oklahoma, to Fort Arbuckle, to Fort Cobb, to Fort Reno and o n west. The road that I have reference to was discontinued about the year of 1872, after the Katy Railroad was built through this country. . . . The famous old Military Road came in from Arkansas to Fort Towson near Doaksville, thence in a westerly direction to Armstrong Academy to Washita, Tishomingo, thence west to Fort Arbuckle. At each station there were United States soldiers stationed.
http://www.choctawnation.com/history/people/original-enrollees/james-matthew-walton/

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See also:
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v010/v010p501.html

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Skelton Depot was a few miles west of the present town of Broken Bow.
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v019/v019p314.html

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Skelton Depot, Lukfata - now McCurtain County, OK
http://newsarch.rootsweb.com/th/index/Indian-Territory-Roots/1999-04