Some government officials considered it the most important post on the Western frontier. Still others cried for its relocation. Meanwhile, liquor, fever and poor living conditions were causing scores of desertions and deaths. Two Army prisoners sentenced to hard labor were assigned to dig a well at Fort Gibson in 1837. They began work and …
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