Dave Blue Trading Post

Historical marker location:

Norman, Oklahoma

( Marker is at the intersection of 48th Avenue Southeast and East Imhoff Road, on the right when traveling north on 48th Avenue Southeast.)

Dave Blue was a trader in the 1870s who hired Cherokee and Creeks to kill wild buffalo. Blue shipped the hides to Atoka for transportation to market in the eastern United States. Blue's trading post was built along the Arbuckle Cattle Trail.

Oklahoma is known as the "Sooner State" because of the land runs that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. "Sooners" were people who snuck into the unassigned lands of the Oklahoma Territory before the official opening of the land runs. The term "Sooner" eventually became a nickname for people from Oklahoma.