Oklahoma War Chief

Historical marker location:

Braman, Oklahoma

( Marker is on U.S. 177 north of West Home Road, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1995

Captain David L. Payne published the first newspaper in the Cherokee Outlet, the Oklahoma War Chief, on June 14, 1884, in a printing plant in a tent in this area. The printing office was burned by federal troops two months later.