My paternal third great-uncle, Abraham Lincoln Ackley, was mentioned in a San Francisco newspaper one summer in 1891. I was happy to find this article on GenealogyBank this morning.
Abe and his brothers, along with their dad, Sam Ackley, operated ferries that carried people, animals, and supplies across both the Cimarron and Arkansas Rivers in what is today eastern Oklahoma.
As an added bonus, you get to read Women & Cigars next to a charming illustration of that medical giant, Dr. Sweany:
ONE SMALL QUIBBLE: Tulsa was then (and is now) in Creek Nation. The "mouth of the Cimarron" River may have been near Keystone, which was in Pawnee Nation, Oklahoma Territory. (My Ackleys lived in O.T. until Oklahoma became a state in 1907). So I will forgive a reporter from a Fort Smith, Arkansas paper who may have considered anything west of the Arkansas River part of that wild and woolly frontier, "Cherokee Nation." This murder may very well have occurred in Osage Nation, as I find a "Salt Creek" listed near Grainola, Oklahoma.
Source: The Morning Call (newspaper), San Francisco, Calif., Friday, June 26, 1891, Vol. 70, page 8
