Black Beaver Motel - Anadarko, OK

acrylic, and glass beads on canvas 20 x 60

$600.00

Black Beaver. A Delaware guide, born at the present site of Belleville, Ill., in 1806; died at Anadarko, Okla., May 8, 1880. He was present as interpreter at the earliest conference with the Co­manche, Kiowa, and Wichita tribes, held by Col. Richard Dodge on upper Red River in 1834, and from then until the close of his days his services were constantly required by the Government and were invaluable to military and scientific explorers of the plains and the Rocky Mountains. In nearly every one of the early transcontinental ex­peditions he was the most intelligent and most trusted guide and scout.

My family (Reece,Miton, Bell) owned and operated this motel (and the Steak house next door) in Anadarko.OK for decades.

It was sold on my sixteenth birthday in March of 1980. almost 100 years afer Black Beaver's death.