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General Sully who was in charge of the Fort. The Fort was built to accommodate four companies of Cavalry. So you can see that when the settlers came in ’83 they were not exactly alone on the open prairie.
At one time Okobojo had a hotel, two stores, printing office, livery stable blacksmith shop, a town hall and several houses. But never a saloon. At least I never heard of one. Pierre had several that could be reached and that must have been enough.
Well, by now I should have grown to the point of remember a few things so we will move ahead to 1914 or 15.
We lived one and a half miles north east of Okobojo on a 160 acre farm. Pa had purchased the farm from his dad somewhere around 1901 or 02 and this was where the folks lived when they were married.
The house sat back in the north west corner of the quarter section.
A few cottonwood trees had been planted a little east of the house but otherwise the land was bare. About twenty five feet south of the house was a cistern. This was filled with water by hauling the water from Okobojo with a team & wagon