Fort Towson Ark. Jun. 9. Clear strike of circular datestamp with manuscript "25" for over 400-miles rate on folded letter datelined Folets Prairie, June 5, 1842 to Canton O., lengthy contents refer to the writer's location as 36 miles south of Fort Towson (where he posts his letters because it is "the nicest post office in the U.S."), across the Red River boundary of the Choctaw Nation, Very Fine early use posted in Indian Territory at Fort Towson which was situated near the confluence of the Kiamichi and Red Rivers and was renamed Doakesville in late 1847

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