 A large creek ran the full length of the south side, which provided many recess activities like catching crawdads.During the 1880s the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, more popularly known as the “Frisco”, built a line from north to south through the Choctaw Nation, connecting Fort Smith, Arkansas with Paris, Texas.The railroad paralleled the Kiamichi River throughout much of its route in present-day Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.