Altus Oklahoma Plain Dealer News Paper Article - 1901 This newspaper article describes John Bridges tracking bank robbers into Texas. This was a story that has been handed down from generation to generation in the family. This newspaper article is the proof that it happened, and that John Simpson Bridges lived in the Altus OK area in 1901.
Bloody Knife Clenny Rhea would make a yearly trip to the Little Big Horn Battlefield monument. She said that her Uncle's name was inscribed on it. The only Indian names inscribed on the monument were guides used by Custer. In comparing the pictures of those scouts, only one even bears a passing family resemblance. James A Bridges and Michael L Bridges both could pass for brothers of Bloody Knife!
Chronicles of Old Navajoe This is a document which describes the area around Altus OK, specifically the Indian reservation and the tribes which lived there in 1901.