400 markers now remind Sooners of history behind Chisholm Trail

The Journal Record | September 22, 1997| | Copyright

YUKON -- Seven years ago, Enid resident Robert Klemme set out to help America remember an important link to its past.

He designed 200-pound markers and lugged them to particular spots largely by himself to mark the Chisholm Trail. Each marker, 7 feet high and 6 inches square, bears the legend "Chisholm Trail" in bold black lettering.

Now 71, Klemme was among the 500 or more people gathered in Yukon on Friday under the blazing late summer sun to place the last of 400 posts marking the Chisholm Trail's path through Oklahoma. "I'm going to have to think of another project," Klemme joked. The ...

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