American Auto Trail-Kansas City Southern Railway (Stapp to Heavener OK)

This American auto trail follows the path of the Kansas City Southern Railway in southeastern Oklahoma. The travel route begins just east of Stapp and following U.S. Highways 59 and 270 north to Heavener.

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Endnotes:
1) Oklahoma, A Guide to the Sooner State; University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK; 1941
2) “Oklahoma, The National Scenic Byways Program”; Scenic America; https://www.scenic.org/wp-content/upl...
3) “Mountain Pass Scenic Byway”; Federal Highway Association; https://fhwaapps.fhwa.dot.gov/bywaysp...
4) Tripp, Jaclyn; “Weird History: JFK dedicated this road in the Ouachita Mountains in 1961”; KTALnews.com; April 21, 2024; https://www.ktalnews.com/tour-of-town...
5) Veenendaal, Augustus Jr.; “Texas, Oklahoma and Eastern Railroad”; Oklahoma Historical Society; August 1, 2018; https://www.okhistory.org/publication...
6) Shirk, George; Oklahoma Place Names; University of Oklahoma Press, Norman and London; 1974
7) Thoburn, Joseph; A Standard History of Oklahoma, Volume 2; The American Historical Society, Chicago and New York, 1916; https://www.google.com/books/edition/...
8) Ware, Kevin and Marston, Richard; “Kiamichi Mountains”; Oklahoma Historical Society; January 15, 2010; https://www.okhistory.org/publication...
9) Richards, W.B.; The Oklahoma Red Book, Volume 2; Press of Tulsa Daily Democrat, Tulsa, 1912; https://www.google.com/books/edition/...