The farming town of Lawton in south-western Oklahoma is one of the towns that grew up over night. In Fort Sill the Apache Geronimo spent the last years of his life as a prisoner; he is buried in the adjoining cemetery. The Museum of the Great Plains has a varied collection of material on life in frontier days.
The Museum of Great Plains in Lawton features natural history exhibits, a fur-trading fort and a train depot with locomotive. The museum contains an artifact collection including over 570,000 primary documents and 80,000 images.
Address: Museum of the Great Plains, 601 NW Ferris Avenue, Lawton, OK 73507-5443, United States
Phone: 1 (580) 581-3460, Fax: 1 (580) 581-3458