Pea Ridge National Military Park to present a special program “Elias C. Boudinot: Lawyer, Newspaper Editor, and Lobbyist” on Friday, November 17, from 6 - 7 p.m.

News Release Date:
November 5, 2023

Contact:Shelley Todd, 479-451-8122

Pea Ridge National Military Park to present a special program "Elias C. Boudinot: Lawyer, Newspaper Editor, and Lobbyist" on Friday, November 17, from 6 - 7 p.m.

Pea Ridge National Military Park invites the public to attend a program on the life of Elias C. Boudinot on Friday, November 17, from 6 - 7 p.m. in the park's Visitor Center auditorium. Boudinot served in the 2nd Cherokee Mounted Rifles under the command of his uncle, Colonel Stand Watie, and in 1862 was elected to serve as a delegate in the Confederate States House of Representatives for the Indian Territory. After the war, Boudinot lobbied for citizenship for Indigenous Peoples, was instrumental in establishing Oklahoma as a state, lobbied for the railroads, and served as a lawyer in Fort Smith trying cases before Judge Isaac Parker.

For more information, please call 479-451-8122.

Pea Ridge National Military Park preserves and commemorates the March 7-8, 1862, battle that helped Union forces maintain physical and political control of the state of Missouri. Administered by the National Park Service, the 4,400-acre battlefield is located 10 miles north of Rogers, just off US Highway 62.

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