End of the Trail Statue & Texaco Station

325 W. Gary Blvd., Clinton, OK
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This is a copy of James Earle Fraser's famous 1894 "End of the Trail" sculpture. A 25 foot tall 1915 version, sculpted in plaster, is on display at the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City. This bronze statue stands where a small gas station shown below stood until about 2017.

This little gas station stood where the End of the Trail statue stands now on the corner of W. Gary Blvd. and 4th Street (Hwy. 183), that's where one alignment of Route 66 turns south. I've seen this station referred to as both an Eason Oil Company station and as a Champlin station, but it was a Texaco station from 1941 to at least the late 1950s. It's was right up tight next to the 1947 Littlejohn dealership building. Having a gas station and car dealership located together like this seems to have been a fairly common practice years ago.

The large building next to the statue was originally the 1947 Littlejohn Motor Company Dodge - Plymouth dealership building, it is now a U. S. Veterans Clinic. By 1952 Littlejon had switched to selling Buicks here. In 1957 the building was home to the Armstrong Motor Company who sold Pontiac and Buick cars as well as GMC Trucks. By late 1963 the building housed Martin-Webb Motors, an Imperial, Chrysler Dodge, Plymouth dealership. All of which means that for an automobile dealersuip building it has a not uncommon history, the building stand and the dealers and brands come and go.

Photo(s): 2013, 2019