President Theodore Roosevelt arrived by train in Frederick, Oklahoma, on April 5, 1905, to join famed wolf hunter Jack “Catch ‘em Alive” Abernathy on a wolf hunting expedition. More than 5,000 excited citizens packed the streets of downtown Frederick to catch a glimpse of the President and hear his speech. At camp on Deep Red Creek at Panthers Springs, Isadore, Oklahoma Territory, Roosevelt and Abernathy were joined by Comanche Chief Quanah Parker, Territorial Governor Thomas Ferguson, Burk Burnett, and Guy Wagoner of the Wagoner Ranch. During the five-day hunt in the then unopened Big Pasture, seventeen wolves were captured. Roosevelt and Abernathy forged a lifelong friendship during the outing, and when Roosevelt departed on April 13, 1905, he promised Oklahoma would soon be a state. The only state admitted to the Union during Roosevelt’s presidency was Oklahoma on November 16, 1907.