Pancanula or Pauchunla or Paucaunla or Pa...whatever in old Panola County, Chickasaw Nation

This might be Pancanula as mentioned in the May 1899 Sunday Gazetteer (Denison, Grayson County, Texas) that was apparently Pauchunla in old Panola County, Chickasaw Nation (Library of Congress).

For my day job, I get to sift through maps, census figures, and newspapers. Often in my searches, I come across an item unrelated to my day job's topic, but completely relevant to the history of the Red River Valley... like this little mystery.

Now, I've been researching the Red River Valley for 20 years and I know there's always more to discover. However, I was a bit surprised when I came upon this letter to the editor, written for the Denison Sunday Gazetteer in May 1899. Magnus Good wrote about putting "up a drug store" in a "new, thriving, up-to-date town" named Pancanula, Chickasaw Nation (then, Indian Territory). Huh, I wondered... where is Pancanula? I'd never heard of it. It's not on current maps, and it's not mentioned in the Oklahoma History Center's archives.

I know that this area of the Chickasaw Nation was Panola County at one point, so I thought... maybe Mr. Good had misspelled Panola? But this is a very lucid letter, so I had to discount that hair-brained theory.

Then, the Library of Congress came to the rescue once again. I looked at this 1900 map of the Chickasaw Nation and, Bob's your Uncle, I found Pancanula! But it's spelled Pauchunla. I think... darn that Meridian Line in the way. Link the map is here: https://www.loc.gov/item/2007627495/

Isn't it insane that a town, built by Willie Kemp (from a prominent Chickasaw family) with "two physicians and two ministers, a fine instrumental band and a pebating [SIC] club" with soft water "of the best quality" and "not a woman or child in the town" is now completely GONE? I think it was absorbed/ moved in favor of Achille (Bryan County, Oklahoma), established around 1910.

What do you think? Maybe the problem was the lack of women?

A May 1899 letter to the editor by Magnus Good in the Denison Sunday Gazetteer (Denison, Grayson County, Texas) describes a town in Chickasaw Nation named Pancanula.

The dry goods store at Pancanula (sp?) comes from Paul Grimes, who gave his permission to share it. It was originally posted on the FB group "Achille, Kemp, Hendrix, Yuba, Red River, Bryan County, Oklahoma History." Note the lack of women in the picture (who didn't live here, according to the newspaper article posted above).

The back of t the photograph, graciously shared by Paul Grimes, introduces yet another way to spell the town.