Summit View Cemetery sits on a rise at the eastern edge of Guthrie, the first capital of Oklahoma Territory. Established in the territorial years, the grounds hold the names of legislators and railroad clerks, sheriffs and bootleggers, the merchants who built Guthrie's brick downtown and the families who farmed the gentle country to the south.
The cemetery is best known to outsiders as the final resting place of Elmer McCurdy — an obscure train robber whose body, after his death in 1911, did not stay buried for sixty-six years. He was returned here in 1977.