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	Cherokee Outlet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma, in the United States.
		It was a sixty-mile (97 km) wide strip of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border between the 96th and 100th meridians.
		The Treaty of New Echota, May 23, 1836, gave the land to the Cherokees as a perpetual outlet to travel and hunt in the West.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cherokee_Outlet (440 words)

	AllRefer.com - Cherokee Strip, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Cherokee Strip or Cherokee Outlet, a narrow piece of land in N Oklahoma.
		The area once constituted the western extension of Cherokee Nation lands and was sold to the United States in 1891.
		The Cherokee Strip was included in the Oklahoma Territory and later (1907) became part of the new state.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/CherStrp.html (243 words)

	Map of Cherokee Strip & Cherokee Outlet
		It was a sixty mile wide strip from the 96th meridian west to the 100th meridian.
		This land was given as an assurance to the Cherokee nation of a perpetual outlet west and a free and unmolested use of all the country west.
		This strip of land was held in trust by the United States for the benefit of the Cherokee Nation.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ok/state/outlet/strip.html (467 words)

	Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad, a Brief History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Kansas & Neosho Valley Railroad Company was organized on March 8, 1865 under the general laws of Kansas to build a line from Kansas City south into the Neosho Valley of eastern Kansas, and thence, hopefully, south to the Gulf of Mexico.
		The City of Kansas City immediately voted $200,000 in city bonds to be exchanged for stock of the road, and Johnson and Miami counties in Kansas in November, 1865 voted $200,000 each in aid of the K&NV.
		The Kansas City Clinton & Springfield Railroad was chartered in Missouri on ?, 1884 to build the Missouri portion of the line.
	tacnet.missouri.org /~mgood/clintonrr/kcfsm.html (3350 words)

	CHEROKEE BILL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Cherokee Bill was credited with most of the murders that occurred during the gang's rampage.
		Cherokee Bill continued to be elusive and many lawmen were reluctant to confront him face to face because of his feared reputation as being one of the toughest desperados in the area.
		Maggie was described as being of African and Cherokee descent and was the niece of Ike Rogers' wife.
	www.coax.net /people/lwf/cherokee.htm (3714 words)

	CHEROKEE STRIP
		Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip is one of the few places where the pioneer spirit that settled American is still vibrant enough to experience.
		When the Strip was opened to white settlement, tribes living there -- with the exception of the Nez Perce, who were previously moved to their Oregon homeland -- were sold individual allotments not to exceed 80 acres, half of the allotment amount offered to settlers who made the run.
		Towns, communities and schools throughout Oklahoma's Cherokee Strip celebrate the anniversary of the Land Run on September 16 with festivals, parades, and reenactments of the Race for Land, lest we forget why our ancestors traveled from far and away to stake a claim in history.
	www.bjsbytes.com /chkstrip.htm (1423 words)

	History of the Cherokee Outlet
		The Cherokee Outlet, known generally today as the Cherokee Strip, was a part of lands exchanged by the Cherokees living in North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia for lands in the West.
		Still the Cherokees were not satisfied with the system because they had to depend on the cattlemen for an accurate count.
		At the third meeting, held in March 1883, the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association was organlzed.
	www.bjsbytes.com /garfield/History.htm (1070 words)

	The Real Cherokee Strip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This survey showed the northern boundary of the Cherokee domain to be the southern edge of the Osage Reserved Lands in the territory that became the State of Kansas, i.e., a line 2.46 miles north of the 37th parallel.
		The Cherokees reported the matter to the Secretary of the Interior and asked that the southern boundary of the Kansas Territory be so modified so as to make it coincident with the northern boundary of their lands.
		The Cherokee Outlet is mistakenly called the "Cherokee Strip." The western limit of both tracts was the 100th meridian, otherwise the two areas differed in width and length.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /kansas/history/ckstrip.html (319 words)

	Oklahoma Land Race biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Oklahoma Land Race or the Cherokee Strip Land Run was a land run or land rush that took place on September 16, 1893.
		The land concerned was a 58 mile (93 km) wide strip running for 225 miles (362 km) between southern Kansas and Oklahoma Territory, around 34,000 km².
		The strip, named the Cherokee Outlet, had been granted to them in 1828 as a route to the Indian Territories, other tribes took parts of the strip from the 1860s.
	oklahoma-land-race.biography.ms (282 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Thus the Cherokee outlet was in the form of a rectangular strip lying south of and along the Kansas border, approximately 225 miles east and west, and 60 miles north and south.
		In 1883 a cattlemen's association with governmental approval leased the Cherokee outlet from the Cherokees for five years at a rental of $100,000.00 a year; and in 1888 a second lease for five years at $200,000.00 per year was obtained.
		The lumber, of course, was hauled from Ashland, Kansas.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /chronicles/v016/v016p326.html (3732 words)

	CHEROKEE OUTLET
		All of the area later known as the Cherokee Outlet was acquired from France in 1803 in the Louisiana Purchase.
		In 1828, a perpetual outlet west, in addition to other lands, was ceded to the Cherokees under a treaty between the western segments of the tribe the federal Government.
		At the conclusion of the Civil War, the United States Government and the Cherokee Nation entered into a treaty dated July 19, 1866, under which the Indians gave permission for friendly tribes to be settled on the Outlet.
	www.pioneerwomanmuseum.com /cherokeeoutlet.htm (584 words)

	ITsketches
		In 1878 he left Texas and moved to Cherokee Nation, where he has been since residing, most of his time being devoted to teaching, for which he is eminently fitted, as he is undoubtedly one of the best educated men in the nation.
		On his return to the Cherokee Nation, he was appointed principal teacher of the orphan asylum, and in the fall of 1890, a member of the board of education.
		Thomas A. Chandler was born in the Cherokee Nation, July, 1871, the eldest son of B. Chandler, a Tennessean, and Anne Gunter, a Cherokee by blood.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~pennstreet/ITsketches.htm (20518 words)

	LASR - Leisure And Sport Review - Travel, Tourism and Recreation on the Internet
		The Cherokee Strip Museum displays historical exhibits about the Cherokee Outlet as well as German artifacts from a POW camp south of town.
		The Treaty of New Echota (Georgia) in 1835, assured the Cherokee Nation of a "perceptual outlet west, and a free and unmolested use of all the county west of...said seven million acres." thus the Cherokee outlet was created.
		The Cherokee Strip is a strip of ground 2.46 miles wide, all in Kansas, that runs from the Neosho River on the east of the 100th meridian on the west.
	www.lasr.net /pages/county.php?County_ID=OK0617 (633 words)

	Horsley Ranch
		After the Osages and other Plains Indians had moved to reservations on the Cherokee Outlet and the narrow "Cherokee Strip" north of the Kansas border had been ceded to the United States,there still remained 6,344,562 acres of unoccupied Cherokee land west of the 96th meridian.
		The Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association was organized by a group of cattlemen during the years 1880 - 1883.
		There is good evidence that the Cherokee Strip Live Stock Association was willing to purchase the land included in their lease at $3.oo an acre.
	freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com /~billie0w/hr.htm (591 words)

	Cherokee Outlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		In part, the agreement defined land known as the Cherokee Outlet and provided an assurance to the Cherokee Nation of a "perpetual outlet west." The strip of land, running west of the 96th meridian and approximately 57 miles wide, became commonly known as the Cherokee Strip.
		The Cherokee Strip Livestock Association leased the excellent grasslands in the western part of the Outlet from the Cherokee Tribe.
		The opening of the Cherokee Outlet was the fourth, and largest, of Oklahoma's five land runs.
	www.cherokee-strip-museum.org /outlet.htm (249 words)

	Cherokee Strip Museum and Rose Hill School (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		By leasing the excellent grasslands in the Outlet to the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association, the Cherokee made a profit on their western lands.
		Pressure from "boomers" forced the Cherokee to sell the land to the federal government for $8,505,736 or about $1.40 per acre.
		The Cherokee Strip Museum provides an opportunity to explore the remarkable events and people who made-up the history of the Outlet.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /mus-sites/masnum04.htm (449 words)

	INDIAN AFFAIRS: LAWS AND TREATIES. Vol. 1, Laws
		Cherokee strip, in Kansas, residue to be sold.
		Whereas, certain lands in the State of Kansas, known as the Cherokee strip, being a strip of land on the southern boundary of Kansas, some two or three miles wide, detached from the lands patented to the Cherokee Nation by the act known as the Kansas-Nebraska bill,
		The Cherokee Council passed an act December 1, 1877, accepting the conditions and provisions of this act.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /kappler/Vol1/HTML_files/SES0172.html (278 words)

	Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve Legislative History, 1920-1996
		Although the Cherokee Strip concept included 30,000 acres of grassland, NPS staff advised that it was not "true prairie" and worried that the proposal, should it gain momentum, would dilute support for a prairie park in the "choice area" of Osage County, Oklahoma.
		Speaking at the annual meeting of the Kansas Recreation and Park Association, he made it clear that he did not support the concept of a large park focused solely or primarily on preserving an expanse of tallgrass prairie.
		Two months later, STP announced that while it did not exactly oppose the Cherokee Strip Park concept, it was concerned that the tallgrass prairie segment meet the criteria established by earlier NPS studies and therefore recommended a separate national park on the eastern slopes of the Flint Hills in Kansas.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/tapr/tapr_4.htm (1181 words)

	History Of Grant County
		Once owned by the Cherokee Indians, but never occupied by them, Cherokee Outlet was the first and formal name of what later became popularly known as the Cherokee Strip.
		Boundaries of the Outlet were established in a treaty in 1828 between the western Cherokees and the United States, The term Cherokee Strip appeared in the name Cherokee Strip Livestock Association, formed in 1883 to lease the pasturelands of the Outlet en bloc from the Cherokee Nation.
		Firing of gun shots by patrolling troopers at 12 noon of 16 September 1893 along the borders of the Cherokee Strip signaled the start of the race of thousands of land-seeking settlers to stake claims for a quarter section of land in the Strip.
	genienut.net /history.htm (2315 words)

	The Only Cherokee In The Cherokee Strip
		The Cherokee Strip Casino a part of the Cherokee owned network of virtual casinos proudly invites you to play the...
		The 1889 Cherokee Strip /Indian territory boundary is now only marked by the Pawnee/Creek County line.
		The Cherokee Strip was opened by Land Runs in 1889.
	www.pafund.com /The-Only-Cherokee-In-The-Cherokee-Strip.html (605 words)

	Cherokee Outlet / Cherokee Strip
		As these hopefuls swarmed the Kansas and Oklahoma Territorial borders, they impatiently waited for the Cherokee Outlet to be opened.
		By the end of the day, farms were established, and the cities of Enid, Perry, Alva, and Woodward had risen out of prairie from the day before.
		Cherokee Strip Land Run People that Registered at the Enid Land Office
	www.rootsweb.com /~itoutlet (433 words)

	Oklahoma Photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The United States guaranteed to the Cherokee Nation that this land would be a perpetual outlet west for tribal hunting grounds, measured 58 miles wide and extending 220 miles along the northern border.
		The cattlemen wanted to fatten their cattle on the rich grasses before taking them to railheads in Kansas so they leased the land from the Cherokee.
		Land hungry settlers viewed the cattlemen's use of the area as a waste of fertile farmland and pressured the government to purchase the Cherokee land from the Cherokee.
	www.glensplace.com /OklahomaPhotos.html (575 words)

	Cherokee Strip
		Tree protection plan stirs debate The proposal includes a buffer strip on I-575 and a goal of no net loss of trees in Cherokee County.
		Old-style hunting is part of old Cherokee Changing times: As development continues, hunters are being pushed farther into the county's northern half, and beyond.
		Motoring: Brave effort for the Cherokee; A stampede of horses under the bonnet keeps the Grand Cherokee Overland up with the elite.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/us/A0909660.html (390 words)

	Arkcity.net: Community - Exhibit celebrates Cherokee Strip Run 09/07/04
		"Cherokee Strip Land Rush: A new Beginning" is funded in part by the Kansas Humanities Council, various individuals and First Intermark.
		From 1991-97, he toured Kansas and neighboring states with the Great Plains Chautauqua, portraying authors Nathaniel Hawthorne and Stephen Crane.
		Sunday at the museum on "Life Before Territory." Thies is an archeologist with the Kansas State Historical Society in Topeka.
	www.arkcity.net /stories/090704/com_0004.shtml (367 words)

	American Melody - Stories 1
		Actor Max Showalter transports the listener back in time to the legendary Oklahoma Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893 in two thrilling and touching family stories.
		"The Run for the Cherokee Strip", a chapter from Max's unpublished family memoirs, tells the story of the Showalter family as they journey into Caldwell, Kansas, on the dramatic day of the Cherokee Strip Land Run.
		"The Dream of the Cherokee Strip", by Kansas journalist Damon Weber, tells of the Weber family's search for a new life in the 19th century American West.
	www.americanmelody.com /stories3.htm (124 words)

	Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum receives $3,500 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		It will have a script that tells the story of the Cherokee Outlet from the Cherokeeís march on the Trail of Tears until the land rush in the Cherokeeís outlet to hunting lands.
		The principal funding for the exhibit is provided by the Kansas Humanities Council, a nonprofit cultural organization promoting understanding of the history, traditions and ideas that shape our lives and build community.
		The Kansas Humanities Council is responsible for aiding organizations in preserving their humanities collections.
	www.winfieldcourier.com /w031115/Thurs3.html (352 words)

	Welcome to the Arkansas City Website!
		Organized in 1966, the Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum began in an effort to preserve the history of the Cherokee Strip Land Rush of September 16, 1893, and the cultures of those who lived in the strip.
		Approximately 21,000 artifacts, pictures and documents are housed in the Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum for exhibit and research.
		The model one-room school house was once a cabin in Portland, Kansas, and belonged to a man who ran in the 1893 Cherokee Strip Land Rush, but never returned.
	www.arkcity.org /index.asp?SID=370 (740 words)

	Lane Family -- Pioneers in Cherokee Strip
		The Chisolm Trail was written into history by the thousands of hoofs of Texas Longhorn cattle driven to Kansas railheads, and by the wheels of lumbering freight wagons, chuck wagons and stage coaches.
		It was estimated that more than 30,000 land seekers were lined up along the Kansas line; 11,000 on the Orlando side; 9,000 along the south side and 5,000 at other points.
		By nightfall it was estimated that 15O,OOO people were in the Strip or along the borders.
	www.fmoran.com /teshks.html (2011 words)

	Dewitt Lipe - Cherokee Strip Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		1:17 AMs draft opinion in favor of the fencing practices of stockmen on Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas River (Cherokee Strip). Author unknown. 2p.
		1:18 Certificate in reference to the election of DeWitt Lipe to the office of Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation. 14 Nov 1895. Approved by Samuel Houston Mayes, Principal Chief, 2 Dec 1895.
		1:20 Application for a Grazing License to hold stock in Cherokee lands west of the Arkansas River by Spencer and Drew [?] of Dodge City, Kansas. 1 Sept 1882.
	www.lib.utulsa.edu /Speccoll/dewit000.htm (735 words)

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