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| | HISTORY OF OKLAHOMA TERRITORY (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | Lewis and Clarke visited the Territory in one of their early exploring expeditions, and the prairies and valleys of the Territory were the hunting grounds of the early tribes of Indians, from the earliest time of which there is record of the movements of the aboriginal Americans. |
 | | In June, 1890, the territorial government came into existence, and by the same act of Congress the strip of country known as "No Man's Land," embracing, 3,681,000 acres, was added as Beaver county. |
 | | In September of same year the 1,282,434 acres embraced in the Sauk and Fox, Iowa and Pottawatomie Reservations, in the eastern part of the Territory, were opened to settlement, and the following spring came the 4,397,771 acres of Cheyenne and Arapaho land. |
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