Run of '92
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Run of '92
East boundary of Indian country
--98' W longitude, west of this line lay the land of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Each member of their two tribes had been alloted, 160 acres before the surplus land was opened to settlers, AT noon April 19, 1892, the ran west from this line for homesteads. Gov. A.J. Seay of Oklahoma Ty., was living at Kingfisher. His grave is near.
Oklahoma Historical Society
49-1995
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