Big Pasture
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Big Pasture
When Kiowa - Comanche - Apache lands in Oklahoma
opened to white settlement 1901. There were 505,000
acres reserved as grazing lands. This area became known
as Big Pasture most of region leased for cattle ranching.
Because of soil's fertility, white people sought opening of
Big Pasture to settlement and farming. Congress passed
Act, signed by President Theodore Roosevelt June 5,
1906, providing such opening. Beginning December 10,
1906, farm lands and town lots sold to highest bidders on
sealed bid basis. Bids opened starting March 15, 1907.
Was the last big land opening in Oklahoma.
Within one year's time 2,337 families living in Big Pasture
area. Eschiti and Kell, competing towns, combined in 1908
to found Grandfield.
Only few miles from here, April of 1905, famous wolf hunt
was held led by President Theodore Roosevelt.
Captain R. B. March and troops, with Lt. George B.
McClellan second in command, passed short distance
north of this point 1852 on way to find source of Red River.
Oklahoma Historical Society 1962 -
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