OPENING OF KIOWA-COMANCHE-APACHE AND WICHITA RESERVATIONS. OKLAHOMA. 1901
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway. OPENING OF KIOWA-COMANCHE-APACHE AND WICHITA RESERVATIONS. OKLAHOMA. 1901. 24 pgs., map titled OUTLINE MAP OF OKLAHOMA TERRITORY. Information concerning homes for homeseekers, Oklahoma observations including a agricultural table for the year 1900, water supply, Who May Enter, How To Secure a Homestead, Opportunities for Everyone, etc. It is interesting that “there are three methods of securing these lands: First, by entry; second, by settlement; third (confined to veterans of the Civil and Spanish-American Wars), by filing a declaratory statement.”
The land being offered to homeseekers was: “The reservation at present occupied by the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache tribe of Indians is situated in the extreme southwestern part of Oklahoma Territory, being bounded on the south by Texas, on the west by Greer County, on the north by Washita County and the Wichita reservation, and on the east by the Chickasaw Nation. ...The area is 4,638 square miles, and it contains 2,968,893 acres”
Vg cond. Not found on OCLC.