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Oklahoma, the Cherokee Outlet, and Indian reservations established in the state and in the Cherokee Outlet. The Cherokee Outlet, or Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma in the United States. It was a 60-mile-wide (97 km) parcel of land south of the Oklahoma–Kansas border between 96 and 100°W. The Cherokee Outlet ...
Settlers await the opening of the Cherokee Outlet. Waiting for the Strip to open, May 1, 1893. The Land Run itself began at noon on September 16, 1893, with an estimated 100,000 participants hoping to stake claim to part of the 6 million acres and 40,000 homesteads on what had formerly been Cherokee grazing land.
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The Land Run of April 19, 1892, opened the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands. The Land Run of September 16, 1893 was known as the Cherokee Strip Land Run. It opened 8,144,682.91 acres (12,726 square miles or about 3.3 million hectares) to settlement. The land was purchased from the Cherokees. It was the largest land run in U.S. history, four times ...
The Land Run of 1891 was a set of horse races to settle land acquired by the federal government through the opening of several small Indian reservations in Oklahoma Territory. The race involved approximately 20,000 homesteaders , who gathered to stake their claims on 6,097 plots, of 160 acres (0.65 km 2 ) each, of former reservation land.
Most land disputes were settled without bloodshed, although a few took years to resolve. The passage of the Organic Act of 1890 by the United States Congress , signed by 23rd President Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901, served 1889-1893), incorporated the former western Unassigned Lands into the newly organized federal Oklahoma Territory , (which ...
The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center (CSRHC) is a museum in Enid, Oklahoma, that focuses on the history of the Cherokee Outlet and the Land Run of September 16, 1893. Previously named the Museum of the Cherokee Strip, the museum has undergone renovations expanding the museum space to 24,000 square feet. [1]
Efforts to buy the land from the Cherokee began in 1889, but were not concluded until 1893 when Congress authorized the purchase [5] and the land was opened to non-Indian settlement by means of the Cherokee Strip Land Run on September 16, 1893. An estimated 100,000 people raced to claim plots of land. [6] [7]