Hello All, I ran into this while going through some old files of mine. This is just the introduction to the list of names. There are a lot of names. Thought I would ask first. Is any one interested in this list? PJ Wallace ________________________________________________________ This is a list of names of those who claimed land in the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893. These names were recovered from a computer database created before DOS. It has been hand edited into an ASCII format. Please keep in mind that this should only serve as a reference. It is unknown how complete or accurate this record is. The city and state given are where the people came from. It was Sept. 16, 1893, the day of the largest land "run" in history, the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlement. 15,000 people had gathered along the boundaries for many days and were ready for the gunshot at noon to start them on their quest for claims, every acre was claimed by nightfall. Land offices for the filing of claims were at Perry, Enid, Alva and Woodward. Seven counties had been designated in the Strip at that time, with letter names K,L,M,N,O,P and Q with county names to be chosen later by the settlers. K became KAY L became Grant M became Woods N became Woodward O became Garfield P became Noble Q became Pawnee At statehood the 7 counties became 10 1/2 counties, as ALFALFA was created from part of Woods Co., Harper from part of Woodward Co., and the north half of ELLIS was also from part of Woodward Co. MAJOR was from the southern part of Woods Co. In this reference O.T. stands for Oklahoma Territory. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]