Try this link: http://www.ku.edu/heritage/towns/strip.html The Cherokee Strip 70243.343@compuserve.com wrote: > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: Dauphin, Sattler, Saddler > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Zl.2ADI/114 > > Message Board Post: > > My g-grandfather Edward F. Dauphin moved to Douglas, Kansas in about 1876 from Illinois. I need a source of information for the Douglas, Kansas area. Can someone help? Does anyone know what 'Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma' pertains to, one of his sons particapated in it in about 1892. Several of the children moved back to Illinois by 1900.