This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/HaB.2ACI/301.1 Message Board Post: The people on the list of First Land Owners are not necessarily the ones who made the run for the land. My grandfather is on the list and he did not make the run. . . he bought the land in 1899. The List of First Land Owners was part of a promotion put on by the Chandler newspaper and/or Historical Society in 1903 and is only a list of the people who owned the land in 1903. The county clerk's office at the court house in Chandler has all the land records -- we found the deed for the land my grandfather bought in 1899 and I believe that they have all records dating back to 1891. You'll be able to find the original records there to ascertain when your ancestors obtained title to the land Go to http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/twpmaps/lincoln.html and there are township maps of Lincoln county, showing the section/range. The sections and ranges are the same now as they were in 1900.