This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/SaB.2ACI/1641.1 Message Board Post: Title 4, Chapter 5, Section 98 of the Oklahoma Statutes reads as follows: All domestic animals shall be restrained by the owner thereof at all times and seasons of the year from running at large in the State of Oklahoma. Damages sustained by reason of such domestic animals trespassing upon lands of another shall be recovered in a manner provided by law. For the purpose of this act, domestic animals shall include cattle, horses, swine, sheep, goats, exotic livestock and all other animals not considered wild . The term "domestic animals" shall not include domestic house pets or feral hogs. This law was initially enacted in 1965, with an effective date of 1 January 1966. Thus, it wasn't so much as when "open range" ended in McCurtain County as it was when it ended (by statute) in the State. McCurtain County doesn't have much open range left anyway, unless you count the millions of acres owned by either Weyerheuser Company (WEYCO) and the US Forestry. On the WEYCO lands, we have still have roaming herds of what are called "free range" cattle, but ... this is essentially private land. The laws for encountering as cow are slightly different than those for "open range" cattle. Maybe this helps a bit ... or gives a starting point.