Sometimes you go to have a little fun, and you come up with a good resource. I looked in the WPA index for The Cherokee Strip Stockman's Association and stopped jotting articles to look up at 10--there are many many more listed in the index. I went to the Microfilm drawyers where "The Cheyenne Transporter" Newspapers were kept. (this was the one with the most mentions in the WPA index) WHAT A WONDERFUL NEWSPAPER!! This is a gem of an early newspaper, and no wonder, all those tired cowboys looking for news of loved ones back home, wanting to know how the drives are going. You can almost see it all ragged and dusty in the back pocket of some one's trousers, he takes it out, leaned up against his horse as he watches the cattle cross the Cherokee Strip....and begins to search for news from home. ANYONE who has family that was in the drives should search this paper. WONDERFUL tidbits and bio notes. FANTASTIC obits! Super dupereeno articles about range life AND in a GOOD state of preservation on Microfilm!!! All this in a widely read VERY EARLY (1880 - 1900) paper (follow the cattle trail from Texas up through the center of what is now Oklahoma into Kansas and there you have the circulation of this paper!! Oh it was thrilling to read even little portions of it!! My goodness, I almost forgot...the paper is very INDIAN sympathetic, in fact I did not look at it close enough today, but for all I know the editor was and Indian. (who was that guy in early history....he came from GA where he ran the paper and started the first Indian paper here....have to look that up) Anyway, I am going to ask if the leases are kept in Indian Archives. This is a possibility. I copied just one article pertaining to the Cherokee Strip Stock Association if anyone wants it. Nalora