SUPPLEMENTAL OKLAHOMA HISTORY/GEOGRAPHY LESSON An 1895 map of Oklahoma (as well as most other states) is available at the following: http://www.livgenmi.com/1895.htm This map shows counties for Oklahoma Territory and Indian Nations for Indian Territory. Towns, military posts, railroads, rivers, etc., are also shown on the map. Oklahoma Territory (basically the western half of Oklahoma) consisted of the following: Beaver, Blaine, Canadian, Cleveland, Day, "D", "G", Garfield, Grant, Greer, "I", Kay, Kingfisher, Lincoln, Logan, Noble, Oklahoma, Pawnee, Payne, Pottawatomie, Roger Mills, Washita, Woods, and Woodward counties. In addition to the above counties three tracts of Indian lands were also in Oklahoma Territory as follows: 1) Kiowas, Comanches and Apaches 2) Osages 3) Kansas Indian Territory (basically the eastern half of Oklahoma) consisted of the following subdivisions: Semnoles, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, Cherokees, Quapaws, Peorias, Ottawas, Shawnees, Wyandottes and Senecas. Greer county may not have been officially part of Oklahoma Territory until the Supreme Court action of 1896, but map makes considered it a part of Oklahoma Territory in 1895 when the above referenced atlas was printed. By the way, to set the record straight the Okies in Greer County ran off the texans because they wore 10 gallon hats! ;-) Ron Recer Edmond, OK In a message dated 5/11/99 11:59:36 AM Central Daylight Time, schimmel@northlink.com writes: > YOUR OKLAHOMA HISTORY LESSON > by Myra Vanderpool Gormley <myravg@prodigy.net> > > > Between 1889 and 1907 what is now the State of Oklahoma was two > territories: Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory. Earlier, > from 1886 to 1889, this area was all called Indian Territory. > > The OKIT pertains to political and land divisions, not tribal > designations. Indian Territory (1889-1907) contained Cherokee > Nation, Creek Nation, Choctaw Nation, Chickasaw Nation and > Seminole Nation. Within these Nations were counties (just to > confuse present-day researchers), many of which no longer exist. > Oklahoma Territory in 1890 had the following Indian > jurisdictions: Osage, Kaw (alias Kansas), Nez Perce, Ponca, Otoe > and Missouri, Pawnee, Remnant of Cherokee Outlet [not part of the > Cherokee Nation, but lands this nation sold to the U.S.], Iowa, > Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, Pottawatomie, Cheyenne and Arapaho, > Wichita, Kiowa, Comanche and Apache. Additionally there was the > area (now the Oklahoma Panhandle) called "No Man's Land" but that > was not a political division, simply an unassigned area of land. > To add a bit more confusion to the political history, Texas > organized an area in what's now the southwest corner of Oklahoma > as Greer County. It was attached to Oklahoma following a decision > of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1896, when the Okies there refused > to wear 10-gallon hats and be called Texans ....... > (are you paying attention?).