Reliving History — Part 3

Third land run opens western Oklahoma

  • This map shows the location of the 1892 land run in western Oklahoma.
  • This map shows Oklahoma Territory after it was opened up to settlement in 1889.
April 12, 1892, President Benjamin Harrison issued his third proclamation declaring that the 4.3 million acres of former Cheyenne and Arapaho territory be opened to settlement, which included Custer County. This came as a result of government issued allotments to individual Native Americans in the previous land run. Even though the U.S. Census Bureau declared the Oklahoma frontier closed in…

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