Cherokee Strip (Okla. and Kan.) -- History

Scope and Contents From the File: An artificial collection that consists of materials pertaining to Oklahoma and Oklahomans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is not part of any other collection.The Oklahoma Collection subsumes the old Oklahoma Ephemera, Oklahoma Historical Photos and Docs and Oklahoma Maps collections. Ephemera was a remnant of the McFarlin Reference Department's vertical files, the larger portion having been sent to the Tulsa City-County Library, which was kept during the late 1940s...

Scope and Contents The DeWitt Lipe - Cherokee Strip Papers consist of autographs, autograph transcriptions, and typescript letters and documents of DeWitt Lipe, Treasurer of the Cherokee Nation. In general, the papers related to the Cherokee Nation's taxation and licensing requirements of Texas stockmen who grazed cattle on Indian lands west of the Arkansas River, known as the Cherokee Strip, on their way to the Kansas stockyards. Also included in the papers are various acts and resolutions relating to the...

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Joe Wiedeman of Caldwell, Kansas was a member of of the "Old Time Cherokee Strip Cowpuncher’s Association" (as wella s member 433 of the Cherokee Strip Cowpuncher’s Association). To be eligible as a member of this association, it was neccessary to have worked as a cow puncher prior to 1893.

Included in the papers is Wiedeman's membership card, a roster of the association of 1937, and an "Anti-Horse Thief Association" certificate.

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View of the historical monument erected to mark the old headquarters of the U Ranch, established in 1870 by Major Andrew Drumm. The ranch was comprised of 150,000 acres of Indian land in the Cherokee Strip. Momument is located north of Ingersoll.