Cherokee Outlet facts for kids
The Cherokee Outlet, more often referred to as the Cherokee Strip, was located in what is now the state of Oklahoma, in the United States. It was a sixty-mile (97 km) wide strip of land south of the Oklahoma-Kansas border between the 96th and 100th meridians.
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Oklahoma, the Cherokee Outlet, and Indian reservations established in the state and in the Cherokee Outlet.
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Jesse Chisholm, a mixed-blood Cherokee, pioneered cattle drives through the Cherokee Outlet.
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Most of the cattle drives going north from Texas passed through the Cherokee Outlet.
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Photograph of the land rush by William S. Prettyman who participated in it and served as a mayor of Blackwell
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