THE SETTLEMENT OF OKLAHOMA. 
SOLON J. BUCK, A. 
Assistant in American History in the University of Wisconsin. 
(With Plates IX-XIV.) 
PHYSIOGRAPHY. 
The story of the Indian has been virtually the same from 
the settlement of Jamestown in 1607 to the present time. 
Slowly but gradually his territory has diminished before the 
advance of the white man, hungry for land, until in the year 
1889 the domain of the American Indian, which once included 
our whole country, had come to comprise merely the so-called 
Indian Territory, a district slightly smaller than Hie state of 
Kansas and immediately south of it, together with a number of 
smaller reservations scattered through the western states. It 
is this Indian Territory which will probably constitute the fu¬ 
ture state of Oklahoma, and the western half of which, to u 
gether with the former Public Land Strip or “Ko Man’s 
Land” north of the Texan panhandle, constitutes the present 
territory of Oklahoma. 
The territory of Oklahoma lies between the parallels of thirty- 
four and thirty-seven degrees north latitude, and between nine¬ 
ty-six and one hundred degrees west longitude, excepting 
Beaver county, which, thirty-five miles Avide and one hundred 
and sixty miles long, stretches to the one hundred and third 
parallel west longitude. In latitude it corresponds with 
Tennessee and in longitude with central Kansas and Texas. 
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