The Fergusons also participated in the 1893 Land Run which opened the Cherokee Outlet and Strip to settlement. The Cherokee Strip is actually the 2.5 mile-wide strip across the top of Oklahoma, the result of a surveying error. The 1893 Run was the fourth and largest...
Continuing the theme of Land openings in which the Fergusons had an important part, this article is about the Cheyenne-Arapaho opening of April 1892. Understand that the Fergusons arrived from Kansas to this area in October 1892, but the opening and the arrival...
We might call April Land Run month as two of the major land runs were in April. Land runs largely shaped Central and western Oklahoma opening land for settlers between 1889 and 1895. The Fergusons participated in the April 1889 run and the September 1893 run in the...