What were the areas of Oklahoma Territory when T.B. Ferguson was governor of the Territory? As in previous articles, T. B. and Elva Ferguson participated in two land runs: 1889 in Central Oklahoma https://fergusonhomemuseum.org/fergusons-and-the-land-run-of-1889/and...
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...