Search results
The seat of Kingfisher County, Kingfisher lies forty-five miles northwest of Oklahoma City at the intersection of U.S. Highway 81 and State Highways 3 and 33. It is also at the confluence of Kingfisher Creek and Uncle John's Creek.
The Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture. KINGFISHER v. WOOD AND FOSSETT (1890). Prior to the Land Run of 1889 a stage station known as King Fisher (Kingfisher) existed along the Chisholm Trail near Kingfisher Creek in the area that became known as the Oklahoma District (Unassigned Lands).
The story of Native Americans in the U.S. is one of vibrant, complex societies evolving over thousands of years, deeply connected to the land. Initial periods of trade and cooperation with European settlers gave way to encroachment and conflict as colonial ambition clashed with tribal autonomy.
A huge area in what is now central Oklahoma was literally "peopled" by non-Native Americans overnight. The city is situated on a part of the Chisholm Trail, over which millions of Texas longhorns were driven to railheads in Kansas in the years immediately following the Civil War.
Feb 6, 2017 · Created after the Civil War to supply the northeast with badly needed beef, the trail began as drovers followed a pre-war existing cattle pathway in Texas, ventured across Indian Territory using Jesse Chisholm’s wagon road, and continued north to Kansas’s depots.
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory, which had earlier been assigned to the Creek and Seminole peoples. The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of the present-day US state of ...
By setting the stage for non-Indian settlement of other sections of Indian Territory, the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 quickly led to the creation of Oklahoma Territory under the Organic Act of 1890 and ultimately to the formation of the forty-sixth state of the Union, Oklahoma, in 1907.
