Run of '89 North Boundary

Many who waited on this line had crossed the Cherokee Outlet under escort. The crowd massed at Caldwell, Kansas, won permission to start on April 18, and troops led their wagon trains south over muddy trails. That Caldwell company, some ten thousand farmers, cowboys and old soldiers in buggies, wagons and on horseback, made its last camp at Buffalo Springs. On Easter Sunday, the day before the run, they played baseball, ran foot races and held religious services, and after dark the old army call "Oh, Joe, here's your mule" passed from bed to bed.

What the plaque says

Run of '89 North Boundary At the opening of "Old Oklahoma," April 22, 1889, this was the north line for the Run starting at 12 o'clock noon. Prairies and hills in the 2,000,000 acre tract, south, were peopled by tens of thousands, homes were planted and tent cit- ies sprang up before nightfall. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1952

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center — 16 mi
  The Oklahoma Historical Society's Enid museum of the September 1893 run into the Cherokee Outlet, with the town's original land office among the old buildings out back.
• The Chisholm — 22 mi
  Kingfisher's farming and ranching museum on the Chisholm Trail's stage branch, with a heritage village and Horizon Hill, the mansion a territorial governor built for a capital that never came.

More markers nearby

• Cherokee Strip — steps away
• Buffalo Springs — 3.5 mi
• Massacre of Pat Hennessey — 3.7 mi
• Roy V. Cashion — 3.7 mi