Run of '89 South Boundary

The name Unassigned Lands came into wide use in 1879, when Elias C. Boudinot, who was Cherokee, wrote in the Chicago Times that this central tract, assigned to none of the removed nations, could and should be settled by white people. Treaties had already fixed its edges: the Cherokee Outlet on the north, the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands on the west, and here on the south the Chickasaw Nation, established in 1837. The tract covered about 1,887,796 acres, some 2,950 square miles, and ceased to exist as such when Congress created Oklahoma Territory on May 2, 1890.

What the plaque says

Run of '89 South Boundary Canadian River was south line of "Old Oklahoma" opened by Run of April 22, 1889, at 12 o'clock noon. At this hour, riders forded the river crossing near Silver City (north 2 miles) on the Chisholm Trail, and entered the wide, new land to stake homestead claims. Oklahoma Historical Society and State Highway Commission 1959

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum — 21 mi
  The outdoor memorial and museum on the site of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, where 168 people were killed at 9:02 a.m. on April 19, 1995, shaped by the families and survivors.
• First Americans Museum — 22 mi
  The museum of the 39 First American nations in Oklahoma today, on the Oklahoma River, with galleries shaped by each nation, Smithsonian objects brought home and a 90-foot mound.
• Historic Fort Reno — 22 mi
  The Army post beside the Cheyenne and Arapaho agency at Darlington, from which troops chased the Northern Cheyenne north in 1878, later a remount station and a prisoner-of-war camp.
• Southern Plains Indian Museum — 28 mi
  A free federal museum in Anadarko, open since the late 1940s, showing the clothing, shields, cradleboards and art of the Kiowa, Comanche, Wichita, Caddo, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Delaware and Apache nations.

More markers nearby

• Chisholm Trail — 15 mi
• Council Grove — 17 mi
• Run of '89 West Boundary — 19 mi
• Delmar Garden — 20 mi