Run of '89 West Boundary

West of this line lay the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation, and its turn came three years later. After a census and 160-acre allotments to its people, the remaining 3.5 million acres were sold to the United States for $1.5 million. Benjamin Harrison proclaimed the opening on April 12, 1892, and on April 19 a second run crossed into country that became Blaine, Custer, Dewey, Washita and Roger Mills counties. Fort Reno's cavalry signaled the start. The Kiowa chief Big Tree said the settlers were as many as the blades of grass on the Washita in the spring.

What the plaque says

Run of '89 West Boundary At the opening of "Old Oklahoma," April 22, 1889, this was the west line for the Run starting at 12 o'clock noon. Prairies and hills in the 2,000,000 acre tract, east, were peopled by tens of thousands, homes were planted and tent cities sprang up before nightfall.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Historic Fort Reno — 4.7 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.
• 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.
• Oklahoma City National Memorial & Museum — 25 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.

More markers nearby

• Darlington — 3.8 mi
• Fort Reno — 3.8 mi
• Chisholm Trail — 11 mi
• Run of '89 South Boundary — 19 mi