Run of '89 West Boundary

The campers on this line were West Liners. Settlers were allowed to cross the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation to start from its border west of Kingfisher, and drought-stricken families from the Texas Panhandle and No Man's Land gathered here, with troops posted west of town. Those who ran from the Outlet line north of Hennessey were North Liners. Because the opening law capped a townsite at 320 acres, the people who claimed Kingfisher organized two towns, Kingfisher City near the land office and the larger Lisbon to its south, which united on June 14, 1890, as Kingfisher.

What the plaque says

Run of '89 West Boundary On this line--98° W. longitude-- many campers sat by their fires the night before the opening of "Old Oklahoma". The next day at noon on April 22, 1889, many people set out running on foot and by horse for 160 acre land claims in unassigned land east. Oklahoma Historical Society

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• The Chisholm — 1.2 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.
• Historic Fort Reno — 21 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.

More markers nearby

• Run of '92 — steps away
• Kingfisher Stage Station — 1.0 mi
• Historical Society Birthplace — 1.5 mi
• Kingfisher — 1.6 mi