Run of '92

Cheyenne and Arapaho allottees had taken their 160 acres first and claimed the best land. When the surplus opened, about twenty-five thousand people came, but the proclamation gave only a week's notice, drought gripped the southern plains, the nearest railheads were towns like Kingfisher and Hennessey, and cattlemen had long called the country fit only for grazing. Of 3.5 million acres offered, more than 2.8 million lay unclaimed when the day was over. On June 30, 1892, Governor Seay estimated only 7,600 settlers on the land, which Oklahoma Territory divided into six new counties.

What the plaque says

Run of '92 East boundary of Indian country --98° W. longitude west of this line lay the land of the Cheyenne and Arapaho. Each member of their two tribes had been al- lotted 160 acres before the sur- plus land was opened to settlers at noon April 19, 1892. They ran west from this line for home- steads. Gov. A.J. Seay of Oklahoma Ty. was living at Kingfisher. His grave is near. 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 '89 West Boundary — steps away
• Kingfisher Stage Station — 1.0 mi
• Historical Society Birthplace — 1.5 mi
• Kingfisher — 1.6 mi