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In an attempt to modify the wild scrambles and disregard for law and order that characterized earlier land openings, U.S. officials resorted to a more civilized method in 1901.
“The greatest of all the free land openings has been the last one,” declared a writer in the August 10, 1901, issue of Harper’s Weekly. For more than a year people had camped in anticipation at the margins of what was officially called the “Kiowa, Comanche and Apache, and Wichita lands” in southwestern Oklahoma.
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