Subject: Cherokee Strip Run.
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 14:29:51 -0500
From: Mary Ann Wortman <trainman@hit.net>
To: Bottorff <bbott@ausbcomp.com>
Dear Bill,
From August 221, 1969, Arkansas City Traveler article.
Phot caption: Just Before the Run. This photograph, taken from an original
glass plate, was taken at the west side of the Chilocco Indian Reservation
by Thomas Croft on Sept. 16, 1893, just before noon. The
original glass plate, along with other glass plates of photos taken that
day, have been given to an Arkansas City woman.
That lady was Mrs. Ira (Lois McAllister) Hinsey. She is now deceased.
She was related to Thomas Croft.
On the wooden platform at noon of Sept. 16, 1893, were W. S. Prettyman,
P. A. Miller, and Thomas Croft, all local photographers. Prettyman left
the platform to make the run, and 16-year-old Croft helped his father, Thomas
Croft, set up the photograph, which Thomas Croft took.
I could be wrong about what happened to glass plate. Keep thinking that
I heard that Lois Hinsey turned them over to the Cherokee Strip Museum when
she worked there. Don't know. Letter from Croft verifying he took the picture
is in file. Hard to read.
Do you need more information?
MAW
Subject: Land rush
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 10:16:49 -0700
From: Linda Willey <boohoo@bogus.com>
To: bbott@ausbcomp.com
I am in the process of writing a book on the Mansfield family to be distributed only to family members at cost. I am wondering if it would be possible for me to include the photo of the folks waiting for the land rush to begin. The following letter was written by my husband's great grandfather:
Dear Hade,
We reached Arkansas City Sunday evening and I stayed all night with Jo
Sulingey. And this morning at three oclock, we was up and started at half
past four to the Booths and stood in line all day. There is the greatest
crowd here today, I have saw for a long time. I did not get any certificate
today. I got home at 7 oclock tonight and went to camp. They said Ross
had a letter for me, but he had gone up town and I did not get to see them.
So I am at Jo's tonight and will go back to the Booths tomorrow and try
and get a certificate. There is none of the rest of our crowd went out
yet. They are discouraged. There is over fifty thousand home seekers on
the Kansas Line but I am going to stay and fight for a claim. Jo's are
all well. My teams are all right, and so am I. If I hold -- It is pretty
hard to (stay) all day in line when the dust is so thick you can't see your
hand three feet from you. I have to pay 5 cents for a drink of water on
the line. It is very dry here but a nice country. So write me right soon.
Your husband
Jim Mansfield
(From Jim Mansfield to his wife, Hade (Ida Mahala), in the Cherokee
Strip land rush. Postmarked: Arkansas City Sept. 15, 1893. The Ross mentioned
must be Ross Miracle. Ralph Allen, (May's husband), John Wright (Becky
Mansfield's husband) and others went. Sulingey should be spelled Soulingney.
Descendants still land owners at Ponca City. Ben
and Leafy went down and worked for him when they were first married. Maybe
he was from Ohio, too.)
(A note of interest - Jim Mansfield was a prisoner at Andersonville Prison and survived in spite of losing around 100 pounds.)
Linda Willey
lindahansenwilley@home.com
History of The Cherokee Strip Livestock Association by Billie Erin Walsh on Ancestry.com
List of Names of some of those who made
the Cherokee Strip Land Rush on September 16, 1893
This document supplied by John Greven <jeg@fullnet.net>
