CONTENTS OF VOLUME I
CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTORY...............................................................1
CHAPTER II
THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE.....................................................11
CHAPTER III
BOUNDARIES OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA........................................12
CHAPTER IV
ORIGIN OF THE INDIAN COUNTRY...............................................23
CHAPTER V
THE INDIAN COUNTRY A REFUGE OF BARBARISM...................................37
CHAPTER VI
REMOVAL OF THE INDIANS.....................................................49
CHAPTER VII
THE INTERCOURSE ACT OF 1834 AND PROGRESS OF
THE INDIAN TRIBES..............76
CHAPTER VIII
THE INDIANS AND THE CIVIL WAR..............................................85
CHAPTER IX
ORGANIZATION OF AN INDIAN TERRITORY AND CONSOLIDATION
OF THE TRIBES.......113
CHAPTER X
THE TREATIES OF 1866......................................................122
CHAPTER XI
REALIGNMENT OF INDIAN BOUNDARIES AND REMOVAL
OF INDIANS FROM OTHER STATES TO
STATES TO THE INDIAN TERRITORY......................................132
CHAPTER XII
REVIEW OF WESTWARD EXPANSION..............................................143
CHAPTER XIII
THE CATTLE INDUSTRY AND INDIAN TERRITORY..................................147
CHAPTER XIV
THE WHITE INTRUSION.......................................................150
CHAPTER XV
THE FIRST RAILROADS.......................................................157
CHAPTER XVI
THE ACT OF 1871 AND CHANGE OF INDIAN POLICY...............................162
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CHAPTER XVII
ORGANIZED INVASION........................................................169
CHAPTER XVIII
CAPTAIN PAYNE AND HIS SUCCESSORS..........................................184
CHAPTER XIX
NO MAN'S LAND AND "CIMARRON TERRITROY"....................................202
CHAPTER XX
OPENING OF OKLAHOMA.......................................................205
CHAPTER XXI
FOUNDING OF CITIES AND ESTABLISHMENT OF LAW
AND ORDER.....................216
CHAPTER XXII
ORGANIZATION OF OKLAHOMA TERRITORY........................................268
CHAPTER XXIII
EXPANSION OF OKLAHOMA TERRITORY; CESSION AND
OPENING OF INDIAN
RESERVATIONS.......................................................291
CHAPTER XXIV
LANDS IN SEVERALTY........................................................313
CHAPTER XXV
THE DAWES COMMISSION......................................................321
CHAPTER XXVI
THE STATEHOOD MOVEMENT....................................................337
CHAPTER XXVII
THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND PROHIBITION........................................362
CHAPTER XXVIII
OKLAHOMA'S HERITAGE.......................................................381
APPENDIX..................................................................394
CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA.....................................414
