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This sepia colored photograph shows a "boomer" camp on the banks of the Walnut River in Arkansas City, Kansas. The "boomers" were white settlers who were attempting to settle in the Indian Territory of Oklahoma. Some of the "boomers" would camp near the Kansas and Oklahoma border waiting to enter the territory to claim land that had not been assigned to Indian Tribes. Many of the settlers believed that the unassigned land was in the public domain under the Homestead Act of 1862.
Creator: Mitchell & DeGroff
Date: Between 1886 and 1889
Item Number: 213828
Call Number: FK2.C10 A.66 *6
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 213828
Collections - Photograph
Date - 1880s
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Federal agencies and programs - Policies and programs - Land - Homestead Act
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - American Indians - Indian lands
Places - Cities and towns - Arkansas City
Places - Counties - Cowley
Places - Other States - Oklahoma
Places - Rivers - Walnut
Thematic Time Period - Cattle Drives, 1867 - 1885
Thematic Time Period - Immigration and Settlement, 1854 - 1890
Type of Material - Photographs
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