A Gazetteer of Indian Territory

A Gazetteer of Indian Territory (U.S. Geological Survey No. 248, Series F, Geography, 44); by Henry Gannett; 70 pp; 5.5x8.5; Paperback;; Published: 1905, Reprinted: 2008; ISBN: 9780806352619; Item # CF9861D Students of Native American genealogy will welcome the re-publication of Henry Gannett's Gazetteer of Indian Territory, first published in 1905. Gannett, geographer for the U.S. Geological Survey, oversaw the publication of the Gazetteer between the Oklahoma Land Rushes of 1889 to 1895 and Oklahoma's admission as the 46th state in 1907. Indian Territory refers to those remaining southwest lands that had become home, primarily, to the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chocktaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole) following their removal from the southeastern states in 1833. (Small reservations of Quapaw, Peoria, Modoc, Ottawa, Wyandot, and Shawnee dotted the northwestern corner of the territory.) Indian Territory is bounded on the north by Kansas, on the east by Arkansas, on the south by