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"No Home on the Range": The Miller Family's Great Swindle of Indian Lands (open access)

"No Home on the Range": The Miller Family's Great Swindle of Indian Lands

Article describes the unfair methods the Miller Family, owners of the 101 Ranch, employed to acquire land in the Cherokee Outlet from the Western Cherokee Indians who had received it from the United States government in 1928. Jo L. Wetherilt Behrens recounts the details of the various schemes and ruses the Millers employed to take advantage of their neighboring tribes.
Date: Summer 2004
Creator: Behrens, Jo Lea Wetherilt
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History