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Lease No. 1 (Fenlon) Lease No. 7 (Hunter)
Lease No. 2 (Malaley) 4
\ Lease No. 6 (Evans)
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that state chose to ignore the sanctions against grazing on Indian lands.
As early as i88o herds had been fattened on the grasses of the disputed
area and by 1882 almost one hundred thousand beeves had been brought
to the range. The cattlemen were emboldened by their success in Greer
County and thousands of cattle were taken across the North Fork of the
Red River onto the Kiowa-Comanche Reservation. The government was
momentarily incapable of enforcing its regulations. Because of the con-
flicting claims, officials of the Bureau of Indian Affairs determined that it
would be best not to cloud the issue by attempting to remove the cattle
from Greer County. Moreover, when the Bureau transmitted its desires
to the War Department that the cattle should be removed from the Kiowa-
Comanche Reservation Major Guy V. Henry, the commander of Fort Sill,
replied that to comply with the request two posts would have to be estab-
lished along the Red River and that, "even then . . . the duty cannot be
thoroughly done."" Lieuteent General Philip H. Sheridan, commanding
the Military Division of the Missouri, asserted that, "I think the troops
should not be compelled to herd cattle. . t."2 Sheridan, who studied
bluntness with Generals Grant and Sherman, also noted that he believed
that cattlemen who were willing to lease lands from the Indians should
1 Major Guy V. Henry to Brevet Major General John Pope, March 6, F882, ibid., p. 6o.
12 Lieutenant General Philip Sheridan to Robert T. Lincoln, March 9, 1882, ibid., p. 6o.
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Skaggs, Jimmy M. Ranch and Range in Oklahoma, book, 1983; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc862888/m1/74/: accessed April 24, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; .