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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A plot of land in present-day northern Oklahoma. Purchased from the Cherokee Nation by the United States in 1891, it was opened to settlement in 1893.
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Examples
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He knew, as all men did, that the Cherokee Strip was the home of desperadoes and man-killers.
A Man Four-Square William MacLeod Raine 1912
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Oklahoma Frontier (1939): Land rush leads to an attempt to control the water rights in the Cherokee Strip, with Johnny Mack Brown.
Peter H. Gleick: Water in the Movies: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly 2010
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Bart lives and works out in what I call Tallshit, Oklahoma that's Tulsa to us Okies--I'll qualify my expertise by saying I spent some growing up years in Enid, Oklahoma, right in the heart of the Cherokee Strip.
Educating BartCop The Daily Growler 2006
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Both, it seemed, were part Cherokee Indian and had been born and reared in the Cherokee Strip area of Oklahoma.
Will Liddy, G. Gordon 1980
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Wayne Brantner's earliest memory was of being lifted to his father's shoulders on the wooden sidewalk in a little town in the Cherokee Strip to watch a shootout between a local card player and an itinerant "tin horn" who had allegedly cheated him.
Will Liddy, G. Gordon 1980
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Perhaps the most important of these is that for the cession of the Cherokee Strip.
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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Cherokee Strip have made no substantial progress so far as the
State of the Union Address (1790-2001) United States. Presidents.
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Minnesota, Dakota and Kansas -- and the choice was open to all, following the agreement of the plains tribes to retire to reservations, -- it was not strange that the unassigned lands of Indian Territory should have escaped notice, surrounded as they were by the Cherokee Strip, the
Lahoma 1913
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He was a unit in that immense throng that waited impatiently for the hour of noon -- a countless host, stretching along the north on the boundary of the Cherokee Strip, on the south, at the edge of the
Lahoma 1913
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Buffalo Springs on that trail, where it runs through the Cherokee Strip.
The Outlet Andy Adams 1897
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