GIFFIN, ABIAL W. | Allotment Map of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservation in Oklahoma. Butte, Oklahoma: Published by Giffin, Davis and Thrush, 1901

Property from a Distinguished Private Collection

GIFFIN, ABIAL W.

Allotment Map of the Kiowa, Comanche and Apache Indian Reservation in Oklahoma. Butte, Oklahoma: Published by Giffin, Davis and Thrush, 1901

Lithographed map (26 1/4 x 18 1/4 in.; 667 x 464 mm), printed by the Youman-Buttles Eng. Co., Kansas City, Missouri, partially printed in red. Accompanied by the original printed wrappers.

A very scarce allotment map of Indian lands, issued by an Oklahoma attorney specializing in Land Office business. The Indian allotments and pastures are shown in red, government lands in white and military reserves in black. The Kiowa-Comanche lands in southwestern Oklahoma were opened to homesteaders in 1901 by lottery in order to avoid the earlier, disorderly land rushes by "Sooners."

REFERENCE:

Not in Gilcrease

PROVENANCE:

Dr. Frank T. Siebert (Sotheby's New York, 28 October 1999, lot 931)