About half my Dad's family stayed in Kansas and the others went to Oklahoma and particiapted in the opening of the Cherokee Strip. The original quarter section was in my family until the 70's when it was taken by the Feds for a lake. Now the Fed's want to take one of the homesteads on my Mom's side down in Texas for their NAFTA Superhighway.
A dude tried to horn in on one of my Uncles' land that he'd staked out (a little early) and when Uncle Joe called him on it, he wanted to share. Uncle Joe had a .44 six-shooter and he offered to share six feet of it so the old boy pulled stakes and looked for easier pickin's.
