NW Okie's Corner
[Hurt sisters: Anna, Emma, Tillie and Mary.] The Bender Family
We did a Google search for "Kate Bender" and found the following The Bender Family, Photos at Murderpedia. Duchess of Weaselskin
"Wilderness, where earth and its community of life are untrammeled by man, where man himself is a visitor who does not remain." - Wilderness Act, 1964. One Hundred Years Ago - 9 September 1913, Tuesday
Looking back through old news archives from Oklahoma, especially The Daily Ardmoreite, dated 9 September 1913, Tuesday, "Drill For Oil Near Sulphur," we find that a bunch of New Yorkers were buying up leases near Sulphur, Oklahoma (midway between Ardmore and Sulphur, to be exact). Property Owners Interested In Proposed Interurban (1913)
Continuing looking through The Daily Ardmoreite dated 9 September 1913, Tuesday, we read the headlines: "Property Owners Become Interested Proposed Interurban Can Be Built." Osage Indians & Labette County (Kansas)
It was the aftermath of the America Civil War, and the United States government forcibly relocated Osage Indians from Labette county, Kansas to a designated "Indian Territory" (what would later become Oklahoma). The land formerly occupied by the Osage was made available to non-Indian homesteaders. Labette county is in the southeast corner of Kansas.
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