Canadian River

Unassigned

was that part of the land ceded by the creeks bounded on the north of the Cherokee outlet, the east by the Indian meridian, the west by 96 west longitude, the south by the Canadian river.

In 1886, Congress authorized the president to stop negotiations with the creeks, Cherokees, and Seminoles for the purpose of opening to settlement under the Homestead laws the unassigned lands of the Indian

territory.

Daly is with those now waiting to make the run from the south border.

Come in, John Daly.

The South Bank of the Canadian River here between Texas and Oklahoma Country, as far as the eye can see and all the way back into the woods, is literally boiling with men held back only by U.S. soldiers strung out at gunshot hearing from each other.

Some of these men have been camping here beside the river since last winter.

I'm back home.

You know, I grew up up here on the banks of the South Canadian River, Lexington, Oklahoma.

Last of the 13 kids, we had to have a big family, you know, pick cotton, pull bowls, and that's what we did, worked for the family unit back then, and tried to make ends meet and come together, and usually it did, so...

And I just want to take a second to thank Chief Batten.

The prisoner was turned over to the sheriff of Hutchinson County, and Captain Bill pursued his investigation.

He located a bunch of stolen calves, herded in the breaks of the Canadian River, guarded by another member of the gang.

He brought a man who had lost a number of milk cows and calves to identify the calves.

No very difficult matter, for the man declared that he knew them as well as he knew his own children.

It's near Tuttle, Oklahoma.

Highway 4 bridge over the Canadian River.

On August 4th, 2025...

At 8.15 a.m., I was heading to work, traveling north on Highway 4 from Tuttle, Oklahoma, towards Mustang, Oklahoma.

Traveling over the bridge, over the Canadian River, I always look up and down the river when crossing the bridge.

On this occasion, looking to the east, I saw a very large black figure walking across the river.

The day was clear and the sighting was at a distance of about 80 to 120 yards.

Where are you from, Deesha?

Well, I had a place down on the Canadian River, Marshal, but I went broke.

Uh-huh.

All I had left was my horses.

horses? Seventeen.

The only one they didn't steal was the one I was riding.

Yeah, you're a long way from the Canadian River.

I

The End

Tascosa lay on the Canadian River a couple of hard days' ride south.

Until recently, it had been a Comanchero trading point.

Now it was mostly a center for cattle thieves looking for a place to spend their money.

Next morning early, Chester and I saddled up and rode out past the edge of town to the south.

There we pulled off the trail into a clump of scrub cedar and waited.

Beyond us lay the Canadian River, and across it brought Vegas of spring-fed meadow grass.

As we watched, a buffalo, cow, and calf came to the river and drank.

The country was full of elk, buffalo, antelope, and deer, and we always had plenty of venison to eat, after our appetites were sharpened from a day's riding in the saddle.

We had our cattle bedded near the Canadian River one rainy night, and Tom Murphy, of Austin, and I were guarding them.

At twelve o'clock that night, about fifteen Indians made a sudden raid on the cattle and stampeded them.

The cattle and horses were very much frightened and scattered in every direction.

Chapter twenty-two: A prisoner escapes.

While stationed at Amarillo, I went to Woodward, Oklahoma, after a fellow by the name of Bill Hines, who robbed a man of six hundred dollars in Collinsworth County.

I caught this man, and while we were crossing the Canadian River about a mile from Canadian City, I dropped off to sleep as I had been on the go for three days and nights and was worn out.

I woke up in Canadian City and found that Billy had bid me goodbye while I was asleep and had struck a stock train and gone back to Woodward, Oklahoma.

Cuchilla, knife, a useful term for the salience or comb-like secondary crests which project at right angles between the lateral drainage originating on the sides of a sierra.

Example, the Cuchilla de Barracoa of Cuba.

it is equivalent to the french arret the adjective chiquito meaning little is applied to minor secondary fringing elevations accompanying the base of a sierra or cordillera such as hogbacks names applied to plains the arid region of north america is about equally divided into mountains and plains the plains belong to four great topographic categories which in the rich spanish nomenclature of the region may be termed mesas bolsons plazas and cuestas including bajadas mesas are summit plains cuestas and bajadas are inclined plains which can also be classed as declivities plazas and bolsons are valley plains or flat-bottomed valleys the term mesa means literally a table it is a flat surface on the top of hills or mountains in new mexico it is applied not only to the table-lands of a circumscribed summit but to extensive level benches abutting against higher eminences and bounded partially by escarpments called cejas extensive meso regions are usually called by americans mesas of new mexico and of the transpecos region of texas are of three general types plateau mesas bench mesas and cuesta mesas the plateau mesa is a circumscribed summit whose continuity with other areas has been destroyed by erosion the benchmesser is a bench or shoulder projecting against a region forming a higher background bench messers may be classified by structure into bolson messers stream terrace messers talus van messers and malpais a bolson mesa is a bench mesa forming the outer escarpment of a drainage valley which has been cut through a bolson e g the el paso mesa stream terrace taluz fan and malpais mesas are self-explanatory terms a cuesta is a structural plane so tilted that it has a perceptibly sloping surface the cuesta is in a manner a transitional feature between mesa and mountain the cuesta del buro of the marfa texas sheet of the united states geological survey is an example bolson footnote literally a large purse example bolson de mapimi lake bonneville is a bolson the third type of plain is a bolson bolsons are basin valleys which have not or originally had not any outflowing drainage and are lined with sedimentary debris derived from the surrounding country a plaza footnote literally an open level area such as a public square a market-place or a drill-ground applied in topography to local stretches of level scarp bordered valleys in a generally hilly region may be defined as the sublevel floor of an extensive wide flat valley lying between the cejas of mesas in conception it resembles a canon in being limited by cliffs but differs from a canon in the element of narrowness the floor of a plaza being an exceptionally wide valley plain example plaza larga the flat valley of a southern tributary of the canadian in new mexico near the texas line the valleys of the pecos and canadian rivers in eastern new mexico are plazas of great magnitude Mesas and cuestas are structural planes representing surfaces resulting from the survival of hard layers of rock.

The plaza is a degradational plane lying between steep escarpments and formed by the cutting away of the hard rock floor of the mesas through the underlying unconsolidated beds to still lower strata of harder rock beneath it.

the bolson is an aggradational plain formed by the filling up of ancient structural and erosion valleys by the debris of the marginal country the edges of the rock sheets composing mesas in some instances upturn into mountain structure the mountain structure sometimes flattens out into mesa structure the cuesta is a transitional feature and connecting step between the mountain mesa and bolson when a cuesta slopes toward a mountain and has its ceja or escarpment on the side furthest from and subparallel to the mountain range the valley lying between this and the mountain may become a balsone and the highest crest of the escarpment of the cuesta may represent a simple monoclinal summit of the type defined by russell and gilbert as base in ranges the escarpment of a cuesta is often produced by a fault running parallel with it and still another bolson may be developed in the trough thus formed at its foot this process many times repeated produces alterations of bolson planes and of basing ranges of the cuesta type bolsons always lie in valleys between the mountains mesas or cuestas and are of subsequent origin mesas are remnants of plains once more extensive but now constantly diminishing in area by degradation plazas are plains cut out of mesas representing areas from which the mesas have been removed and conversely to the mesa are increasing in area bolsons are ancient valleys which have been and usually are still being filled up by degradation of the surrounding mountains mesas and cuestas the mesa plains in general constitute the plateau regions bordering the lateral and terminal portions of cordilleras and occur chiefly as the platform surrounding the eastern line of the rocky mountain cordilleras the plazas lie mostly east of the true mountains principally along the pecos and canadian valleys of new mexico but are especially developed in the plateau countries wherever the formation known as the red beds enters into the substructure the balsams generally lie interiorward of the plateau mesa regions bordering the interior side of the easternmost ranges of the cordilleran front and usually increase in area westward the chief plaza countries of the southwest are from two thousand to four thousand feet in altitude the altitude of the mesa country varies with the continental slope but around the rocky mountain region has an average of more than five thousand feet the balsons usually lie between four thousand and five thousand feet although some of them are below sea level names applied to declivities the terms applied to declivities are ceja cejita puerto bajada escabrodura balcones ceja the late general albert pike wrote the first description of which i find mention of the great escarpment constituting the eastern breaks of that portion of the meso plateau of the plains known as the llano I have been unable to find his book, but George Wilkin Scandal, who wrote the narrative of the Texan Sundaff expedition...

And he ran through the trees and bushes, he lived a life of shame, every crime in Oklahoma was added to his name.

He ran through the trees and bushes on the Canadian River

shore,

and many a starving farmer opened up his door.