Land Run Photos

YOUTH CURIOUS ABOUT LAND RUN OF 1893 – This year, 2018, is the 125th anniversary of The Great Land Run of 1893, the opening of the Cherokee Strip. Kiowa, Kansas, woman De Coyle seized the opportunity to help others remember this historical event. During Kiowa's Pioneer Days and the Kansas Big Road Trip Coyle set up a booth at the bigger-than-life bronze that depicts the Land Run of 1893 located at Fourth and Main streets in Kiowa. Here, Kiowa youth Zion Quinlan Johnson checks it all out. Coyle presents him with a replica of one of the certificates given to those who made the Land Run of 1893 and staked their claim. Behind him is Patricia Sanger who was also intrigued with all the memorabilia Coyle had displayed.

SCHOOL CHILDREN HAVE FUN LEARNING EARLY-DAY KIOWA FACTS AND ABOUT THE GREAT LAND RUN OF 1893 – Children from South Barber Elementary School in Kiowa, Kansas, take an outing during school to learn about Kiowa's early days and the Great Land Run of 1893. Kiowa woman De Coyle researched fun facts about those early days and put them on posters. She displayed them beside the Great Land Run of 1893 bronze statue placed at the corner of Fourth and Main streets in Kiowa. The statue was a gift to the city donated by Cecil "Junior" Tucker and his wife, Verna. The elementary kids enjoy taking turns and reading aloud the fun facts on the posters. Children shown are: (from left) Tate Dunn, Devin Olson, Laurn Cropp, Gabe Maas, Abigail Bryan, Kevin Mendoza, Rosalyn Fox, Candace MacKinney, Lyndsay Cropp, Aden Courson, Alyssa Sciara, Mrs. Ricke and Aimee Bryan.