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Forty acres and a mule was part of Special Field Orders No. 15, a wartime order proclaimed by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on January 16th, 1865, during the American Civil War, to allot land to some freed families, in plots of land no larger than 40 acres (16 ha). Sherman later ordered the army to lend mules for the agrarian reform ...
Pawnee (Pawnee: Paári, [4] Iowa-Oto: Páñi Chína[5]) is a city and county seat of Pawnee County, Oklahoma, United States. [6] The town is northeast of Stillwater at the junction of U.S. Route 64 and State Highway 18. [7] It was named for the Pawnee tribe, which was relocated to this area between 1873 and 1875. [8]
Equus asinus. The American Mammoth Jackstock is a breed of North American donkey, descended from large donkeys imported to the United States from about 1785. George Washington, with Henry Clay and others, bred for an ass that could be used to produce strong work mules. Washington was offering his jacks for stud service by 1788.
The gunfight at the O.K. Corral pitted lawmen against members of a loosely organized group of cattle rustlers and horse thieves called the Cowboys on October 26, 1881. While lasting less than a minute, the gunfight has been the subject of books and films into the 21st century. Taking place in the town of Tombstone in Arizona Territory, the ...
Fort Sill is a United States Army post north of Lawton, Oklahoma, about 85 miles (137 km) southwest of Oklahoma City.It covers almost 94,000 acres (38,000 ha). [2]The fort was first built during the Indian Wars. [3]
The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of former Indian Territory, which had earlier been assigned to the Creek and Seminole peoples. The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of the present-day US state of ...
Pallid bat, Antrozous pallidus. Rafinesque's big-eared bat, Plecotus rafinesquii. Townsend's big-eared bat, Plecotus townsendii. Evening bat, Nycticeius humeralis. Seminole bat, Lasiurus seminolus. Eastern red bat, Lasiurus borealis. Silver-haired bat, Lasionycteris noctivagans. Yuma myotis, Myotis yumanensis.
United States Army Remount Service. A part of the Quartermaster Corps, the U.S. Army Remount Service provided horses (and later mules and dogs) as remounts to U.S. Army units. Evolving from both the Remount Service of the Quartermaster Corps and a general horse-breeding program under the control of the Department of Agriculture, the Remount ...