Document Type
Atlas/Map
Publication Date
1867
Abstract
A map titled "Dodge's Sectional Map of the Cherokee Neutral Lands. Kansas." which shows portions of Bourbon County, Crawford County, and Cherokee County in Southeast Kansas circa 1867. This area, designated in 1825 as a barrier between the Osage Nation and white settlers in Missouri, was called the Osage Neutral Lands. Later it was assigned to the Cherokee and renamed the Cherokee Neutral Lands. The Cherokee Nation sold this land to the U.S. federal government in 1866 but squatters had already been settling in the area prior to that date. The map likely first appeared in a pamphlet published by William H. Dodge in 1867. It is referenced in the "History of Cherokee County, Kansas and Representative Citizens," published in 1904 by Nathaniel Thompson Allison (see page 44).
Recommended Citation
Dodge, William H., "Dodge's Sectional Map of the Cherokee Neutral Lands. Kansas., 1867" (1867). Maps & Atlases. 8.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/maps/8
