In 1879, Col. George Washington Miller with son, Joe, then age 11, rode across the Cherokee Outlet, looking for rangeland where they could run cattle. Miller, originally from Kentucky, had already established an operation in Kansas and northeastern Indian Territory. The Outlet—60 miles wide and 180 miles long—stretched across Indian Territory along the border with Kansas and was a place where


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