[ought-six]

Indian Territory was pretty lawless back in the day. It’s one of the reasons bad guys would beat feet for “The Territories” to escape justice.

[Verginius Rufus]

At the end of Huck Finn, Tom Sawyer's aunt wants to civilize Huck, so he's thinking of heading out to Indian Territory to avoid that.

I had cousins who married Cherokee women when they were still in Georgia, and went with them to Indian Territory on the Trail of Tears. I find some of their descendants later in census records--some of them spoke only Cherokee. More recently I got in touch with one of their descendants who showed up as one of my DNA matches. She failed to avail herself of the opportunity to become a member of the Harvard Law School faculty.

[Bonemaker]

Union Government just can’t learn to leave people alone...from Indian Territory to Randy Weaver.