The Lone Tree Incident - US 54
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PeterNoG
N 37° 17.123 W 100° 22.076
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This Kansas historical marker is on US 54 one mile west of Meade.
Waymark Code: WM2XN5
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 01/06/2008
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During the first half of the 19th century the U.S. government, in response to public pressure for land and resources, began a program of concentrating Indian tribes on reservations. After the Civil War, an evergrowing number of settlers made it difficult for Native Americans to survive on the Plains. There was resistance from many Plains Indians, eventually resulting in open warefare.
Several times during the summer of 1874, warriors left the confines of thier reservations in present-day Oklahoma and moved north into western Kansas. Some 27 settlers were killed and many farms were destroyed.
On August 24, 1874, a band of 25 Cheyennes led by Chief Medicine Water ambushed six men of a surveying company 11 miles southwest of this marker. The men fled, trading shots with the Indians. After three miles the oxen pulling the surveyors' wagon were shot and all six men were killed. Two days later thier bodies were found and buried near a solitary cottonwood five miles south of here. The lone tree gave its name to this incident and was for mant years a famous prairie landmark. ~ text of marker
Marker Name: The Lone Tree Incident
Marker Type: Roadside
Marker text:
See above
Marker Location: Meade
Official Marker Number: 78
Name of agency setting marker: Kansas State Historical Society
Year Marker Placed: Not listed
Marker Web Address: Not listed
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