When Wyoming was a very new state, it was granted statehood on July 10 of 1890, there was a fight over who owned a strip of land, known as the McKinney Strip, which both the city of Buffalo and the Department of the Interior claimed as their own. Buffalo wanted it to expand the town, and Dept. of th
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On this date in 1903, two men may have been feeling some heat from the Department of the Interior Land Office. John Calkins and Peter Christenson owned separate plots of land near Minot, but were challenged by their neighbors, who accused the two of not meeting the terms required by the Homestead Act of 1862.
A collection of the interesting and sometimes unusual events that happened this week in Arizona history.Oct. 31On this date in 1890, Harrison Morton Lavender, mining engineer and Vice President and General Manager of Phelps Dodge Corp. for whom the Lavender Pit at Bisbee is named, was born.On this date in 1909, Navajo Chief Hashkeneinii, meaning “Angry Warrior,” died after