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Title: University of California publications in history
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: University of California, Berkeley. cn California. University
Subjects: History
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : The University Press
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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theroute along the Canadian River—the thirty-fifth-parallel route i It was estimated by the officer who had recently been in command atFort Smith that two thousand persons were settled beyond the line proposedfor the western boundary of Arkansas in 1823. Moreover, this line, whereit crossed the Arkansas, was ten miles west of the boundary agreed uponin 1828. See W. Bradfords statement, March 25, 1824, American StatePapers, Indian Affairs, II, 557. 2 It was a part of every plan for a Pacific railroad to clear the countryof Indians for miles on both sides of the road. It was not only plannedto secure funds for the construction of the road by the sale of this land,but it was hoped that the influx of settlers would help to make the ventureprofitable from the beginning. By the Pacific railroad act of July 1, 1S62,the United States undertook to extinguish the Indian titles to a stripof land twenty miles wide alonq: the proposed line, which was not yetdefinitely located (12 Statutes, 492).
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7 ■ Proposal to Open Nebraska 25 —was in some respects the best one of the five or six considered ;3but the modified southern route through Texas was acceptableto the people of the states south of Missouri. Therefore theopening of this part of the Indian Territory was hardly sug-gested until 1854, the year of the organization of Nebraska andKansas. The movement to open the northern part of the larger In-dian Territory was connected from the beginning with a desirefor a road to the West. The first official suggestion of an en-croachment upon the country of the Indians was made in 1844.In that year William Wilkins of Pennsylvania, the secretary ofwar, recommended in his annual report that a territory shouldbe organized on both sides of the Platte. This was a plan toopen the way to the Pacific, and evidently it was the result ofthe growing interest in Oregon. He recommended that theIndians should be pushed back to the north and to the south,and that an organized and settled district

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