This border area between the Ozarks and Osage Plains once belonged to the Osage nation. Osage lands included southern Missouri, eastern Kansas, and northern Arkansas and Oklahoma.
The Osage maintained their stronghold for several centuries, . . . — — Map (db m272498) HM
English Side
A Frenchman, Pierre Esprit Radisson, wrote in 1659 of a nation” of extraordinary height and bigness” (the Osage) living up the Missouri River. Marquette and Joliet’s 1674 maps show the village of the Osage, and some of . . . — — Map (db m86416) HM
Osage County was once a part of the vast homelands of the roaming Osage tribe, but in the early 1800's the land was given to the Cherokee tribe by the American government. In the late 1800's when the Osage tribe relocated from Kansas to Oklahoma, . . . — — Map (db m284734) HM
In memory and dedication to those whose foresight, frustrations and sacrifices have helped the Osage Tribe to preserve its identity [sp], development and culture.
1865 - The Osages agreed to the sale of their Kansas lands.
1871 — . . . — — Map (db m55653) HM
By 1760 the Osage of Missouri had increased their range to include present day Osage County. In 1835 the area was included in the "perpetual outlet west" guaranteed to the Cherokee Nation under the Treaty of New Echota. In 1870, under the Cherokee . . . — — Map (db m284711) HM
Because of its wealth and location, the Osage Hills became an unwilling host to many outlaw gangs in the 1800's.
This land was an easy refuge for villains and outlaws because of its isolation and rugged terrain. It was far from Fort Smith, . . . — — Map (db m284736) HM
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