- Island Bayou (Oklahoma)
Island Bayou is a
tributary of the Red River inOklahoma .The stream arises northeast of Calera in Bryan County and flows souteastward before emptying into the Red River south of Wade. The entire length is within Bryan County.
The
Treaty of Doaksville (1837) set Island Bayou as the boundary between the Chickasaw andChoctaw Nation s inIndian Territory ; however, the description was uncertain. It was not until 1854 that the Choctaw-Chickasaw treaty of that year gave certainty to the boundary::"viz: Beginning on the north bank of the Red River, at the mouth of Island Bayou, where it empties into the Red River...thence, northerly along the eastern prong of Island Bayou to its source; thence, due north to the Canadian River"."The
Texas Road and the oldButterfield Overland Mail route ran past the head of Island Bayou atFisher's Station .ources
*Kappler, Charles (ed.). [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/KAPPLER/Vol2/treaties/chi0486.htm "TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW, 1837 (Doaksville)"] . "Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties". Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. 2:486-488 (accessed August 25, 2006).
*Kappler, Charles (ed.). [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/KAPPLER/Vol2/treaties/cho0652.htm "TREATY WITH THE CHOCTAW AND CHICKASAW, 1854"] . "Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties". Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904. 2:652-653 (accessed August 25, 2006).
*Wright, Muriel H. [http://digital.library.okstate.edu/chronicles/v008/v008p315.html "Organization of the Counties in the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations"] . "Chronicles of Oklahoma" 8:3 (September 1930) 315-334. (accessed August 26, 2006).
*United States Geological Survey. [http://www.topoquest.com/map.asp?lat=33.95786&lon=-96.45363&symshow=n&u=5&datum=nad83&layer=DRG "Source Island Bayou"-Map from TopoQuest] . (accessed June 29, 2008).
*United States Geological Survey. [http://www.topoquest.com/map.asp?lat=33.8476&lon=-96.10415&datum=nad83&u=5&layer=DRG&s=50 "Mouth of Island Bayou"-Map from TopoQuest] . (accessed June 29, 2008).
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