An original General Land Office trust patent, Allotment No. 126, issued under the Dawes Severalty Act (General Allotment Act of February 8, 1887; 24 Stat. 388) as modified by the Act of June 6, 1900 (31 Stat. 672) — the agreement that broke up the Kiowa, Comanche & Apache (KCA) Reservation and opened its surplus lands to non-Indian settlement in the famous 1901 lottery.

The patent allots 160 acres to TO-VO-DOO-AH, a Comanche residing on the Kiowa, Comanche, and Apache Reservation, described as the West half of the Northeast quarter and the West half of the Southeast quarter of Section 14, Township 4 North, Range 10 West of the Indian Meridian, Oklahoma. The schedule of allotments was dated May 3, 1901 and approved by the Secretary of the Interior May 4, 1901. The United States declares it will hold the land in trust for twenty-five years for the sole use and benefit of the allottee and his heirs.

Given at the City of Washington the twenty-fifth day of August, 1901, in the name of President William McKinley — issued just twelve days before McKinley was shot at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo (September 6; died September 14, 1901). As was standard GLO practice, the President's name was applied by an authorized secretary ("By the President: William McKinley / By [Secretary]"), and the patent is countersigned by the Recorder of the General Land Office. Recorded Vol. 81, p. 126.

The document retains its bright embossed orange-red paper seal of the United States General Land Office with eagle. The bold red diagonal line across the blank portion of the legal description and the red underscoring of the fill-in blanks are original GLO control markings, applied to prevent any later unauthorized additions.

CONDITION: Single large sheet, approximately 10 x 15 inches, with the usual horizontal mailing folds, light age toning, and minor edge wear. Clean, fully legible, and very displayable. Embossed seal complete and vivid. Now sleeved.

HISTORICAL NOTE: A genuine primary-source artifact of federal Indian allotment policy — the mechanism that converted communal reservation land into individual 160-acre trust parcels and opened the KCA lands of southwestern Oklahoma to settlement. Named Comanche allottee documents from this era are scarce and have strong appeal to collectors of Western Americana, Native American history, and presidential/GLO material.  [ss] [ph:L]

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