Lawton, the Tent City:
Time Line Activity
 
Directions:  Before you read "Lawton, the Tent City", work with a friend to organize the following events from the story using a time line.  Draw a straight line across a blank page for your  time line.  Put the following events from the story where you and your friend think they belong on the time line. Some of the events have been entered for you.

Now read the story.  Which events need to be moved?  Why? 

Prepare a final copy of the time line and turn it in to your teacher.  Be sure to write your name and the name of your friend on the final copy.

Events from the Story
 
Outlaws handcuffed to wagon wheels
Businesses and homes in tents
August 6, 1901
Buffalo Soldiers built Fort Sill
Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation
Homesteaders register for lottery
Soldiers enforced the law
Quanah Parker surrendered
Geronimo was a prisoner at Fort Sill
Land Lottery 
Land Auction
Registration at El Reno
Covered wagon was courthouse
Marshal enforced the law
Rag Town was built
General Henry W. Lawton died
Only two wooden buildings in Lawton
Needed $25 in cash to bid
Auctioneer sold lots
Surveyors measured lots
Buffalo pasture
The end of the frontier
Goo Goo Avenue was built
Buffalo were gone
Jenkins took a ride
President McKinley divided the land
BIdders claimed their lots
 
T I M E    L I N E
 
K-C-A Reservation
x
Geronimo
surrendered
x
August 6, 
1901
x
Goo Goo
Avenue
x
End of the frontier
x
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