Show Keep Moving Is Life Recipe Cherokee Strip Veteran Advocates Full Activity KENOSHA WIS Ben Ben Holcomb believes that if you dont don't stay put you can do a lot of living In hi 78 years Ben ought to know He ran uran for fora a homestead in the Cherokee strip when he was 22 he made and lost a small fortune in land speculation in Oklahoma he came cameto cameto cameto to Milwaukee sold cooking utensils anc went broke again and at 70 he bought a pick and 10 acres in Kenosha county and built a house Now he wants to go back to Okla Okla- homaI homa I suppose I haven't made much of myself Ben says but its it's been fun Most fun fun and and hardest work work- work was was as the rush for land In Oklahoma he says ays Ben is one of the few survivors survivors ors of the Cherokee strip the dash to stake out a homestead in Oklahoma That was on Sept 16 1893 Folks came from all over and lined up on the Oklahoma Kansas border Ben says The strip extended extended ex ex- tended the length of the line and was l O feet deep It was jammed jammed- as far as I could see there were people on foot on horseback and with wagons Some were packed in trains that were waiting for the signal to take off oU into the new terri tern tory There wasn't supposed to be a soul there All the cattlemen had taken the cattle out the year before trainloads of e em ent all Long horns The country was completely evacuated evacuated evacuated except for tor the They had entered too soon soon sUpped slipped In past the guards That's why Oklahomans Oklahomans Okla- Okla homans are called When the soldiers gave the signal sig nal ever body streaked out across the plains There were buggies buckboard affairs and little two wheeled carts |