History

In the relocation of the Five Civilized Tribes from their native lands in the east to the Indian
Territory of the United States (a large part of the states of Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma)
this land was assigned to the Choctaws of Mississippi and Alabama in exchange for their native
lands. In 1837 the Choctaws sold the western half of their lands in the Indian Territory to the
Chickasaws for $530,000.00.

Because of the majority of the Indians in the area of Oklahoma aligned themselves with the Confederacy
during the Civil War, at the end of the war the Federal Government demanded that the new treaties
be made with these tribes by means of which these tribes were required to give up much of their
territory. The Chocataws and Chickasaws were compressed into the eastern part of their earlier
alloted lands. The western part was divided up into 2 reservations and a part of a third; one
being shared by the Wichita and Caddo tribes, another by the Kiowa, Comanche and the Apache tribes,
the remainder as a part of the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation.

The enticement of the land for the taking and taming was all it took for the settlers to move
to the new land from the ealier settled parts of the country where the land had been taken.
Merchants, bankers, farmers, stockmen;they all came to ply their trade in the new land.

Mountain View was first established May 8, 1899 in the Cheyenn-Arapaho land, 7 years after it's
opening April 19, 1892, then in 1903-1904 it was moved across the Washita River into the lands of
the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache reservation which had been opened to settlement in 1901.