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The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

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U.S. Statutes at Large, Vol. 34, Part 1, Resolution No. 42, p. 837. "Joint Resolution Directing that the Sulphur Springs Reservation be named and hereafter called the Platt National Park.'" S.J.R. 69; Public Resolution No. 42

U.S. Congress. 59th. 1st Session.

CREATED/PUBLISHED
United States : District of Columbia : Washington Government Printing Office 1906 06 29

SUMMARY
Designates the Sulphur Springs Reservation, an Indian reservation in Oklahoma, as Platt National Park.

NOTES
The new park contained medicinal springs.

Congress had purchased these springs from the Choctaw and Chickasaw Nations to create the Sulphur Springs Reservation in 1902. The precedent for Federal ownership of medicinal springs was established by Congress's creation of the Hot Springs (Arkansas) Reservation in 1832, which became Hot Springs National Park in 1921.

Published 1907.

SUBJECTS
Law--United States
National parks and reserves
Indians of North America--Government relations

MEDIUM
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CALL NUMBER
KF 50 .U5

PART OF
United States Statutes at Large

DIGITAL ID
amrvl vl100

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