Subject: triple ghost bubbles discovered<br/>
Date: Feb 08, 2003 @ 19:36<br/>
Author: acroorca2002 &lt;orc@orcoast.com&gt; (&quot;acroorca2002 &lt;orc@...&gt;&quot; &lt;orc@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-632445322">lovers of the kentucky bend exclave <br/>
aka the bubble <br/>
may be interested to know there was once a comparable yet multiple <br/>
situation along the switchbacks of the canadian river in what is today <br/>
west central oklahoma<br/>
<br/>
the 1988 national geographic historical atlas of the usa shows on page <br/>
122 an 1856 map of kansas & nebraska by morse & gaston <br/>
which indicates the indian territory was then subdivided into 3 parts<br/>
one of which <br/>
named muscogee & occupied by creeks & seminoles <br/>
is shown bounded on the south by the canadian river <br/>
& on the north by the 36th parallel<br/>
<br/>
as was the case with ky bend <br/>
geographical knowledge of western ok was inadequate at that time for <br/>
any discontiguity to have been realized<br/>
& indeed the morse & gaston map shows no break in muscogee <br/>
but just a narrow westward proruption <br/>
& no major switchbacks in the river<br/>
 <br/>
thus the north & south bounds of muscogee are shown almost but not <br/>
quite convergent in the far west of the indian territory<br/>
<br/>
however a glance at the modern map of ok shows the the canadian <br/>
river does bend northward of the 36th parallel 3 times & thus that 3 <br/>
bubbles of this original muscogee entity actually did exist between <br/>
the 99th & 100th meridian<br/>
<br/>
soon after the date of the map <br/>
muscogee was truncated & relieved of its westernmost lands<br/>
so the claves were not only unsuspected but evanescent besides<br/>
<br/>
nevertheless you can still see them pop out at you on any decent map<br/>
between the canadian river & the 36th parallel<br/>
<br/>
look for the easterly one in dewey county & the westerly 2 in ellis<br/>
<br/>
the westernmost one is also bounded by the texas panhandle on the west<br/>
<br/>
all that is left of old muscogee is now muskogee county ok <br/>
still clinging to the canadian but no longer anywhere near the 36th <br/>
parallel<br/>
& indeed now far to the east of its former bubbles</div>