Big Pasture Public Schools

The Big Pasture received its name to distinguish it from several other smaller areas set aside by the United States Government as Indian pasturages when the Plains Tribes were placed on the Oklahoma reservations. The Big Pasture is twenty-nine miles deep and thirty-six miles wide. It begins at the north bank of the Red River and runs within six miles of Lawton. The Kiowa, Apache and Comanche Indians owned the pasture reservation land as agreed under the terms of the Medicine Lodge treaty of 1867. Several ranchers on the Texas side of the river wanted to rent the lands to graze their herds of cattle. Three prominent ranchers leased the lands from the Indians. W. T. Waggoner, S. Burk Burnett and the Suggs Brothers. In 1905 President Theodore Roosevelt made his famous wolf hunt to this section of Oklahoma. During the hunt, Roosevelt roped a coyote. In 1906 the pasture was opened for development by bids with payment to the tribes. Five town sites were platted in the Big Pasture: Randlett, Eschiti, Quanah, Isadore, and Ahpeatone. The only one of these original town sites to survive is Randlett. The Big Pasture School was consolidated from the schools of Devol, Randlett, and Union Valley (near Cookietown) in 1958.

Big Pasture Public School is committed to educational excellence for the students of Randlett, Oklahoma

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