The Oklahoma Land Rush Of 1889
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The Oklahoma Land Rush Of 1889
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Author : Stan Hoig
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
The Oklahoma Land Rush Of 1889 written by Stan Hoig and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with History categories.
The great rush for the Oklahoma lands in 1889 was more than a regional event--it was a national excitement comparable to the California and Colorado gold rushes and involved people from all parts of the country. Some were honest, God-fearing citizens; some were not. Stan Hoig's The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 is the first study to take an in-depth look at what really took place before and after the shots were fired at high noon on April 22.
Letters From The Oklahoma Land Run
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Author : Kent Brooks
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-09-04
Letters From The Oklahoma Land Run written by Kent Brooks and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-04 with categories.
These letters were sent from Indian Territory by those seeking land in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. The adventurous writers sent home bits and pieces of news about new vocations, deaths, murders, births, fights, shootings, politics, prices for commodities and more. These land seekers, correspondents, cowboys and other citizens writing these letters provide a great historical record of the settlement of Indian Territory and the American west during the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889.
1889
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Author : Michael J. Hightower
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2018-09-20
1889 written by Michael J. Hightower and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-20 with History categories.
After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown” to describe their new home. But the territory’s creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889, Michael J. Hightower’s revealing look at a moment in history that, in all its turmoil and complexity, transcends the myth. Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies. Against this fraught background, 1889 travels back and forth between Washington, D.C., and the Oklahoma frontier to describe the politics of settlement, public land use, and the first stirrings of urban development. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Hightower captures the drama of the Boomer incursions and the Run of ’89, as well as the nascent urbanization of the townsite that would become Oklahoma City. All of these events played out in a political vacuum until Congress officially created Oklahoma Territory in the Organic Act of May 1890. The story of central Oklahoma is profoundly American, showing the region to have been a crucible for melding competing national interests and visions of the future. Boomers, businessmen, cattlemen, soldiers, politicians, pundits, and African and Native Americans squared off—sometimes peacefully, often not—in disagreements over public lands that would resonate in western history long after 1889.
The 89ers
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Author : Kathlyn Baldwin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The 89ers written by Kathlyn Baldwin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
The Oklahoma Land Rush
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994-01-01
The Oklahoma Land Rush written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994-01-01 with Homestead law categories.
The Oklahoma Land Rush was the greatest giveaway of land in history The government sponsored a series of races & lotteries in which thousands of settlers completed for lands formerly occupied by Indians. Farm, homesteads & cities were created. This Jackdaw tells the story of how land promised to the Indians in perpetuity was opened to white settlement. But it also tells of the homesteaders who struggled to establish civilization on the unsettled frontier. Five Broadsheet Essays * The Permanent Solution * The Impossible Dream * Harrison's Hoss Race * The Homesteaders * Statehood & Beyond Eleven Historical Documents * Sequoyah's Cherokee alphabet, 1821. * A congressional act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians & for their removal west of the Mississippi River, 1829, & a transcript. * Certificate from President James Polk to an Indian chief, 1846. * Boomer broadside: "Grand Rush for the Indian Territory," 1879. * A license to trade with Indians, 1883. * A map of the Indian Territory, 1885. * The first page of a presidential proclamation by Benjamin Harrison announcing the opening of the Oklahoma lands, 1889, & a transcript. * A map of the territory opened to settlement, 1889. * An application & final certificate for a homestead claim. * The first page of the act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma, 1889, & a transcript. * A presidential proclamation by Theodore Roosevelt admitting Oklahoma into the Union as a state, 1907.
Beautiful Land
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Author : Nancy Antle
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 1997-01-01
Beautiful Land written by Nancy Antle and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Annie Mae's family is looking forward to beginning a new life—on their own land. When the Oklahoma Territory is opened in 1889, they and thousands of other settlers race across the border to claim some land of their own. But there is not enough for everyone, and Annie Mae is afraid of trouble ahead. Even if they find their beautiful land, will they be able to keep it?
Dreams To Dust
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Author : Sheldon Russell
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 2012-08-10
Dreams To Dust written by Sheldon Russell and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-10 with History categories.
On a fateful day in 1889, the Oklahoma land rush begins, and for thousands of settlers the future is up for grabs. One of those people is Creed McReynolds, fresh from the East with a lawyer’s education and a head full of aspirations. The mixed-blood son of a Kiowa mother and a U.S. Cavalry doctor, Creed lands in Guthrie station, the designated Territorial Capital, where he must prove that he is more than the half-blood kid once driven from his own land. In recounting the precipitous rise and catastrophic fall of the jerrybuilt city of Guthrie, author Sheldon Russell immerses us in the lives of Creed and other memorable characters whose ambitions echo the taming of the frontier—and whose fates hold lessons as important today as they were more than a hundred years ago. Among the people McReynolds must contend with is Abaddon Damon. A ruthless newspaper publisher, Abaddon is quick to strike any bargain that will bring him the power he craves, and like many others, Creed McReynolds is swept into his whirlwind of greed and deception. Creed becomes the wealthiest man in the Territory—but at an unbearable cost to himself, the dreams of others, and the dignity of his mother’s people. Dreams to Dust takes readers back to the early days of Oklahoma Territory—a sometimes dangerous place filled with nefarious dealings, where violence lurks behind even casual encounters—to tell the story of frontier men and women gambling everything to find their fortune on the windswept southern plains.
Provin Up
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Author : Kevin D Howard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-01-27
Provin Up written by Kevin D Howard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-27 with Fiction categories.
The main characters and the stories are fictitious. The historical timeline, the lands claimed in Logan County, the names of the surrounding settlers, and local businesses are real. In 1887, two cowboys fresh off a cattle drive on the Chisholm Trail realize the days of the cattle drives are almost over. They decide to start their own ranch by leasing land in the Cherokee Strip. When the Unassigned lands are opened to settlement in 1889, they decide to participate in the Land Run. This book covers the period from 1887 to 1895, and describes the hardships, trials and tribulations of making a living on the Oklahoma prairie for five years in order to gain title to the land. Each year lists events around the country that emphasize just how hoard and desperate these settlers were as there was easy living elsewhere. They were sometimes forced to eat armadillos and rattlesnakes just to survive. Some settlers proved up their land and their descendants own it still. Others didn't last. The toll was too great.
Discover Oklahoma Usa
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Discover Oklahoma Usa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Oklahoma categories.
Boom Town
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Author : Sam Anderson
language : en
Publisher: Crown
Release Date : 2018-08-21
Boom Town written by Sam Anderson and has been published by Crown this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-21 with Social Science categories.
A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.