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	Land run - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		September 22, 1891: Land run to settle Iowa, Sac and Fox, Pottawatomie, and Shawnee lands.
		April 19, 1892: Land run to settle the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands.
		The Run of the Cherokee Strip opened nearly 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²) to settlement on September 16, 1893.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land_run (109 words)

	Land run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Run of the Cherokee Strip opened nearly 7,000,000 acres (28,000 km²) to settlement on September 16, 1893.
		Land Trust Alliance Promotes voluntary land conservation and works with nonprofit land trusts by providing information, skills and resources land trusts need to conserve land for the benefit of communities and natural systems.
		The Land Rover Register of South Australia The Land Rover Register is a club formed exclusively for owners of Land Rovers of all types including Range Rovers, Defenders, Countys, Series Land Rovers, Military Vehicles, Freelanders and all other models of Land Rover.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Land_run.html (456 words)

	Oklahoma Land Race - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Oklahoma Land Race or the Cherokee Strip Land Run was a land run or land rush that took place on April 22, 1889.
		The land concerned was a 58 mile (93 km) wide strip running for 225 miles (362 km) between southern Kansas and Oklahoma Territory, around 34,000 km².
		The land rush was dramatized at the climax of the Ron Howard film Far and Away.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oklahoma_Land_Race (501 words)

	Land Run Information
		The Unassigned Lands were laid out in 160-acres homesteads, and on 22 April 1889, it was opened to white settlement in the "Run" for farms and town lots, which has become one of the most dramatized episodes in western history.
		Since the Unassigned Lands had been settled 29 months earlier, in the first Land Run April 22, 1889, there had been a steady push for surrounding Indian reservations to also be opened in similar fashion.
		Land hungry settlers viewed the cattlemen's use of the area as a waste of fertile farmland and pressured the government to purchase the Cherokee land from the Cherokee.
	www.poncacity.com /history/land_run.htm (1940 words)

	Oklahoma Land Run - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Oklahoma Land Run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Over 800,000 ha/2 million acres of unassigned land in Oklahoma District were purchased from the Plains Indians by the US government in 1889.
		The work of the beaver trappers known as mountain men, the California gold rush of 1848–56, the movement of farming settlers to California and Oregon, and the relentless rise in the population of the USA all contributed to the breakdown of the Permanent Indian Frontier.
		Their response on many occasions was to fight but, although there were some successes in the Plains Wars, such as Red Cloud's War (1865–68) and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Montana, in 1876, the general pattern was victory for the Americans.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Oklahoma+Land+Run (690 words)

	1889 Land Run, Guthrie, Oklahoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Unassigned Lands, or "Oklahoma Country," was approximately two million acres in the center of what would be the state of Oklahoma.
		To be eligible to participate in the run, one had to be the head of a family, at least eighteen years old if a male or twenty-one years old if a female, and be an American citizen or have filed a declaration of intention to become one.
		The population of Guthrie before the run consisted of soldiers, deputy marshals, government officials, and railroad personnel; by nightfall it had swelled to 10,000-15,000 people living in tents or crude shacks.
	www.sandplum.com /guthrie/landrun.htm (1166 words)

	LAND RUN of 1889 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Land Run of 1889, although not without precedent in the history of the West, began the disposal of the federal public domain in Oklahoma.
		The Unassigned Lands, left vacant in the post-Civil War effort to create reservations for Plains Indians and other tribes, were considered some of the best unoccupied public land in the nation.
		The surrounding tribal-owned lands included the Cherokee Outlet on the north, bordering Kansas; the Iowa, Kickapoo, and Pottawatomie reservations on the east; and the Cheyenne and Arapaho Reservation on the west.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/landrun.htm (1690 words)

	Upland Bird Habitat 3
		A picture collage from a late summer land run that finalized the contracts for several new quarters of upland bird habitat.
		The contour demonstrated by the terraced field show this to be a gradually rising piece of high ground with a horizon that continues to separate the segments of the field as one travels across.
		The value of winter food source of crop land and cover of a wooded fence line with insect attracting broad leaf weeds and year round cover habitat of the grass is always the combination sought out for land lease.
	www.mahaupland.com /habitat_3.htm (816 words)

	oklahoma land run and other oklahoma related information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		land in the heart of Indian territory were opened to settlement during this first Oklahoma land run.
		THE 1889 LAND RUN (Opening of the Unassigned Lands) The Unassigned Lands, or "Oklahoma Country," was approximately two million acres in the center of what would be...
		Payne County was opened to settlement in the Oklahoma land run of 1889.
	www.nethorde.com /oklahoma/oklahoma-land-run.html (297 words)

	Persons Making the Land Run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This is a list of names of those who claimed land in the Cherokee Strip Land Run of 1893 that registered at the Enid Land Office, located in County O (later became Garfield).
		It was Sept. 16, 1893, the day of the largest land "run" in history, the opening of the Cherokee Strip to settlement.
		Land offices for the filing of claims were at Perry, Enid, Alva and Woodward.
	www.bjsbytes.com /ckstrip2.htm (322 words)

	CHEROKEE STRIP
		See it in the faces of those who live and work on the land their ancestors dreamed of owning when they mounted their horses, buggies and even bicycles and trains, to make the last great race for land on that hot and dusty afternoon of September 16, 1893.
		It is a land as diverse as America itself, with rolling Osage prairies in the east to gypsum sand dunes and the rugged Glass Mountains in the west.
		They came to the land that would be Oklahoma by train, horseback, wagon and on foot, from every state and territory in the nation and abroad.
	bjsbytes.com /chkstrip.htm (1423 words)

	OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH OF 1889
		The clear spring air, through which the rolling green billows of the promised land could be seen with unusual distinctness for many miles, was as sweet and fresh as the balmy atmosphere of June among New Hampshire's hills.
		Truly the Indians have well-named Oklahoma the "beautiful land." The landless and home-hungry people on the train might be pardoned their mental exhilaration, when the effect of this wonderfully beautiful country upon the most prosaic mind is considered.
		The upland he found to be worthless red sand, and the river-bottoms to be composed of buffalo wallows and a short wiry grass, which indicated to him the presence of land similar to some of the worthless lands of Kansas.
	www.library.cornell.edu /Reps/DOCS/landrush.htm (5688 words)

	LINCOLN COUNTY OKLAHOMA Land Run of 1891 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Lincoln County dates its "beginning" from the Land Run of September 22, 1891, which opened to public settlement three Indian reservations adjoining the former Unassigned Lands on the east.
		This image is the cover scene from Oklahoma Land Run of '91 - A Lincoln County Centennial Salute published in 1991 by the Lincoln County Historical Society.
		It is from an authentic reproduction of the October 3, 1891 Harper's Weekly decpicting the Land Run of 1891 with work of artist W.
	www.rootsweb.com /~oklincol/land.html (128 words)

	Land run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Run of the Cherokee Strip opened 7 000 000 acres (28 000 kmandsup2) settlement on September 16 1893.
		The land purchased from the Cherokees for $7 000 000.
		Regions on the Run (Introductory Map Studies in the Land of the Bible)
	www.freeglossary.com /Land_Run (168 words)

	Arkcity.net: Community - Shot heard across the Prairie 09/17/04
		Several descendants of those who made the Oklahoma land run of 1893 attended Thursday's ceremonies at the Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum, commemorating the event.
		Hynd was one of about 30 people at Thursday's celebration of the 111th anniversary of the largest land run in history.
		Dorf said her mother was born in a dugout built as a temporary shelter on the claim.
	www.arkcity.net /stories/091704/com_0002.shtml (658 words)

	Oklahoma Land Openings 1889-1907 - OkGenWeb
		The Land Tract Books are the records of the first owners of land, showing name, legal description and date of entry for all of Oklahoma Territory.
		The Kaw Indians, once known as the Kansa or Wind People, were compelled by an 1872 law to move from their homes in Kansas to a new reservation in the Indian Territory of present-day Kay County, Oklahoma.
		In 1902 the Kaw Allotment Act distributed the remaining lands and put an end to the legal identity of the Kaw tribe.
	marti.rootsweb.com /land/oklands.html (2604 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The heat and dust of the dry land, the dirt and smell from both animals and men, were overpowering.
		Several trial runs were made into the Cherokee Outlet to determine the claim to run for and the best route to take.
		There were more people running in the race than there was land available, and they knew that they would need all the manpower they had to stake and hold a claim.
	www.okcomputer.org /hoisington/kayco/tickel.htm (2631 words)

	Land run - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Minority rule: With Bush, Cheney & Co. in charge, industry has the run of public lands.
		We were there at the Oklahoma Land Run (We were there books)
		Real covenants and other interests which "run with land": Including licenses, easements, profits, equitable restrictions, and rents
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /land_rush.htm (243 words)

	Oklahoma Photos
		The Federal Government granted seven million acres of land to the Cherokee Nation in treaties of 1828 and 1835.
		President Grover Cleveland designated September 16, 1893 as the date of the "run" for 6,000,000 acres.
		At the time of the 1893 Land Run, there were 7 original counties: O, L, K, P, Q, M and N. It was decided that the inhabitants of each county could select the name after the run.
	www.glensplace.com /OklahomaPhotos.html (575 words)

	Land Run Monument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		More than 2 million acres of unassigned land in the heart of Indian territory were opened to settlement during this first Oklahoma land run.
		In celebration of this historic run and in conjunction with the 100th Anniversary of statehood, the Oklahoma Centennial Commission has engaged renowned sculptor Paul Moore to create a dramatic reenactment of the event.
		All the frenzied energy and emotion from one instant during the 1889 run is captured in bronze - frozen in time and space for all generations.
	www.paulmooresculptor.com /land_run.htm (610 words)

	Open Directory - Regional:North America:United States:Oklahoma:Counties
		Opened to settlement in the Land Run of April 22, 1889, Cleveland was one of the seven counties organized as the Oklahoma Territory in 1890.
		Land Area: 587 square miles, part hills and bluffs and part wide prairie dividing the ridges of the Ozarks to the east and the broad plains to the west.
		Part of the Cheyenne-Arapaho lands opened to settlement in the Land Run of April 19, 1892, this area was settled originally in 1886, when a white man named John M. Seger and 500 Indians left the old Cheyenne-Arapaho Agency at Darlington, near El Reno, and established a colony on the banks of Cobb Creek.
	www.dmoz.org /Regional/North_America/United_States/Oklahoma/Counties/desc.html (17373 words)

	Raymond plans to run for land commissioner
		Raymond, a three-term House member who once served as an executive assistant to Land Commissioner Garry Mauro, is the first Democrat to announce in the race that already has attracted three Republicans.
		The land commissioner oversees the state's 12.3 million acres of public land and also heads the Veterans Land Board, which provides low-interest loans to Texas veterans.
		Another of Raymond's proposals is to establish a lend or lease program that would allow Texas communities to use state land that is standing idle, but isn't economically sensitive, for community needs, such as schools, law enforcement facilities or hospitals.
	www.lubbockonline.com /news/071997/raymond.htm (451 words)

	The Land Run
		The Land Run of '89 and the Oklahoma Territory
		Fist-fights and gun battles occurred, and a number of men were killed in the struggles between the Boomers and Sooners.
		The new Oklahoma Territory contained the reservations of the plains Indians as well as the land settled during the run.
	www.educonnect.com /KeyOk/landrun.htm (743 words)

	Malinda Jane Rainey's Land Run... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		They all had received land grants in Oklahoma, which was to be theirs "forever." But pressure from would-be settlers and the railroads forced the government to reconsider and as of dawn April 22, 1889, thousands of pioneers on foot, horseback, buggies and wagons had lined up at the border of Oklahoma.
		The Second land run was Sept. 16, 1893.
		He was born in Andrew county, Missouri, October 26, 1844, and is a son of John S. and Elizabeth Rainey, nee Sweeney, the former of North Carolina and the latter a native of Carroll County, Tennessee.
	pages.prodigy.net /donnace7/malinda.htm (955 words)

	News-Star OnlineHorace Mann students reenact land run 05/07/02
		They participated in a reenactment of the Oklahoma Land Run, the April 22, 1889 event that opened this area to white settlement and marked the creation of Oklahoma City overnight.
		In the week prior to the land run reenactment, students and teachers saved cans so the students could tote lunches in them, similar to the settlers' supplies.
		After the land run, the students had to decide what type of home to build on their land claims.
	www.news-star.com /stories/050702/edu_51.shtml (447 words)

	Reader Indian Land
		Sure they had possesions like clothes and stuff, but when the settlers came to negotiate land, they didn't understand the meaning of owning something so big and in a way "holy" to them.
		The Indians are being run by the men in grey suits who are using them to wail and whine and thump their drums demanding land they never owned but that they say belongs to them because their ancestors were here before everyone else's ancestors.
		What land they DO own is being used by the men in grey suits to run mega-million dollar gambling and booze operations (aka casinos), tax-free, in exchange for giving the Indians a piece of the action.
	www.orwelltoday.com /readerindianland.shtml (532 words)

	Shawnee News-Star: Central Oklahoma's #1 news source! Teamsters and trailriders relive the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run ...
		Teamsters and trailriders relive the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run 04/19/01
		Teamsters and trailriders relive the 1889 Oklahoma Land Run
		Actually there would be 19 wagons appear as members of the 23rd annual land run ride urged their teams through the gates and circled on the grass-covered hillside in the Beeson's east pasture for a noon rest stop.
	www.news-star.com /stories/041901/nor_wagons.shtml (649 words)

	PEACE PARTY - Stereotype of the Month contest
		One woman wrote she'd been through the same battle when her daughter was expected to participate in playground re-enactments of the Land Run.
		Five more land runs were held from 1889 to 1895.
		The notion that the land was vacant is an old stereotype.
	www.bluecorncomics.com /stype54c.htm (1032 words)

	Cherokee Outlet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In part, the agreement defined land known as the Cherokee Outlet and provided an assurance to the Cherokee Nation of a "perpetual outlet west." The strip of land, running west of the 96th meridian and approximately 57 miles wide, became commonly known as the Cherokee Strip.
		Cattlemen fattened huge herds of cattle on the Cherokee lands before finishing their cattle drives from Texas to the Kansas railheads.
		The opening of the Cherokee Outlet was the fourth, and largest, of Oklahoma's five land runs.
	www.cherokee-strip-museum.org /Outlet.htm (249 words)

	Land Run (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Since they coached opposing club sides in Cape Town in the 1980s, their careers have run almost exactly in parallel, until their paths crossed yesterday when...
		The Oklahoma Land Run, for example, is in the process of having its own monument created.
		OKLAHOMA CITY â“ A dramatic bronze re-enactment of Oklahoma's 1889 Land Run took shape Monday with the dedication of seven more statues as part of a huge...
	land-run.wikiverse.org (171 words)

	The Edmond Sun
		The Land Run, which is typically re-enacted by Edmond students on April 22, was changed by Will Rogers for two primary reasons.
		The students then had to submit their land to the inspection of a claims examiner (volunteer parents) to determine if the sufficient improvements had been made.
		Weathers added she thinks the Land Run re-enactment is a unique and exciting way for the students to learn about history.
	edmondsun.teamemagine.com /story.php?story_id=51445&c=2&... (652 words)

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