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	Land run - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Land run usually refers to a historical event in which previously-restricted land was opened to settlement by settlers for homesteading.
		April 19, 1892: Land run to settle the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands.
		The Oklahoma Centennial Land Run Monument is currently being constructed in Norman, Oklahoma to commemorate the Land Run of 1889.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Land_run (267 words)

	Land Run of 1889 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Land Run of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands and included all or part of the modern day Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.
		[1] The land run started at high noon on April 22, 1889 with an estimated 50,000 people lined up for their piece of the available two million acres (3,125 square miles; 8,093 square kilometers).
		The Indian Appropriations Bill of 1889 was passed and signed into law with an amendment by Illinois Representative William McKendree Springer, that authorized President Benjamin Harrison to open the two million acres for settlement.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oklahoma_Land_Race (527 words)

	LAND RUN of 1889 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		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 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.
		In the spring of 1889 the largest accumulations of would-be settlers massed in camps at the Kansas border towns, mainly at the railroad towns of Arkansas City and Caldwell.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/landrun.htm (1690 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 Openings 1889-1907 - OkGenWeb
		Oklahoma's lands were opened in five land runs, land lottery, land auction and enlarged by a decision of the Supreme Court.
		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.
		Lincoln and Pottawatomie Counties (formerly counties "A" and "B") date their 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.
	marti.rootsweb.com /land/oklands.html (2562 words)

	Guthrie, Oklahoma - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Guthrie was founded during the Land Run of 1889, growing from a population of zero to 10,000 in a single day.
		It was the capital of Oklahoma Territory from 1889 until Statehood in 1907, when it became the capital of the new state of Oklahoma.
		Guthrie prospered briefly as the administrative center of the territory for several decades, but was eclipsed in economic influence by Oklahoma City early in the 20th century.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Guthrie,_OK (925 words)

	1889 Land Run, Guthrie, Oklahoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		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)

	Bricktown OKC \| \| History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		From 1889 to 1904, four railroad companies laid ribbons of steel that connected the land-locked prairie community to the rest of the world.
		From 1889 to the 1930s Bricktown was a battleground for social justice and the birthplace of cultural diversity in Oklahoma City.
		It began when some of the first 200 African-Americans attracted by the land run settled in Sandtown, located along the north bank of the river east of the Santa Fe tracks.
	www.bricktownokc.com /history.shtml (1470 words)

	CNHI News Service Bigger than life, art depicts land run
		Moore’s grandfather, Allison Moore, was in the land run of 1889.
		It is meant to commemorate all five land runs, not just the one in which his grandfather failed to wind up with land.
		At the end of the canal opposite Bricktown’s thick cluster of restaurants, bars and attractions, the land has an open, natural feel on the hill where the bronze figures are rising from the grass.
	www.cnhins.com /arts/cnhinsart_story_276160715.html (777 words)

	Greater Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce - About the Chamber - Chamber History
		The historic land run of 1889 settled the Oklahoma City area in a single day.
		In the 1940's, the Chamber purchased land at the city's airport to preserve it for aviation and military development.
		The greatest development plan for Oklahoma City since the Land Run of 1889 is the Metropolitan Area Projects plan.
	www.okcchamber.com /page.asp?atomid=218 (672 words)

	The Land Run of 1889 - dontdream.it
		In March 1889 U.S. President Benjamin Harrison declared the Unassigned Lands of the Oklahoma Country open for settlement.
		The Land Run started April 22 at noon; to participate in the run, one had to be the head of a family and at least eighteen years old.
		After staking a claim, participants had to register their claim at a designated land office, and had to settle on the claim within six months to avoid losing it.
	www.dontdream.it /en?p=30 (196 words)

	OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH OF 1889
		In 1889 the opening to white settlement of a choice portion of Indian Territory in Oklahoma set off one of the most bizarre and chaotic episodes of town founding in world history.
		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.
	www.library.cornell.edu /Reps/DOCS/landrush.htm (5688 words)

	BatesLine: Land run, Hawaiian war chant, new GOP chief, a visit to Dustbury
		Land run, Hawaiian war chant, new GOP chief, a visit to Dustbury
		There was a re-enactment of the 1889 Land Run, complete with covered wagons.
		When my 3rd grade class had a land run (34 years ago, on the football field at Holland Hall's 26th and Birmingham "Eight Acres" campus), it was every man for himself.
	www.batesline.com /archives/002519.html (904 words)

	History of the Inn - Oklahoma Bed and Breakfast, Guthrie, OK, B&B, lodging accommodations, Oklahoma City, Victorian ...
		Although similar means of handing out free land by the government occurred on several occasions afterward, none were quite so wild and reckless, because the problems encountered in the first run were examined carefully, and future runs were planned accordingly.
		Those who made that first run were briefed that they could claim either a quarter section (160 acres) for farming purposes or a 25' by 125' lot in one of the areas designated as town sites, which were limited in size by law to 320 acres, in order to preserve adequate land for food production.
		The problem was that it was soon evident on the day of the run that a half section of land would not be nearly enough to contain all of the people who wished to have town lots in Guthrie.
	www.victoriangardenbb.com /history.htm (1751 words)

	Land Run of the New Century (Lutheran Ministries - Partners Magazine)
		In just a few days, children in the Lone Wolf school will reenact the land run of 1889.
		The famous run of the 89ers took place on April 22, 1889 and included an estimated fifty thousand seeking to make their claims on the Unassigned Lands.
		As I researched just a little about these dramatic days, I found that these land runs did not give immediate claim to their suitors.
	www.lutheranok.com /partners/2002/0414.htm (722 words)

	Oklahoma State Senate Artwork - Oklahoma City - April 29, 1889
		This painting depicts Oklahoma City seven days after the Land Run of 1889.
		The settlers came from three directions - the North, the East, and the South, by railroad, horse, buggy and wagon, and by foot.
		The rest was prairie land with low curving hills covered with high grass and thick timber.
	www.oksenate.gov /senate_artwork/oklahoma_city.html (187 words)

	Welcome to Historic Fort Reno
		The Fort Reno troops helped locate and made several evictions of the "Boomers" from the Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory for ten years prior to the opening for settlement by the 1889 land run.
		The second Land Run involving Fort Reno soldiers was the opening of part of the Cheyenne and Arapaho reservation on April 19, 1892.
		Prior to the land run, each member of the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribe received an individual allotment of land.
	www.fortreno.org /history.htm (2586 words)

	The Land Run
		The Land Run of '89 and the Oklahoma Territory
		The new Oklahoma Territory contained the reservations of the plains Indians as well as the land settled during the run.
		It had once been known as "No Man’s Land." It was a place where all kinds of criminals hid out.
	www.educonnect.com /KeyOk/landrun.htm (743 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.
		After the Civil War, the tribes were forced to sell the land to the federal government at 60 cents to $1.25 an acre.
		The notion that the land was vacant is an old stereotype.
	www.bluecorncomics.com /stype54c.htm (1032 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Settlers from across the globe, seeking free land, made their way to the prairies of the plains to stake their claim to a new life.
		One of the few rules to claiming a lot of land was that all participants were to start at the same time.
		And Oklahoma was the Sooner State, the land of opportunity, enterprise and economic expansion, very much in the Progressive spirit that engulfed the old South in the 1920's.
	www.ou.edu /student/isaatou/sooners.htm (346 words)

	Oklahoma capitol
		It was a fitting birthplace for Oklahoma's State Capitol, a wind-swept parcel of prairie claimed during the Land Run of 1889 when, in a span of one day, thousands of itinerant settlers pitched their tents in what would become Oklahoma City.
		Residing on fifteen acres of land and housing 650 rooms the completed capitol in 1917 cost 1.5 million dollars, approximately twenty-five cents per square foot.
		The original designs called for a dome to be built on the state capitol, but Oklahoma's house of government remains one of only twelve capitols in the United States without a dome.
	www.seminolenation-indianterritory.org /oklahoma_capitol.htm (650 words)

	SOONERS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		"SOONER." Sooner is the name first applied about six months after the Land Run of 1889 to people who entered the Oklahoma District (Unassigned Lands) before the designated time.
		Illegal claimants were initially called "moonshiners," because they entered the area "by the light of the moon." Sooners or moonshiners hid out in brush or ravines, then suddenly appeared to stake a claim after the run started, giving them clear advantage over law-abiding settlers who made the run from the borders.
		As might be expected, the clamor against sooners resulted in numerous contests and appeals to the General Land Office and in unclear title to some claims for many years.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /enc/sooner.htm (467 words)

	TravelOK.com: Sample Itineraries
		Oklahoma is a land of many cultures and this tour will trace those cultures, showing you the diversity of our state and its people.
		Italians came to mine the coal, Amish to work the land and immigrants from Ireland, Russia, Germany to escape hunger and religious and political persecution.
		Next you will tour Oklahoma City -- the city that was built in a single day thanks to the famous land run of 1889, On the morning of April 22, 1889, Oklahoma City was a township for the Santa Fe Railroad and by nightfall, it was a tent city of 10,000.
	www.travelok.com /travelProf/tours_packages.asp?id=9 (1717 words)

	Robert E. Cunningham Oklahoma History Collection - images \| Dickinson Research Center
		Waiting for land run at Purcell, Oklahoma Territory, 1889.
		Land run crossing on a railroad bridge, 1889.
		Troopers guarding Atchinson, Topeka and Santa Fe trains during land run, 1889.
	www.nationalcowboymuseum.org /research/r_a_cunn_imag_lr89.html (111 words)

	Payne County
		Payne County was opened to settlement in the Oklahoma land run of 1889.
		The land run took place April 22, 1889; overnight businesses sprang up, schools and churches were built, and farmers began planting crops.
		In December of 1890, the state's land grant university, Oklahoma AandM, was established in Stillwater.
	www.paynecounty.org (91 words)

	Travel: Oklahoma is, or will be, OK
		Generations later, part of the territory was opened to settlement with an organized land run in 1889.
		In 1889, Belle Starr, known as "the Bandit Queen," was killed when shot off her horse from ambush.
		Next April will be the 75th commemoration of the Land Run of 1889, into what was the Unassigned Lands in the center of Indian Territory - this was the first land run (also called land rush) into present-day Oklahoma, which brought about the establishment of Oklahoma Territory.
	www.sptimes.com /2003/12/21/news_pf/Travel/Oklahoma_is__or_will_.shtml (2111 words)

	Amazon.com: Prairie Song: Books: Cheryl Anne Porter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-10)
		Cole knows Kate is running from something but agrees to marry her for the sake of the children.
		Several elements of this novel were compelling, particularly the setting of the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 and the way the heroine Kate comes to terms with a situation most women would find crushing.
		In Oklahoma, Kate learns that for a woman to participate in the Land Run, she must be either twenty-one or married.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312972911?v=glance (2125 words)

	The World of John Steinbeck's Joads - Questia Online Library
		In outline, the geography of the first part of the novel is fairly simple: the narrative begins with Tom Joad near the end of his journey from McAlester State Prison northeast to the farm where his family live as tenants.
		The land is so flat that a truck travels a mile to the first turn and the "distance, toward the horizon, was tan to invisibility."
		The dirt and dust are red; the land is under intense cultivation except where it is "going back to sparse brush" (37).
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=95710662 (812 words)

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