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	Land run - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Land run, or land grab, usually refers to a historical event in which previously-restricted land of the United States was opened to settlement by settlers for homesteading.
		Land Run of 1889 took place at high noon on April 22, 1889 and involved the settlement of the Unassigned Lands (most of modern day Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties).
		The Oklahoma Centennial Land Run Monument is currently being constructed in Norman, Oklahoma to commemorate the Land Run of 1889.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oklahoma_land_rush (264 words)

	Land Rush - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Land Rush, officially sanctioned race for land that had been opened to white settlement.
		Oklahoma Land Rush, a government-sponsored race on April 22, 1889, in which some 50,000 home seekers rode or ran to claim land in what is now Oklahoma.
		Land, in the law of real property, term including the surface of the earth, the land beneath the surface to the center of the earth, and the air...
	ca.encarta.msn.com /Land_Rush.html (125 words)

	The Museum Gazette (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The law was intended to open western lands to settlement by allowing those filing a claim to settle on up to 160 acres of unappropriated federal land for five years.
		Land offices were built at Guthrie and Kingfisher so settlers could register their claims with the government as required by the Homestead Act.
		This land had been lucrative to the tribes because cattlemen were charged a toll per head to drive their cattle across it to market.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/Gazettes/OKLandRush.html (1657 words)

	Prime Times - Hank Henry - Dad had wild ride in Oklahoma Land Rush
		Dad was born in 1881, which made him 8 years old when the biggest of the land rushes took place.
		The land had belonged to Indian tribes who were forced to give it up because they had supported the South during the Civil War.
		Dad's mother and his older brothers approached the land they had chosen with apprehension, but they were lucky that no one had arrived there before them.
	www.mailtribune.com /primet/archive/2000/020100p2.htm (638 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.
		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.
		As the white settlers pushed for even more land the government began to make treaties with the Indians that began a process of allotment whereby each individual member of a tribe would be given their own lot of land.
	marti.rootsweb.com /land/oklands.html (2562 words)

	Built in a Day: The Oklahoma Land Rush :: Jefferson National Expansion Memorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Though land speculators, wealthy farmers, and railroads grabbed much of the available land, the Homestead Act was very successful in encouraging people to move west.
		Once in Oklahoma, they were placed on lands that the government claimed would be theirs "for as long as the stars shall shine and the rivers may flow." No one, including the members of the U.S. Congress, could foresee the rapid westward expansion looming just over the American horizon.
		Then, before these "unassigned lands" were filled, the Creeks and Seminoles were convinced to sell 1,887,796 acres to the United States, which included part of the land settled by the Cheyenne and Arapaho.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/oklahoma_rush.html (680 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.
		Oklahoma's capitol holds the distinction, however, as the only state capitol designed to have a dome that was never built.
		In 1934, the State Seal of Oklahoma was inlaid in the ceiling, enhancing the faux dome effect.
	www.seminolenation-indianterritory.org /oklahoma_capitol.htm (650 words)

	hist0422
		By registering, Indians were told, they would be allotted 160 acres of land per family in advance of the Land Rush and thus be restituted for 100 years of genocide against them.
		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.
	nativenewsonline.org /history/hist0422.html (2112 words)

	The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893
		There had been a number of previous land rushes in the Territory - but this was the big one.
		By the time of the Oklahoma land rush of 1893, America was in the grip of the worst economic depression it had ever experienced.
		The impact of the land rush was immediate, transforming the land almost overnight.
	www.eyewitnesstohistory.com /landrush.htm (1339 words)

	OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH OF 1889
		The rush from the line was so impetuous that by the time the first railway train arrived from the north at twenty-five minutes past twelve o'clock, only a few of the hundreds of boomers were anywhere to be seen.
		After the first rush had subsided, however, there was no lack of food, and by the sinking of a number of wells there was a plentiful supply of water, so that the city of Guthrie in the matter of food and drink was no worse off than the ordinary frontier town.
		The original boomers who caused Oklahoma to be opened for settlement have much to be responsible for, not the last of which are the tears and cries of hungry children, who look about for bread and see only the red sand shimmering in the heated air.
	www.library.cornell.edu /Reps/DOCS/landrush.htm (5688 words)

	Welcome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Now is your chance to buy a ranch land claim on a working horse ranch in the Heart of Oklahoma and in the middle of these great United States for just $25.00.
		Oklahoma is the Native American State, with more Native Americans than Arizona and New Mexico combined.
		From your land you can watch horses and sometime dear graze in the pasture and drink from the lake near by or on your own land.
	ssl.catalog.com /~pam/index.html (330 words)

	Oklahoma History Teaching Resources by Cindy Downes - Oklahoma Homeschool
		Oklahoma History is usually required in public schools in 4th grade, 8th grade, and again in high school.
		Short biographies of Oklahoma's Territorial Women including Mary Alice Murray (Indian Princess), Rachel Haines (Boomer who lost her claim), Bethsheba (the all women town where steers, roosters, or males of any species were not allowed), Belle Starr (outlaw), Mary Rogers (mother of Will Rogers) and many more.
		A fiction story of a family who made the land run of 1893, were beaten out of the plot they wanted by a “Sooner”, and settled on a less-favored spot.
	www.oklahomahomeschool.com /teachOKH.html (1869 words)

	Oklahoma Land Records
		Land records for the nations were filed under their respective Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) agency.
		No centralized repository exists for the land allotments given the natives, but original allotments for all but the Five Civilized Tribes are on microfilm at the Indian Archives at the Oklahoma Historical Society.
		The Oklahoma Historical Society holds land descriptions and plat maps for some allotments; originals are at the BIA in Muskogee, Oklahoma, or the National Archives in Fort Worth, Texas.
	www.land-records.com /land-records/oklahoma-land-records.htm (356 words)

	A New Oklahoma Land Rush - Site Selection magazine, Dec 97/Jan 98
		century ago, a shot fired at high noon signaled the start of the famous Oklahoma land rush, when tens of thousands of pioneers literally raced by foot, horseback and covered wagon to stake their claim to new opportunities in a young territory.
		Today a new, quieter kind of Oklahoma land rush is under way, aimed at newcomers more likely to arrive by corporate jet to a state attracting wide attention with unprecedented business and industry investment incentives.
		Oklahoma is making billion-dollar investments in its roads and a massive new industrial shell building program to ease Corporate America's way to a state with land enough still for the next century's newcomers.
	www.conway.com /ok/9712 (361 words)

	Oklahoma Land Rush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Here is some great information about the Oklahoma Land Rush also known as the Cherokee Strip Land Run.
		Oklahoma Land Rush - Here you will find a letter written by Newton Locke in November 5, 1893 to his brother.
		Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum - The museum is being repaired.
	www.rit.edu /~kecncp/Courses/Materials/FarAndAway/Research/okla-lr.htm (244 words)

	Memoirs-OklahomaLandRush
		I was still living in western Kansas when Oklahoma was opened up for settlement.
		It was impossible to sleep during the night as there was a lot of excitement.
		I lived on my claim a year and a half and paid one dollar and a quarter an acre and the claim was mine.
	www.minerd.com /memoir-oklahomalandrush.htm (781 words)

	OKLAHOMA PAINT HORSE CLUB (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		All APHA regular and breeding stock registered 2007 foals sired by a stallion that sold in the 2006 LAND RUSH Auction will be eligible to compete in the yearling halter futurity, at the 2008 Land Rush Futurity Show.
		C. All APHA regular and breeding stock registry 2007 foals sired by a stallion that sold in the 2006 LAND RUSH auction will be eligible to compete in the Two Year Old Snaffle Bit at the 2009 Land Rush Futurity Show, regardless if shown as a weanling or yearling.
		All actions of the LAND RUSH committee must be approved by the OPHC Executive Board.
	www.oklahomaphc.com /landrush.htm (943 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Oklahoma Land Rush (4/22/1889) - Feb. 24th, 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Oklahoma prairie was green with the new year, a little glimpse of paradise to the thousands of land-starved pioneers.
		A "land office" business was done in groceries and supplies, and in every sort of conveyance, including some wagons so feeble that even the "horses hung their heads in shame" when hitched to them.
		The University of Oklahoma was founded in 1890 as the people chose the University instead of the Capitol -- OU is the Sooners and before every football game and during the game you will hear "Boomer" yelled answered by "Sooner" from the whole stadium.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1349925/posts (8038 words)

	Department of the Interior: Museum Services Branch. Interior Building WPA Murals: The Oklahoma Land Rush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Oklahoma Land Rush, April 22, 1889 depicts the race at full tilt.
		Riders dash forward, the drivers stand as they urge on their galloping horses.
		Note that Curry's address is painted on the side of the wagon.
	www.doi.gov /museum/murals/rush.html (78 words)

	Oklahoma Land Rush - MSN Encarta
		purchase of the land from Native Americans and opening for settlement, see Oklahoma: History
		law under which land was claimed for free, see Homestead Laws
		There are ways to lessen the burden of this expense.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761586815/Oklahoma_Land_Rush.html (113 words)

	Welcome to the University of Oklahoma Press - home
		On a fateful day in 1889, the Oklahoma land rush begins, and for thousands of settlers the future is up for grabs.
		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.
	www.oupress.com /bookdetail.asp?isbn=0-8061-3721-5 (272 words)

	Land Run Monument (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		It has been called the greatest rush for land in the history of mankind.
		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 total, it is the timeless appeal of adventure and the struggle of man against man and man against nature.
	www.paulmooresculptor.com /land_run.htm (610 words)

	NewMexiKen » The Oklahoma land rush…
		By the 1880s most of the arable, well-watered land west of the Mississippi had been settled by whites, and land-hungry settlers began to argue that the Indian Territory should be opened to white settlement.
		Violations occurred frequently, and agitation for the opening of the lands to whites increased.
		The number of home seekers far exceeded the available land, so the government decided to have settlers line up at the border and simply run to claim land after the signal was given.
	newmexiken.com /archives/2004/04/002318.php (464 words)

	Oklahoma Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		During the American Civil War the Five Civilized Tribes fought on both sides, the federal government used this as an excuse to force them to surrender the western half of their lands.
		To increase the amount of land for settlers, the federal government assigned individual allotments of tribal lands to the Indians and took over the remaining land in their reservations for as little as 15 cents an acre, and later land was given away in a lottery.
		In this first Oklahoma land rush homesteaders arrived on foot and on horseback, on wagons and by railroad.
	members.aol.com /ciiisiii/oklahomapage/oklahoma.htm (1038 words)

	El Reno Oklahoma - Home of the Oklahoma Land Rush
		On April 22, 1889, the unassigned lands of the area were opened up for settlement, which quickly became known as the great
		When the signal was given along the outer boundaries, the Fort Reno soldiers were assigned to keep order among the many rushing pioneers flooding the area.
		Apache tribes were the final lands opened to white settlers.
	www.legendsofamerica.com /OK-ElReno.html (614 words)

	OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH AUCTION
		Oklahoma Land Rush Auction will be held March 22, 2005, @ 5:00 pm.
		LAND RUSH AUCTION" are some of the finest land tracts in Oklahoma.
		SEE YOU AT THE "OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH AUCTION".
	www.landrushauction.com (138 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95048791
		In the late 1880s, signs went up all around America-- land was free in the Oklahoma territory.
		Richly illustrated by Coretta Scott King Award honoree Floyd Cooper, I Have Heard of a Land is a glorious tribute to the Afrian-American pioneer spirit.
		It is a hymn to liberty and unity, an ode to a land where what can be dreamed can be accomplished.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/hc041/95048791.html (305 words)

	Find in a Library: The Oklahoma land rush.
		Find in a Library: The Oklahoma land rush.
		Subjects: Public lands -- Oklahoma -- History -- 19th century -- Sources.
		WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries.
	www.worldcatlibraries.org /wcpa/ow/6c34bae6e999d1a6.html (55 words)

	Beautiful Land: A Story Of The Oklahoma Land Rush; Author: Antle, Nancy; Illustrator Gampert, John; Illustrator: ...
		Beautiful Land: A Story Of The Oklahoma Land Rush; Author: Antle, Nancy; Illustrator Gampert, John; Illustrator: Gampert, John; Paperback
		On April 22, 1889, thousands of settlers surged across the Oklahoma border in a race to claim some beautiful land of their own.
		Black-and-white illustrations.After a two-year wait during which her mother died, twelve-year-old Annie Mae and her family join thousands of hopeful settlers as they race to claim land in the newly-opened Oklahoma Territory.
	www.netstoreusa.com /jubooks/014/0140368086.shtml (257 words)

	The Last Land Rush (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On September 16, 1893, 15,000 land hungry whites gathered here to make "the Run" into the Cherokee Outlet to the south.
		Caldwell was 1 of 9 places where over 100,000 potential settlers awaited cavalry soldiers' gunshots to start the last land rush in the United States.
		The Outlet, commonly, but incorrectly, referred to as the "Strip", contained 6,000,000 acres and roughly laid between Caldwell, Stillwater, and the Oklahoma Panhandle.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /history/landrush.html (190 words)

	Oklahoma land rush - Wiktionary
		The chaotic period following the opening of Indian territory to settlement in 1889 as the US state of Oklahoma.
		The Oklahoma land rush was a pivotal event in the history of the American West.
		This page was last modified 14:16, 9 July 2005.
	en.wiktionary.org /wiki/Oklahoma_land_rush (51 words)

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