Land Rush of 1889
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The Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of the former western portion of the federal Indian Territory, which had decades earlier since the 1830s been assigned to the Cre
The land rush in progress
David L. Payne
U.S. land office after the Land Rush of 1889.
"The Oklahoma Land Rush, April 22, 1889", by John Steuart Curry
Sooners
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Sooners is the name given to settlers who entered the Unassigned Lands illegally in what is now the state of Oklahoma before the official start of the Land Rush of 1889. The Unassigned Lands were a pa
Land Rush of 1889
…land early and hid there until the legal time of entry to lay quick claim to some of the most choice homesteads. These people came to be identified as "Sooners". This led to hundreds of legal contests that were decided first at local land offices and eventually by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Arguments…
Unassigned Lands – 1885