First land run opens

Reliving History — Part 1

  • This illustration shows the area of land included in the Land Run of 1889 in central Oklahoma.
  • This map shows Oklahoma Territory after it was opened up to settlement in 1889.
Oklahoma Territory As Oklahoma began as Indian Territory and unassigned land, it was illegal to attempt to settle or claim the land as one’s own. President Rutherford B. Hayes issued a proclamation April 26, 1879 — which forbade trespassing into these lands. However, there was an immediate public uproar in regard to the aforementioned proclamation. Newspapers at this time deemed this group of…

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