Letters From The Oklahoma Land Run

Author : Kent Brooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781690997795
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from the Oklahoma Land Run written by Kent Brooks and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These letters were sent from Indian Territory by those seeking land in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. The adventurous writers sent home bits and pieces of news about new vocations, deaths, murders, births, fights, shootings, politics, prices for commodities and more. These land seekers, correspondents, cowboys and other citizens writing these letters provide a great historical record of the settlement of Indian Territory and the American west during the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889.

Author : Kjelgaard Jim
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781318988235
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run written by Kjelgaard Jim and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Author : Jim Kjelgaard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run written by Jim Kjelgaard and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael J. Hightower
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806162341
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1889 written by Michael J. Hightower and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up “within a fortnight,” the city’s residents adopted the slogan “born grown” to describe their new home. But the territory’s creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889, Michael J. Hightower’s revealing look at a moment in history that, in all its turmoil and complexity, transcends the myth. Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies. Against this fraught background, 1889 travels back and forth between Washington, D.C., and the Oklahoma frontier to describe the politics of settlement, public land use, and the first stirrings of urban development. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Hightower captures the drama of the Boomer incursions and the Run of ’89, as well as the nascent urbanization of the townsite that would become Oklahoma City. All of these events played out in a political vacuum until Congress officially created Oklahoma Territory in the Organic Act of May 1890. The story of central Oklahoma is profoundly American, showing the region to have been a crucible for melding competing national interests and visions of the future. Boomers, businessmen, cattlemen, soldiers, politicians, pundits, and African and Native Americans squared off—sometimes peacefully, often not—in disagreements over public lands that would resonate in western history long after 1889.

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ISBN 13 : 9781566960465
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oklahoma Land Rush written by and published by . This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oklahoma Land Rush was the greatest giveaway of land in history The government sponsored a series of races & lotteries in which thousands of settlers completed for lands formerly occupied by Indians. Farm, homesteads & cities were created. This Jackdaw tells the story of how land promised to the Indians in perpetuity was opened to white settlement. But it also tells of the homesteaders who struggled to establish civilization on the unsettled frontier. Five Broadsheet Essays * The Permanent Solution * The Impossible Dream * Harrison's Hoss Race * The Homesteaders * Statehood & Beyond Eleven Historical Documents * Sequoyah's Cherokee alphabet, 1821. * A congressional act to provide for an exchange of lands with the Indians & for their removal west of the Mississippi River, 1829, & a transcript. * Certificate from President James Polk to an Indian chief, 1846. * Boomer broadside: "Grand Rush for the Indian Territory," 1879. * A license to trade with Indians, 1883. * A map of the Indian Territory, 1885. * The first page of a presidential proclamation by Benjamin Harrison announcing the opening of the Oklahoma lands, 1889, & a transcript. * A map of the territory opened to settlement, 1889. * An application & final certificate for a homestead claim. * The first page of the act to provide a temporary government for the Territory of Oklahoma, 1889, & a transcript. * A presidential proclamation by Theodore Roosevelt admitting Oklahoma into the Union as a state, 1907.

Author : Hugh Hagius
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 061570512X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family Letters of Wilhelmina Boehm Ney (1835-1923) written by Hugh Hagius and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilhelmina Boehm was born in Saxony in 1835 and came to America as a girl. At 18 she was married to Fred Ney, aged 21, in Arnheim, Ohio. Fred and Minna farmed first in Ohio, and then in Illinois, and then in Louisiana. Their family grew to eleven sons and daughters, forty grandchildren, and a lot of great-grand-children. In their old age they went to live with a daughter in Medford, Oklahoma, where Fred died in 1919 at the age of 87, and Minna in 1923, also at 87. Most of the letters in this volume were written by Minna from Medford to her daughter Eliza Hagius, but it includes also a number of other family letters and documents. The letters give a day-to-day picture of farm life in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and what it was to live through World War I and the Spanish Influenza epidemic. They also portray the progress of a large family as it spread westward to the Pacific, and moved off the farm and into the towns and cities.

Author : Kathlyn Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780865460249
Total Pages : 131 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 89ers written by Kathlyn Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kenneth J. Peek
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439630208
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Observer, Letters from Oklahoma Territory written by Kenneth J. Peek and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: R.H. Wessel was the owner, editor, and publisher of the Frederick Enterprise / Frederick Press, and a leading citizen from the day he first came to Frederick, Oklahoma, in 1902 until his death in 1956. He is best known for his column "The Observer," for which this book is titled. He left behind a considerable legacy of his adventurous life through letters, photographs, documents, and historic files. His experiences in Lawton during the 1901 Land Lottery and the following homestead years in Frederick are covered in this book. As a newspaperman, with a love for telling a story, his letters are an incredible documentation of life on the Oklahoma frontier, as well as his love story by mail with Margaret Scow, the bride he brought to Oklahoma after "proving up" on his homestead and obtaining his own newspaper.

Author : Una Belle Townsend
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781589805668
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oklahoma Land Run written by Una Belle Townsend and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine-year-old Jesse convinces his injured father to let him drive the wagon during the 1889 Oklahoma Land Rush.

Author : Sam Anderson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804137323
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boom Town written by Sam Anderson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.