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1889 - The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City (Paperback)
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1889 - The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City (Paperback)
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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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