1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City
Michael J. Hightower, "1889: The Boomer Movement, the Land Run, and Early Oklahoma City"
English | ISBN: 0806160705 | 2018 | 344 pages | PDF | 36 MB
English | ISBN: 0806160705 | 2018 | 344 pages | PDF | 36 MB
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,
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