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  The Great Oklahoma Land Rush of  1893 At precisely twelve noon on September 16, 1893 a cannon's boom unleashed the largest land rush America ever saw. Carried by all kinds of transportation - horses, wagons, trains, bicycles or on foot - an estimated 100,000 raced to claim plots of land in an area of land in northern Oklahoma Territory known as the Cherokee Strip. There had been a number of previous land rushes in the Territory - but this was the big one. The Great Land Rush Begins In 1828 Congress designated the land that would become Oklahoma as Indian Territory. White settlers were required to leave, and a number of tribes from the East and South were forcibly moved into the area from their ancestral lands. Chief among these were the Five Civilized Tribes - the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole - who allied themselves with the South during the Civil War. Following the war, the US government looked upon these tribes as defeated enemies. This animosity combin...

  The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889  The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first  land run  into the  Unassigned Lands  of former  Indian Territory , which had earlier been assigned to the  Creek  and  Seminole  peoples. The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the  Canadian ,  Cleveland ,  Kingfisher ,  Logan ,  Oklahoma , and  Payne  counties of the present-day US state of  Oklahoma . [1] The land run started at high noon on April 22, 1889. An estimated 50,000 people were lined up at the start, seeking to gain a piece of the available two million acres (8,100 km 2 ). [2] The Unassigned Lands were considered some of the best unoccupied public land in the United States. The  Indian Appropriations Act  of 1889 was passed and signed into law with an amendment by Representative  William McKendree Springer  ( R - IL ) that authorized Pres...