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    35°24′N 97°00′W / 35.4°N 97°W / 35.4; -97 The Territory of Oklahoma was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from May 2...
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    The Oklahoma Panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern...
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    organized territories of the United States. The 1906 Oklahoma Enabling Act created the single state of Oklahoma by combining Oklahoma Territory and Indian...
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    county in Oklahoma. The county seat is Oklahoma City, the state capital and largest city. Oklahoma County is at the heart of the Oklahoma City metropolitan...
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    The governor of Oklahoma is the head of government of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Oklahoma Territory was organized on May 2, 1890. It had seven governors...
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    Before statehood in 1907, modern day-Oklahoma was composed of Oklahoma and Indian territories. While Indian Territory was semi-independent of the federal...
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    of Indian Territory. He envisioned an all exclusive American Indian state controlled by the United States bureau of Indian Affairs. Oklahoma later became...
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    From 1890 to 1907 Oklahoma split into two territories known as Oklahoma Territory in the west and Indian Territory in the east. Oklahoma became the 46th...
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    delegations from Oklahoma to the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate. The current dean of the Oklahoma delegation is Representative...
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    same route through Oklahoma Territory. On March 2, 1887, the U.S. Congress approved construction of a railroad through Indian Territory. The Chicago, Kansas...
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    1890, it was a separate organized territory known as Cimarron Territory. After becoming part of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890, Beaver County (first called...
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    landmarks were named for, a man named King Fisher. The bill that opened Oklahoma Territory to non-Indian settlement limited the sizes of townsites to 320 acres...
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    as the capital of Oklahoma Territory from 1890 until 1907 and of the state of Oklahoma from 1907 until 1910. Following the Oklahoma Organic Act of 1890...
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    County Four of Oklahoma Territory as part of the Oklahoma Organic Act, which created Oklahoma Territory from part of Indian Territory. It was named after...
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    The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land run into the Unassigned Lands of the former western portion of the federal Indian Territory, which had...
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    of Oklahoma. Located in western Oklahoma, approximately 87 mi (140 km) southwest of Oklahoma City, it is the principal city of the Lawton, Oklahoma, metropolitan...
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    state of Oklahoma. As of the 2020 census, the population was 26,945. Its county seat is Anadarko. Created in 1901 as part of Oklahoma Territory, the county...
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    that part of western Oklahoma which was included in County H of the Territory of Oklahoma, an organized incorporated territory of the United States that...
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  • Lynn Riggs's Green Grow the Lilacs, a play about settlers in Oklahoma Indian Territory. Though the play was not successful, ten years later in 1941,...
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    inhabitants. Haskell built the first five-story business block in Oklahoma Territory; he built and owned fourteen brick buildings in the city. Most importantly...
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    Land run (redirect from Oklahoma Land Race)
    University) "Land Run Monument" photos, Oklahoma City Official Website Maps of Oklahoma and Indian Territory in the Oklahoma State University Digital Maps Collection...
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    States Indian Territory, it also utilized the title “Choctaw Republic”. Since 1971, it is officially referred to as the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma. The Choctaw...
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    California Cherokee Outlet; $7,000,000; purchased 1893; Oklahoma Territory (eventually Oklahoma) Cherokee Strip; a disputed two-mile wide tract of land...
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    in the Indian Territory in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were active in Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, and Oklahoma Territory during the 1890s—robbing...
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    Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad) built a line west from the Seminole Nation into Oklahoma Territory. The town was located one-half mile inside Oklahoma Territory...
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    Indian Territory. Miami is the capital of the federally recognized Miami Tribe of Oklahoma, after which it is named; the Modoc Tribe of Oklahoma, the Ottawa...
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    partly from the Chickasaw Nation in Indian Territory and partly from Comanche County in Oklahoma Territory. It was named for Texas politician John Hall...
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    county seat is Lawton. The county was created in 1901 as part of Oklahoma Territory. It was named for the Comanche tribal nation. Comanche County is included...
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  • Pennsylvania, U.S. Oklahoma City, the capital of the state of Oklahoma, U.S. Oklahoma County, Oklahoma in central Oklahoma, U.S. Oklahoma Territory, an organized...
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    Kingfisher, Payne, and Beaver) when it was first organized as the Oklahoma Territory. These counties were designated numerically, first through seventh...
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