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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Land Rush of 1889 (redirect from Oklahoma land rush of 1889)
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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Historical regions of the United States (redirect from Historic incorporated territory of the United States)
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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Wild Bunch (redirect from Oklahoma Long Riders)
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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