"Examines how key aspects of the Gilded Age contributed to the push for homesteading and townsite development in central Indian Territory that escalated in the 1870s, crystallized in the 1880s, and ended with the Run of '89; and examines the first stirrings of urbanization in th…
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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--som…
"Examines how key aspects of the Gilded Age contributed to the push for homesteading and townsite development in central Indian Territory that escalated in the 1870s, crystallized in the 1880s, and ended with the Run of '89; and examines the first stirrings of urbanization in th…