1889 : the boomer movement, the land run, and early Oklahoma City /

1889 : the boomer movement, the land run, and early Oklahoma City /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hightower, Michael J., author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2018]
Description:	xvi, 328 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Oklahoma Land Rush (1889) Public lands -- Oklahoma -- 19th century. Frontier and pioneer life -- Oklahoma. Frontier and pioneer life. Public lands. Oklahoma -- History -- Land Rush, 1889. Oklahoma City (Okla.) -- History -- 19th century. Oklahoma. Oklahoma -- Oklahoma City. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11709236

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Varying Form of Title:	Eighteen eighty-nine, the boomer movement, the land run, and early Oklahoma City
ISBN:	9780806160702 0806160705
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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 the 320-acre townsite that became Oklahoma City."--Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents:

Indian territory to 1885
Antecedents
Wars and reservations
On to Oklahoma!
Four cattle kings
Boomers
Our sorrow
The run
A big boom
Endgame
Everybody at sea
City building
Born grown
Status quo
1890.