Oklahoma Land Rush Images

The Gallery of the Frontier and the National Archiveshave images available on the Oklahoma Land Rush:
Troop 'C,' 5th Cavalry, which arrested boomers and squatters prior
to opening of Oklahoma, ca. 1888
Drawing for Kiowa, Commanche, Apache and Wichita Indian Lands:
Oklahoma, 1901. Crowds
Drawing for Kiowa, Commanche, Apache and Wichita Indian Lands:
Oklahoma, 1901. Men inside tent.
Drawing for Kiowa, Commanche, Apache and Wichita Indian Lands:
Oklahoma, 1901. Travelers, buses, trains. held 10 am July 29, 1901. The tops of the freighter cars furnished seats for some 30,000 people who witnessed this drawing.
Oklahoma claim 1889 near Fort Reno, IT.
In Line At The Land Office, Perry, Sept. 23, 1893. 9 o'clock A.M. waiting to file.
Clerical force & U.S. Deputy Marshalls, U.S. Land Office, Perry, Okla. Terr. Oct. 12, 1893.
The Nine Booths at Orlando [Okla. Terr.] Sept. 15th, (18)'93, Where 36,000 Registered.
Looking For A Town Lot. Guthrie, Ind. Terr. [Oklahoma], ca. 1889.
First train [and wagons] leaving the line north of Orlando For Perry [Okla. Terr.], Sept. 16, 1893.
Wild West Hotel, Calamity Av., Perry, 0. T., Sept. 93
Hells Half--Acre, Perry, 0.(kla). T(err)., 93.
W. H. McCoy's claim, Perry, Okla. Terr., October 1, 1893.
First Blacksmith Shop in Guthrie. ca. 1889
Anadarko Townsite, Okla. Terr., August 8, 1901. Tent city in the cornfield.
Anadarko Townsite [Okla. Terr.] Aug. 6, [1901]--a cornfield.
Holding Down A Lot In Guthrie. By C. P. Rich, ca. 1889.
Boomers Camp. Arkansas Cty., Kan. Waiting For the Strip To Open Mar. 1st, 1893.
Anadarko Townsite, August 8, 1901. Auction in progress in lumber company booth. Temporary bank buildings and the beginnings of a lodging house nearby.
Claims bought and sold. U.S. Land Office practice--contests a specialty.
Attorneys and surveyors in front of office, west of Court House Square, Round Pond, Okla. Terr. By Kennett, January 1894

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