6/21/2023 0 Comments Citizens Band by Jerrold MundisIn that first run in 1889, when the pictures on these pages were taken, the settlers came by train, horseback, wagon, or on foot, and they did not come at a leisurely pace, looking carefully for likely pieces of property. As various segments of the Oklahoma Territory were made available for white settlement by “runs”-of which, between 18, there were five-the lands were fully occupied in a matter of hours, with every trade and profession represented, and more people than could be used effectively. Many of them, moreover, rushed to areas where cities were likely to develop, hoping that the claims they staked out would fall on a choice corner of a still-unplatted town in order to run their lines for lots and streets, surveyors had to elbow their way through mobs of squatters. Its settlers did not arrive singly, or in small groups, but in masses of thousands, all at once. Among the fifty states, no other had a beginning like Oklahoma’s.
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