The land runs, which were actual races for land, are part of Oklahoma history. It s how a significant portion of the state was settled.
The first land run was in 1889, settling an area of central Oklahoma called the Unassigned Lands, which was uninhabited and not belonging to any Indian tribe. Click here to see it on a map.
That s the land run in which Oklahoma City was founded, jumping from a population of zero to 10,000 in one day.
In this era of Heritage Haters, the Land Runs are under attack.
As I reported in 2015, above, it is now forbidden to Oklahoma City schoolchildren to reenact the land runs, even though their city was founded by a land run.