A Line in the Sod: Oklahoma Land Runs
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Note: This episode opens with a gunshot sound effect.
On September 16, 1893, a gun was fired at noon, and 100,000 people surged across the Oklahoma plains in the largest land run in American history. Within 2 hours, 6.5 million acres were claimed. Cities appeared overnight. The frontier, they said, was finally settled.
But a young Tonkawa woman was already there, lying flat in the grass at the edge of her family's field, feeling the hoofbeats in her teeth.
In this episode, we follow the process that made the Oklahoma Land Runs possible, the Dawes Act of 1887, the Jerome…
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