BOKCHITO, Okla. (KTEN) — Horse-drawn wagons rolled through the streets of Bokchito on Thursday to commemorate the Land Rush of 1889. That's the year settlers dashed across Oklahoma Territory to claim ...
Final land run numbers came to near 100,000, according to several reports, and birthed the towns of Enid, Ponca City, Perry and Alva, among others. April 22, 1889. The one that started them all.
U.S. Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., inspects a massive sculpture commemorating the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. The statue — in Oklahoma City's Bricktown district — was dedicated Monday.
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