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The Land Rush
The first Land Rush happen on April 22, 1889, over 500,000 people lined up, getting ready to race to claim unclaimed land for free in Oklahoma. If you were a sooner back then, you probably would be dead. A sooner is a person or a group who would leave to early to claim land from the Land Rush in 1889 in Oklahoma. You would usually get caught and shot right when someone sees you. -
The Statehood and Other Facts
Oklahoma became a state on November 16, 1907. It capital is Oklahoma City with a population of 610,613. The quarter features the state bird, Scissortail Flycatcher, and the bird is flying over the state's wild flower, the indian blanket. A well known nickname that was given to Oklahoma was the panhandle state because of its narrow piece of land that looks like it should be apart of Texas, it used to be unclaimed so people called it no man's land back then. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl occurred in the 1930s, it was a terrible time to be living in Colorado, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, and Oklahoma because of the Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl was severe dust storms that gradually damaged the ecology. The cause of this was because of severe drought and bad farming choices. But after almost a decade the weather changed, farmers got their jobs back, but lots of people fled to California while the Dust bowl was happening.