[DOC] [TLE] Sooners - Wikipedia [PAR] Sooners is the name given to settlers from the Southern United States who 
entered the Unassigned Lands in what is now the state of Oklahoma before the 
official start of the Land Rush of 1889. President Grover Cleveland officially 
proclaimed the Unassigned Lands open to settlement on March 2, 1889 under 
the Indian ... In 1908, University of Oklahoma football team adopted the nickname
... [DOC] [TLE] Land Rush of 1889 - Wikipedia [PAR] The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889 was the first land rush into the Unassigned 
Lands. The area that was opened to settlement included all or part of the ... These 
people came to be identified as "Sooners." This led to ... Many settlers 
immediately started improving their new land or stood in line waiting to file their 
claim. [DOC] [TLE] Remembering the Oklahoma Land Rush - History in the Headlines [PAR] Apr 22, 2014 ... On the anniversary of the Oklahoma Land Rush, look back at the ... hair as they 
charged ahead to stake their claims to what they hoped ... in previous decades, 
these vast Unassigned Lands had not been ... that the Unassigned Lands 
would be open for settlement beginning precisely at noon on April 22. [DOC] [TLE] The Oklahoma land rush begins - Apr 22, 1889 - HISTORY.com [PAR] Get THIS DAY IN HISTORY every morning in your inbox! .... The nearly two 
million acres of land opened up to white settlement was located ... By nightfall, 
they had staked thousands of claims either on town lots or quarter section farm 
plots. ... Cases involving Soonerspeople who had entered the territory before 
the legal... [DOC] [TLE] Why is Oklahoma nicknamed the Sooner State? - Ask History [PAR] Sep 30, 2016 ... In 1889, people poured into central Oklahoma to stake their claims to nearly 2 
million acres opened for settlement by the U.S. government. T... ... Those who 
entered the region before the land run's designated starting time, ... an energetic, 
can-do spirit, soon was embraced as a nickname for the entire state. [DOC] [TLE] The Big Apple: Origin of Boomer/"Sooner (Oklahoma nickname ... [PAR] Dec 10, 2011 ... ... the land prior to the opening time would be denied the right to claim land. ... 
Those who actually observed the official start of the land run and began the ... 
who endeavoured to get into Government territory in the West before the ... to the 
settlement of the territory now known as Oklahoma before the official... [DOC] [TLE] When the Bugle Sounded: Stampede for Oklahoma's Unassigned ... [PAR] The explosive opening of the Unassigned Lands had been a long time coming. ... 
The long-suffering U.S. Cavalry evicted them as often as they settled, burning 
their ... Nobody who jumped the gun before the 'hour herein before fixed, will ever 
be .... One woman rusher, staking her claim near the railroad, was shot by a... [DOC] [TLE] Sooner | Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture [PAR] Sooner is the name first applied about six months after the Land Run of 1889 to ... 
the land before the time designated in the president's opening proclamation and 
that ... then suddenly appeared to stake a claim after the run started, giving them 
... Oklahomans adopted the nickname as a badge of pride and progressivism. [DOC] [TLE] OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH OF 1889 - Cornell University [PAR] In 1889 the opening to white settlement of a choice portion of Indian Territory in ... 
In that time streets had been laid out, town lots staked off, and steps taken toward 
the ... into furious speed in the race for fertile spots in the beautiful land before 
them. ... I am glad to be able to say that his claim is one of the best in Oklahoma. [DOC] [TLE] Oklahoma, the Natives, and US Settlement  AncestralFindings.com [PAR] In fact, Oklahoma's nickname, the Sooner State, refers to this eagerness of ... 
These early, illegal settlers knew there was good land in Oklahoma from reports 
... however, and attempted to stake claims to the best pieces of land there. ... Act 
of 1889 formally opened the doors to American settlement in Oklahoma. .... Get it 
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Question: Oklahoma got this nickname from those who staked claims before land was open for settlement
Answer: "The Sooner State"