Born grown: An Oklahoma City history
by Roy P. Stewart
Category: Oklahoma City (Okla.)

No community in the world had an origin comparable to that of Oklahoma City. There will never be a similiar story. Conditions under which it was born no longer exist. From noon to nightfall on April 22, 1889, when the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma Country were opened, people by the thousands poured into Oklahoma Station on the Sante Fe railroad.