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Highlights
- After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up "within a fortnight," the city's residents adopted the slogan "born grown" to describe their new home.
- Author(s): Michael J Hightower
- 344 Pages
- History, United States
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About the Book
The story of central Oklahoma is profoundly American, showing the region to have been a crucible for melding competing national interests and visions of the future. Boomers, businessmen, cattlemen, soldiers, politicians, pundits, and African and Native Americans squared off--sometimes peacefully, often not--in disagreements over public lands that would resonate in western history long after 1889.Book Synopsis
After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up "within a fortnight," the city's residents adopted the slogan "born grown" to describe their new home. But the territory's creation was never so simple or straightforward. The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889, Michael J. Hightower's revealing look at a moment in history that, in all its turmoil and complexity, transcends the myth. Hightower frames his story within the larger history of Old Oklahoma, beginning in Indian Territory, where displaced tribes and freedmen, wealthy cattlemen, and prospective homesteaders became embroiled in disputes over public land and federal government policies. Against this fraught background, 1889 travels back and forth between Washington, D.C., and the Oklahoma frontier to describe the politics of settlement, public land use, and the first stirrings of urban development. Drawing on eyewitness accounts, Hightower captures the drama of the Boomer incursions and the Run of '89, as well as the nascent urbanization of the townsite that would become Oklahoma City. All of these events played out in a political vacuum until Congress officially created Oklahoma Territory in the Organic Act of May 1890. The story of central Oklahoma is profoundly American, showing the region to have been a crucible for melding competing national interests and visions of the future. Boomers, businessmen, cattlemen, soldiers, politicians, pundits, and African and Native Americans squared off--sometimes peacefully, often not--in disagreements over public lands that would resonate in western history long after 1889.
Review Quotes
"Hightower's analysis of how Oklahoma's foundation story symbolized Gilded Age American politics is enmeshed in a fascinating narrative of frontier settlement life. His outstanding storytelling ability generates an entertaining yet thought- provoking book."--Great Plains Quarterly
"1889 is a much-needed contribution to the history of Oklahoma, the American West, and Gilded Age America. Michael J. Hightower offers the best and most complete coverage of the Boomer movement that I have read."--Sterling Evans, editor of Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West
Dimensions (Overall): 8.8 Inches (H) x 6.3 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Sub-Genre: United States
Genre: History
Number of Pages: 344
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Theme: 19th Century
Format: Paperback
Author: Michael J Hightower
Language: English
Street Date: September 20, 2018
TCIN: 89208418
UPC: 9780806160702
Item Number (DPCI): 247-03-6400
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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