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bill authorized homestead settlement on the nearly two
million acres in the center of the "old" Indian Territory.
(See appendix of this paper for the illustrative plates
from Buck, "The Settlement of Oklahoma," noting especially
section 16, Plate XII.) Any male citizen or man who had
declared his intention of becoming a naturalized citizen
or any unmarried woman over twenty-one or any married woman
separated from her husband could "make homestead entry."
In addition to the provisions of the Homestead Act, settlers
were required to pay a fee on receipt of their patent.
President Harrison proclaimed the land open to settlement
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as of noon, April 22, 1889. Restrictions barring unlicensed
whites in Indian Territory were lifted for three days to
allow homesteaders to mass on the borders of the lands to
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be opened. The Santa Fe railroad with the north-south
line offered access to the center of the area to be claimed.
On both boundaries, trains, jammed literally to the roof and
with passengers clinging to the roof tops, stood ready with
steam up to start on the bugle blast opening the "run." For
the 50,000 homesteaders-to-be, young and old, men and women,
•^U.S. Statutes at Large, XXV, 412, Sections 13, 14,
15; Debo, Footloose, p. 27; Dale and Wardell, History, p.
246-247; Gibson, Guide, p. 22; Scott, The Story, p. 11;
See "Land Decisions" column Daily Oklahoman, May 5, 1894 for
example of women homesteaders.
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