{"id":4256,"date":"2026-04-22T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4256"},"modified":"2025-12-12T10:35:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T15:35:56","slug":"oklahoma-land-rush-1889","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4256","title":{"rendered":"Oklahoma Land Rush &#8211; 1889"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 321px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/dc\/Oklahoma_Land_Rush.jpg\" alt=\"File:Oklahoma Land Rush.jpg\" width=\"311\" height=\"168\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oklahoma Land Rush<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Oklahoma Land Rush began at twelve noon 1889<\/strong> when the government opened 1,900,000 acres of land bought from the Creek and Seminole Indians. People raced to obtain the best plots of land. By evening 50,000 people had established home sites in the region. Children could learn more at an <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">excellent primary resource:<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.historycolorado.org\/sites\/default\/files\/media\/document\/2018\/Oklahoma_Land_Rush.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Land Rush<\/a>. They could also research the differences between a &#8220;sooner&#8221; and a &#8220;boomer.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma Land Rush began at twelve noon 1889 when the government opened 1,900,000 acres of land bought from the Creek and Seminole Indians. People raced to obtain the best plots of land. By evening 50,000 people had established home sites in the region. Children could learn more at an excellent primary resource:\u00a0Land Rush. They could <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=4256' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4888,5490,2663,1623,2662,2664],"class_list":["post-4256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4888","tag-april-22","tag-creek","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-land-rush","tag-seminole-indians","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4256"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27433,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4256\/revisions\/27433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}