boomers



Boomers- settlers who ran in land races to claim land upon the 1899 opening of the Indian Teritory for settlement. They waited at high noon to hear the canon unlike the sooners who snuck out before the boomers.

Infomation: //America Pathways to the Present// Page 267 http://www.cityoftulsa.org/OurCity/budget/documents/Sec03a-DepartmentalBudgetHighlights-PublicSafetyAndProtection.pdf

Picture: http://www.nassaucountyny.gov/agencies/Parks/NewsRelease/2006/images/OklahomaLandRush.jpg