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Most American states took decades of slow, grueling migration to settle, pushing borders westward mile by agonizing mile. But Oklahoma? It took a single afternoon. On a spring day in 1889, tens of thousands of desperate pioneers lined up at a heavily guarded border, waiting for a signal. When the cannon fired, it triggered the most chaotic real estate grab in human history. So how did a single gunshot create an entire US state?
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Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
0:29 - The Land Before the Rush
4:52 - Sponsored By Cometeer
6:53 - The Creation of Indian Territory
11:29 - The Race to Create a State
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