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The FReeper Foxhole Remembers The Oklahoma Land Rush (4/22/1889) - Feb. 24th, 2005
Wild West Magazine | February 1999 | Robert Barr Smith

Posted on 02/23/2005 9:41:17 PM PST by SAMWolf

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To: alfa6

FW-190 Long Nose

61 posted on 02/24/2005 3:51:49 PM PST by SAMWolf (I came. I saw. I stole your tagline.)
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To: Professional Engineer

Afternoon PE. LOL!


62 posted on 02/24/2005 3:53:19 PM PST by SAMWolf (I came. I saw. I stole your tagline.)
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To: SAMWolf
The Fairy Tales we grew up with are dead

Geez this is scary. I hadn't really thought about it but are those old stories even told nowadays without any political correctness added?

63 posted on 02/24/2005 3:58:08 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: Wneighbor

Howdy!


64 posted on 02/24/2005 7:08:35 PM PST by msdrby (Freedom, by its nature, must be chosen and defended by its citizens.)
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To: snippy_about_it; SAMWolf; Iris7
Evening Grace Folks~

Just a quick hello . . . long day. God bless.

A bronze statue along the canal in Oklahoma City depicting the Oklahoma Land Rush.

65 posted on 02/24/2005 8:36:09 PM PST by w_over_w (If I eat a whole plate of pasta and anti-pasta, will I still be hungry?)
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To: SAMWolf

Thank so much for setting me straight. I feel so ashamed of amerika and am very sorry for all the evil wicked things we've done to the peaceloving environmentally conscience disability aware gender neutral peoples of the world. Oh if only George Bush and his cabal of evil neo-cons would just come to the realization that we all need to learn to live in harmony and oneness walking lightly on our mother the earth.




Damn! I think I'm ready to teach in college!


66 posted on 02/24/2005 8:38:09 PM PST by Valin (DARE to be average!)
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To: SAMWolf; snippy_about_it
Ironically, a Cherokee lawyer and Confederate veteran, Colonel E.C. Boudinot, was one of the first to urge opening of the two million acres of prime land left unassigned by the 1866 treaties.


EC Boudinot

OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH

The following letter was written by Newton Franklin Locke (born January 13, 1853 in Dallas Co., Alabama; died April 26, 1939 in Miami, Roberts Co., Texas) November 5, 1893, in Mobeetie, Texas to his brother Thomas Jackson Locke (born March 14, 1862 in Orrville, Alabama; died July 2, 1934 in Orrville, Alabama) in Alabama.

Dear Tom,

Your letter of Oct. 13th to hand. I was pleased to hear of all being well. Your letter found us all well, both my family and Matt's. I arrived at home on the 29th from my trip to the Cherokee Strip. I will give you a small sketch of my trip. towit!

Myself and four others left Mobeetie on Sept. 1st and carrying with us 17 head of horses, a mess wagon and 4 mules, plenty beding and provision and a little Hydrophoba Medicine. We traveled for eight days, going through some very pretty country. Passed several Indian reservations, saw them in their natural state in their tepees and villages. Camped among them and they treated us very kindly. And after having a pleasant journey of eight days arrived at Hennesey, our destination. We there week in camp about 4 miles from town and commence preparing our horses for the race on the 18th and while in camp we had a pleasant time. Though the town was so crowded and dusty we visited it only for provision and mail. When the 18th arrived we had our 5 race horses in fine fix, went out to the line and took our places about one hour before starting with twenty thousand people. The line at our point was 14 miles long and at 12 o'clock when the signal sounded, the ground start was made, I looked down the line for an instant and it appeared like a huge serpent moving. it was the most people I ever saw together. The crowd was composed of all nationalities. All classes of men from the gray haired Grand father to the boy of 12 years, dudes, school mamas, bicyclists, and the train with 33 cars and 3 engines was all in the start. You can amagine how I felt mounted on a Texas horse my chances were certainly very few. However myself and comrades rode on together at our usual Texas gate for about 7 mile until we got our horse well heated and covered with foam and as fast as we could. Not to hurt our horses. We then began to get faster, faster, and faster and ere long were passing the multitude very rapidly. Still we rode on recklessly. Finally we came in sight of the US Land Office at the town site of Enid, our destination. We arrived in among say 30 people the first to get there. We had made a fine race and were proud of it. We had beat every thing there ex- Western horses. Kentucky and Missouri race horses not excepted. We made the 18 mile heat in 48 minutes. Not a bad saddle horse time and that too without hurting any of our five horses. I was No. 1 to file in the land office. It was an exciting trip and I enjoyed it very much. I went over the route next day to get our wagon and other horses and could trace the route by dead horses broken buggies and wagons. Some of the prettiest horses I ever saw lay dead. Naturally run to death by not knowing how to ride them. Several people killed and several badly mashed up.

On the evening of the 18th the town of Enid looked like and was a city of tents for every lot was taken and something on it. We all sold our property and prepared to return to our homes for we did not like the country nor the people. Yet Enid will make a city sure. Of all the ground rascals on earth the Strip certainly has a large share. However we all got out safe without any serious difficulty.

Have arrived at home and are satisfied I will have to stop or you will think I am trying my hand on a novel. Mr. Long and myself have formed a copartnership and are doing well. Selling lots of goods. I have closed my cattle all out and am renting my farm so that I can rest easy, make a living and educate my boys. Matt is still best man at Dickerson's, doing very well. Give my love to Mother. Tell her I will write her soon. Tell Bill the big fat rascal to write sometime, love to Aunt. Write soon and tell me all the news.

As ever your brother,

Newt

~~~

The extant land rush is conducted largely in Spanish.

I kept a log of the vehicle descriptions and license plates of the colonias two doors down. Many pages of notebooks.

A long and ever-changing line of cars with out-of-state plates, Mexican plates, pieces of paper taped in the window saying we don't need no stinking plate.

Then the local television news affiliates announced the completion of a joint drug task force investigation arresting two hombres in an apartment visible from here, a wily one who had overseen an extensive network of mules, but escaped back to Mexico ahead of the federales.

Shazam the line of cars disappeared from two doors down.

In the city more Chihuaha plates, its city council vowing no cooperation with immigration authorities, followed by the Albuquerque city council and the New Mexico state legislature.

Canada's Martin announces that he and Peter Jennings will not cooperate with U.S. antiballistic missile defense efforts.

NAFTA has been the shafta.

~~~


Senator Jim Inhofe (R-OK)
Nobody's fool vis a vis national security

Senator Inhofe operates Stryker during Afghanistan land rush

67 posted on 02/24/2005 9:09:32 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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Thanks for the Newton Franklin Locke letter. They conquered, they sold. Perhaps it was good business sense.

I kept a log of the vehicle descriptions and license plates of the colonias two doors down. Many pages of notebooks.

A long and ever-changing line of cars with out-of-state plates, Mexican plates, pieces of paper taped in the window saying we don't need no stinking plate.

I couldn't do it. I'd have to fight or move.

68 posted on 02/24/2005 9:38:50 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: w_over_w

Long day...I know all about those. Goodnight w.


69 posted on 02/24/2005 9:48:28 PM PST by snippy_about_it (Fall in --> The FReeper Foxhole. America's History. America's Soul.)
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To: w_over_w

Morning w_over_w.


70 posted on 02/25/2005 5:55:21 AM PST by SAMWolf (I came. I saw. I stole your tagline.)
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To: Valin
Damn! I think I'm ready to teach in college!

Just about, you need to mention "Haliburton" by name at least 3 times in each soul searching rant.

71 posted on 02/25/2005 5:57:06 AM PST by SAMWolf (I came. I saw. I stole your tagline.)
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To: PhilDragoo
Morning Phil Dragoo.

In the city more Chihuaha plates, its city council vowing no cooperation with immigration authorities, followed by the Albuquerque city council and the New Mexico state legislature.

Portland and Oregon are the saame way. Not only won't they cooperate on illegal immigration they refuse to cooperate with the Justice Department onn the War on Terror.

NAFTA has been the shafta.

What!?!?! Just because jobs for illegals and immigrants have grown as much as jobs for citizens?!?!?! Besides they're just doing the jobs that people who now collect welfare checks used to do. < /sarcasm>

72 posted on 02/25/2005 6:04:55 AM PST by SAMWolf (I came. I saw. I stole your tagline.)
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To: SAMWolf

Thanks "Haliburton" for "Haliburton" the "Haliburton" imput "Haliburton"


73 posted on 02/25/2005 6:28:49 AM PST by Valin (DARE to be average!)
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