The federal government made land formerly occupied by Indians in the Oklahoma Territory ("the Beautiful Land") available to settlers. Hundreds of "sooners" had already entered the territory and had to be evicted repeatedly by federal troops. On April 22, 1889, on the legal opening, 50,000 "boomers" waited on the border. At noon a horde of "eighty-niners" poured in. By the end of the year, Oklahoma had 60,000 inhabitants and it became a territory. In 1907 was admitted as a state.
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