Oklahoma Land Run
US #1092 was issued in conjunction with Oklahoma’s Semi-Centennial Exposition, which ran from April 22 to November 16, 1957.
On April 22, 1889, the first land rush into the Unassigned Lands of Oklahoma kicked off at high noon.
After a great deal of pressure from “boomers,” whites who wanted Indian land opened for settlement, the government changed its policy. On March 2, 1889, President Grover Cleveland signed the 1889 Indian Appropriations Act, buying three million acres of land in Oklahoma from the Creek and Seminole tribes.
