With the Land Run of 1889, Oklahoma Territory was officially open for settlement. (Allen Wright, a missionary and later chief of the Choctaw Nation, suggested the name "Oklahoma" in 1866. In the ...
U.S. Rep. Ernest Istook, R-Okla., inspects a massive sculpture commemorating the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. The statue — in Oklahoma City's Bricktown district — was dedicated Monday.