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Located near modern-day Ponca City, it was founded by Colonel George Washington Miller, a veteran of the Confederate Army, in 1893. [4] The 101 Ranch was the birthplace of the 101 Ranch Wild West Show and one of the early focal points of the oil rush in northeastern Oklahoma. It was the largest diversified farm and ranch in America at the time. [4]
The Land Run of 1889, the first land run in the territory's history, opened Oklahoma Territory to settlement on April 22, 1889. Over 50,000 people entered the lands on the first day, among them thousands of freedmen and descendants of slaves. Couch and his Boomers, now numbering approximately 14,000, also entered the race.
The bear family includes the most massive extant terrestrial members of the order Carnivora. [a] The polar bear is considered to be the largest extant species, [42] with adult males weighing 350–700 kg (770–1,540 lb) and measuring 2.4–3 m (7 ft 10 in – 9 ft 10 in) in total length. [43]
Woolaroc is a museum and wildlife preserve located in the Osage Hills of Northeastern Oklahoma on Oklahoma State Highway 123 about 12 mi (19 km) southwest of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and 45 mi (72 km) north of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Woolaroc was established in 1925 as the ranch retreat of oilman Frank Phillips.
The first oil business was founded in 1872 by Robert M. Darden but ultimately failed due to the federal officials not recognized non-native leases. Although oil was encountered in the 1850s, near Salina, Oklahoma's first commercial oil well was drilled near Bartlesville in 1896. It got so successful that it had to be sealed as it was flooding ...
Oklahoma (/ ˌ oʊ k l ə ˈ h oʊ m ə / ⓘ OHK-lə-HOH-mə; [7] Choctaw: Oklahumma, pronounced) [8] is a landlocked state in the South Central region of the United States. [9] It borders Texas to the south and west, Kansas to the north, Missouri to the northeast, Arkansas to the east, New Mexico to the west, and Colorado to the northwest.
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First European settlement in the New World during the Age of Discovery. Abandoned by 1500. 1494 Concepción de la Vega: La Vega: Dominican Republic Founded by Christopher Columbus in 1494 as a gold town, and abandoned by 1562 after an earthquake destroyed the settlement. 1496 Santo Domingo: Distrito Nacional: Dominican Republic