Scourge of the Oklahoma Sooners
<p>He documented the historic moment in a travel diary, later hastily adding in pencil, “Carts, buggies, light wagons. Everything at break neck speed.”</p>
<p>Osburn was one of an estimated 50,000 people who joined the epic race that day in hopes of staking a 160-acre claim. President Benjamin Harrison signed a proclamation a month earlier on March 23 that opened two million acres of the Oklahoma Country — officially titled the Unassigned Lands — to non-Indian settlement. Homesteaders generally considered the designated acreage among the richest unoccupied sections of public land in the United States, and it was therefore carved from Indian Territory.</p>
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