Oklahoma, the forty-sixth state admitted to the union, has a history much more interesting and extensive than its relatively recent statehood indicates. Roy Gittinger's classic study begins in 1803, the year of the Louisiana Purchase, which brought the region into the United States and closes in 1906, when Indian Territory was poised to become the state of Oklahoma. The territory became the home of the Five "Civilized" Tribes-Cherokee, Chickasaw, Creek, Choctaw, and Seminole-in the years following the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Through treaties and Indian removals later in the century, lands...
Oklahoma, the forty-sixth state admitted to the union, has a history much more interesting and extensive than its relatively recent statehood indicate...
