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Land run (sometimes "land rush") usually refers to a historical event in which previously restricted land of the United States was opened to homestead on a first arrival basis. Lands were opened and sold first-come or by bid, or won by lottery, or by means other than a run. The settlers, no matter how they acquired occupancy, purchased the land from the United States Land Office. For former Indian lands, the Land Office distributed the sales funds to the various tribal entities, according to previously negotiated terms. The Oklahoma Land Run of 1889 was the most prominent of the land runs while the Land Run of 1893 was the largest. ==In Oklahoma== After years of raids into the central area of what would become today's the U.S. state of Oklahoma, led by the leaders of the Boomers activist movement such as David L. Payne, Congress finally agreed to open what was dubbed the Unassigned Lands. Seven land runs in all took place in Oklahoma, beginning with the initial and most famous Land Run of April 22, 1889, which gave rise to the terms "Eighty-Niner," or veteran of that run, as well as "Sooner." That area led to today's Canadian, Cleveland, Kingfisher, Logan, Oklahoma, and Payne counties of Oklahoma.〔 The Land Run of September 22, 1891, opened the Iowa, Sac and Fox, Potawatomi, and Shawnee lands to settlement. The land run opened 6,097 plots of each of former reservation land.〔(Oklahoma Land Run Openings 1889-1907 ) (accessed October 6, 2013).〕 On the following day, a land run was held to settle Tecumseh, the pre-designated location of the county seat of County B, later renamed as Pottawatomie County. On September 28, 1891, another land run was held to settle Chandler, the pre-designated location of the county seat of County A, later renamed as Lincoln County. The Land Run of April 19, 1892, opened the Cheyenne and Arapaho lands. The Land Run of September 16, 1893 was known as the Cherokee Strip Land Run. It opened 8,144,682.91 acres (12,726 square miles or about 3.3 million hectares) to settlement. The land was purchased from the Cherokees. It was the largest land run in U.S. history, four times larger than the Land Run of 1889.〔Green, Donald E., "(Settlement Patterns )," ''Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture'', 2009. Accessed March 1, 2015.〕 The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center museum at the eastern edge of Enid, Oklahoma commemorates this event. The final land run in Oklahoma was the Land Run of 1895 to settle the Kickapoo lands. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Land run」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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