After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the Land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up "within a fortnight," the city\'s residents adopted the slogan "born grown" to describe their new home.
Hightower\'s revealing look at a moment in history that, in all its turmoil and complexity, transce.
The real story, steeped in the politics of the Gilded Age, unfolds in 1889 , Michael J.
But the territory\'s creation was never so simple or straightforward.
After immigrants flooded into central Oklahoma during the Land rush of 1889 and the future capital of Oklahoma City sprang up "within a fortnight," the city\'s residents adopted the slogan "born grown" to describe their new home