OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) - 135 years ago on May 2, the Oklahoma Territory was officially created. The U.S. 23rd President, Benjamin Harrison, appointed George W. Steele of Indiana as the territory’s ...

On this day in 1907, Oklahoma joined the Union when President Theodore Roosevelt signed legislation making it the 46th state. In 1890, the region had been divided into the Indian Territory and the ...

Oklahoma celebrated statehood with a symbolic wedding ceremony between “Miss Indian Territory” and “Mr. Oklahoma Territory” and, in the name of unity, began systematically dismantling ...

Oklahoma; McKinley's Proclamation. ... INDIAN LANDS OPEN JULY 10.; Government Plan of "Drawing" Will Be Followed by Homeseekers in Oklahoma Territory. Share full article. July 8, 1901.

Edward McCabe settled in Oklahoma Territory in 1890, where he founded the all-black town of Langston, helped form its namesake university and launched a newspaper to promote black migration.

Before they headed west, cattle drives went east – into eastern Indian Territory, then to the middle, then west. These were the three cattle trails that crossed what is now Oklahoma in the 1800s ...