On April 22, 1889, 50,000 land-hungry settlers rushed onto two million acres of Central Oklahoma’s Unassigned Lands. The land rush was the first of seven held in Oklahoma, with veterans of the first run known as “89ers” or “Boomers” and the settlers who went early as “Sooners.”
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