![[In 1889] the last big tract of Indian land was declared open for settlement, in Oklahoma. The claimants and the speculators mounted their horses and lined up like trotters waiting for a starting gun. The itchy ones jumped the gun and were ever after known as Sooners-and Oklahoma was thereafter called the Sooner State.](/assets/img/quote-photos/in-1889-the-last-big-tract-of-indian-land-was-declared-open-for-settlement-in.jpg)
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