At first, it was called Shacktown, where there was one store and some whiskey peddlers. The town was named for John W. McLoud, railroad ... Indian Territory, and watching it become Oklahoma.

When you think of Oklahoma's first land run ... a conditional right-of-way across Indian Territory -- from Kansas to Texas -- to the first railroad company to lay a track to the Kansas border.

The Kanza Indians were forced out by a succession ... of land culminating in 1873 with their removal to Oklahoma, then known simply as Indian territory. Tatonetti and Edwards collaborated on ...