Land Run Day!

It's Oklahoma Heritage month and with that comes the celebration of the Land Run of 1889 which gave legal settlers the opportunity to claim 160 acres of public land in the Oklahoma District. Those who lived and improved the land for five years received the title. Pretty incredible.

Children at the girls' school could dress up a pioneers or cowgirls/cowboys to celebrate Oklahoma's heritage. The state's history is one full of promise, heartache and perseverance. The motto "Oklahoma Strong" goes back generations. 

Gabby is a cowgirl and Adriana is a pioneer. 

I'll leave you with Rodgers and Hammerstein's lyrics from the musical Oklahoma! which is also the state song:

Brand new state! Brand new state, gonna treat you great!
Gonna give you barley, carrots and pertaters,
Pasture fer the cattle, Spinach and Temayters!
Flowers on the prarie where the June bugs zoom,
Plen'y of air and plen'y of room,
Plen'y of room to swing a rope!
Plen'y of heart and plen'y of hope.

Oklahoma, where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain,
And the wavin' wheat can sure smell sweet
When the wind comes right behind the rain.
Oklahoma, ev'ry night my honey lamb and I
Sit alone and talk and watch a hawk makin' lazy circles in the sky.
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say--Yeeow! A-yip-i-o-ee ay!
We're only sayin' You're doin' fine, Oklahoma! Oklahoma--O.K.