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Oklahoma Oklahoma is a state in the south south-central part of the United States. Like Kansas to the north, it is a wheat state, and like Texas to the south, it is also a cattle state. On 22nd April 1889 the Indian Territory (as it was then called) in the southwestern part of the United States was opened up for settlement by whites. Thousands of people lined up early to begin the race into the new land as soon as the word was given. Some Indians had got their early and staked lands illegally. These people were called "Sooners" and when the Indian Territory became Oklahoma, it was called the sooner state. Oklahoma's colourful past has been celebrated in fiction. John Stienbeck's novel Grapes of Wrath (1939) recounted the sad years of the Dust Ball, when the land had suffered terrible draught, and many "Okies" left their stake to seek a better life...

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