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Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears took place in 1838 and was a very devastating time for the Cherokee people. Andrew Jackson forced all indians to give up their land East of the Mississippi River and head West. The majority of them settled in Oklahoma after their long trip of exhaustion, hunger, and disease. About one fourth of them died on the journey, -
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Jim Thorpe
Jim Thorpe was a very famous athlete who was named the "Greatest Athlete" from the first 50 years of the 20th century. He played on numerous football teams and also coached some. He ended his career at the age of 41 and worked some odd jobs. In 1951 he had a film made about himself that he was not in, but he was an actor in many other films. -
Facts
The capitol of Oklahoma is Oklahoma city and the nickname is The Sooner State. A sooner is what they called someone who left before the cannon, or gun shot, in any kind of race. The quarter features the state bird, a Scissortail Flycatcher, flying over the state flower, the Indian Blanket backed by some similar looking flowers. The quarter also has the inscriptions "Oklahoma" and "1907" -
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Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was basically just a series of dust storms that lasted for about eight years. The cause of these storms was from a drought that was going on as well as poor farming techniques. About 100 million acres were affected by this including large parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico. People proposed many ideas to solve this partially natural partially man made disaster. -
Dust Bowl Continued
Some believed the old folk lore of killing snakes and laying them belly up on fences. Others tried shock and awe. One group of farmers paid $500 to a self professed "rain maker", only for him to set off rockets that were filled with and explosive mixture of dynamite and nitroglycerine to "induce showers". After the drought ended the government came in and taught farmers how to properly farm their land. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
On April 19, 1995 Timothy McVeigh set off a truck bomb right outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. The explosion killed 168 people and was named the worst terrorist attack to take place on American soil until 9/11.
