Boomers Adrift on Canadian River. [Caption Title]

Oklahoma, 1800. 4 x 7 inch photograph on a 6.5 x 9 inch mat. Chip at top right corner of mat, very good contrast, overall very good. Captioned on negative “Boomers Adrift on Canadian River.”. Very good. Single photograph of a large group of “Boomer” men and women standing on a log jam across the Canadian River in Oklahoma. “Boomers” is a name for settlers in what is now Oklahoma who participated in the “Boomer Movement”: the push for white settlers to enter what were then the “Unassigned Lands” within Indian Territory. The Canadian River formed the southern boundary of the Unassigned Lands. The land was officially opened to settlement by the US Government in 1889 following the passage of the Indian Appropriation Bill – those who entered illegally beforehand were known as “Sooners.”.