[MAPS -- OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH]. Oklahoma And The Cherokee Strip Reached Via The Missouri Pacific Railway And Iron Mountain Route “The Canaan Of The Home-Seeker.” St. Louis, MO: Woodward & Tiernan Printing Co., 1889.  

Color map, 20 3/4 x 14 1/2 in. from neat line to neat line, within printed pamphlet, approx. 3 3/4 x 8 1/4 in. when folded, containing 14pp of text under headings including "Public Land Laws," "The Cherokee Strip," "How to Reach the Promised Land and Where to Outfit," and "How to Locate Your Land." Areas of the map shaded in red indicate "Lands designated in the Peel Bill and to be opened for settlement by the President's Proclamation." Yellow shaded areas indicate "Oklahoma Territory Lands, now open for settlement." Pink shaded areas indicate Indian Territory, "Lands not opened for settlement." Copyrighted by H.C. Townsend, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Missouri Pacific Railway Company.

The 1889 Indian Appropriations Act officially opened the Unassigned Lands of Indian Territory to non-native settlers under tenets of the Homestead Act, culminating in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889. This rare early promotional map of the Oklahoma Territory including the Cherokee Strip and contiguous regions, shows the routes to the Territory serviced by the Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Routes, and discusses at length public land laws, how to stake a claim, and the virtues of the Cherokee Strip.
The Land Run of 1893, also known as the Cherokee Outlet Opening or the Cherokee Strip Land Run, marked the opening to settlement of the Cherokee Outlet in the Oklahoma Territory's fourth and largest land run.