The Cherokee Strip Regional Heritage Center in Enid, OK, is hosting an exhibition about 1893 Oklahoma and their relation to national events such as the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago. “A Broader View: The 1893 Land Run in an Era of American Change” runs from August 13 through November 2, 2024, in the Mabee Foundation Gallery.

Travel back in time through this immersive exhibit that offers a broader perspective surrounding the 1893 Land Run and other events taking place across the country. Beginning with the Treaty of New Echota in 1835, the urge to expand westward culminated in the creation of territorial governments and the opening of land runs, and in 1893, the territory experienced its largest land run amid an economic panic and massive wave of immigration. In the same year, the Columbian Exposition in Chicago saw thousands of visitors witness agricultural, architectural, and technological advantages that helped propel the United States on to the same stage as the rest of world. Industrialization and mass production saw deteriorating work conditions and the rise of labor organizations, resulting in a search for new beginnings out west. Men and women would assume new roles during the creation of homesteads and businesses which promoted political causes.

The cost of this exhibit is included with purchase of regular museum admission.