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  • The fevered race by these bands of eighteenth-century "sooners" for possession of an early "Cherokee Strip" was won by the latter band, who at once took possession and began to clear; so that when the Kirtleys arrived, Martin coolly handed them "a letter from Dr. Walker that informed them that if we got to the valley first, we were to have 21,000 acres of land, and they were not to interfere with us."

    The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 Archibald Henderson 1920

  • How the city of Victory arose overnight on the plains, how people savagely defended their claims against the "sooners;" how good men and bad played politics, makes a strong story of growth and American initiative.

    Captain Scraggs or, The Green-Pea Pirates Gordon [Illustrator] Grant 1918

  • How the city of Victory arose overnight on the plains, how people savagely defended their claims against the "sooners;" how good men and bad played politics, makes a strong story of growth and American initiative.

    Tess of the Storm Country Grace Miller White 1912

  • How the city of Victory arose overnight on the plains, how people savagely defended their claims against the "sooners;" how good men and bad played politics, makes a strong story of growth and American initiative.

    Mistress Anne Temple Bailey 1906

  • How the city of Victory arose overnight on the plains, how people savagely defended their claims against the "sooners;" how good men and bad played politics, makes a strong story of growth and American initiative.

    The Day of the Beast Zane Grey 1905

  • Those settlers who made an illegal head start were called "sooners".

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from Reid Jones wrote 39 weeks 2 hours ago people that take shots after dark during deer season. it's obviously 20 minutes past sundown, which is VERY illegal, and i'm still hearing gun shots every so often. ticks me off how people are stupid like that. another deer hunting one, i hate sooners! if you can't wait to hunt in the legal time, you shouldn't be hunting at all.

    My pet peeve is people that see my decoys and move in right next to me, throw out decoys and start shooting at every duck out of 2009

  • Besides I have seen just normal sooners track and run deer and a deer will always come back.

    What would you do? 2009

  • Besides I have seen just normal sooners track and run deer and a deer will always come back.

    What would you do? 2009

  • Yes | No | Report from Reid Jones wrote 39 weeks 2 hours ago people that take shots after dark during deer season. it's obviously 20 minutes past sundown, which is VERY illegal, and i'm still hearing gun shots every so often. ticks me off how people are stupid like that. another deer hunting one, i hate sooners! if you can't wait to hunt in the legal time, you shouldn't be hunting at all.

    My pet peeve is people that see my decoys and move in right next to me, throw out decoys and start shooting at every duck out of 2009

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