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When they opened the Cherokee Strip
to white settlers.
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September 16, 1893.
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This is where it happened?
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The Hennessy Line ran along
right over there.
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People lined up as far as you could see.
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Thousands and thousands of people.
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Men, women, kids. All ages. All kinds.
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On horses and mules,
in wagons, buckboards, surreys...
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Some of them on foot. Lots of them.
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Where were you?
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See that hump in that ridge over yonder?
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That's where I was, near about.
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I was 18 then...
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set in the saddle of an old mule,
an old saddle.
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I rode that old mule
all the way from Tennessee.
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I got him here three days before the Run,
so I could rest him up.
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It was the greatest horse race
in the history of the world, boy...
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and for the greatest prize...
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the Cherokee Strip.
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Did you get some of it?
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Yeah, I got mine. I lost it later.
But, hell, that don't matter.
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It wasn't just the land,
the dirt itself that I was racing for.
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It was the Promised Land.
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That's what you got to understand.
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That's what I try to make
people understand. It wasn't just the land.
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It was the dream.