When he was five the family moved to Oklahoma Territory and settled in a farming community near Hennessey.
Under his watch as Secretary of the Interior, the Cherokee Commission negotiated eleven agreements that removed nineteen indigenous tribes to small allotments in the Oklahoma Territory, while opening the land to homesteaders.
It contains a remarkable collection of antique gear, dating back to the mid-18th century, and also holds the first fire station in Oklahoma Territory, built in 1864.
In about 1889, the Campbell family relocated from Kansas to the Oklahoma Territory.
Oklahoma | Oklahoma City | Northern Territory | Tulsa, Oklahoma | University of Oklahoma | Australian Capital Territory | Indian Territory | Oklahoma! | Norman, Oklahoma | New Mexico Territory | Utah Territory | Governor of Oklahoma | Arizona Territory | Oklahoma City bombing | Palmerston, Northern Territory | Northwest Territory | Washington Territory | Katherine, Northern Territory | Muskogee, Oklahoma | Dakota Territory | Ada, Oklahoma | Territory of Hawaii | Oklahoma Sooners football | Oklahoma House of Representatives | Oklahoma City Thunder | Nebraska Territory | Kwantung Leased Territory | Colorado Territory | Wisconsin Territory | territory |
In 1896, Callahan was nominated for Congressional delegate from Oklahoma Territory, and was elected by a plurality of less than fifteen hundred, running on the Free Silver ticket to the 55th United States Congress.
Tulsa appeared to be off to a good start, intercepting Landry Jones on the first play of the game and taking 25 of their first 27 snaps in Oklahoma territory, but two costly red-zone turnovers and a missed 50-yard field goal kept them scoreless in the first half while the Sooners built an insurmountable 31-0 lead.
The town had an economic boom from the outset because Indian Territory was legally "dry," bot Oklahoma Territory was not.
In 1890, a barbed-wire fence was built along the street now called Broadway from the North Canadian River to the Canadian River to keep the Native Americans out of Oklahoma Territory.