The race involved approximately 20,000 homesteaders, who gathered to stake their claims on 6,097 plots, of 160 acres (0.65 km2) each, of former reservation land.
These land runs also expanded Payne, Logan, Oklahoma, and Cleveland counties.
[1] The Indian reservation land was broken up through allotment following a proclamation by President Benjamin Harrison.
[3] Before noon on September 22, 1891, a large number ("thousands") of would-be settlers lined up at various starting points along the western border of the Creek Nation.
Lands within the boundaries of the two new county seats (Chandler and Tecumseh, respectively) were excluded from this run, allegedly because the towns had not been platted.