How many rushed during the Oklahoma land openings?

Allen, Douglas W.; Leonard, Bryan

doi:10.1007/s11698-019-00193-y

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“…For example, sports such as track are based on the first person to reach a point winning the prize. The land rushes organized in Oklahoma, United States, in the 19th century were also based on competition for the prize of land ownership (Allen & Leonard, 2020). Another example of justification by superiority is the legal principle known as “discovery doctrine,” which grew out of the competition for first exploration during the age of discovery from the 15th–17th centuries and which was used by European colonizers to justify their expropriation of indigenous lands to colonizing nations (Blumm, 2003).…”

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Winning is owning: The role of perceived group superiority on territory ownership attributions.

Yalçın,

Landmann,

Rohmann

2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Two preregistered experiments investigated the role of perceived group superiority in third-party territory ownership attributions (i.e., regarding a group as the possessor of a land) in intergroup contexts. Experiment 1 (N = 288) tested the effect of different versus same-time arrival to a territory on territory ownership attributions. The first-arriver group to a territory was more likely to be perceived as physically powerful, morally strong, and the owner of the territory than a newcomer (in within-subject comparisons) and a sametime arrival group (in between-subject comparisons), whereas a newcomer group was more likely to be perceived as more threatening than first-arriver (in within-subject comparisons) and same-time arrival (in between-subject comparisons) groups. Path analysis partially confirmed the proposed serial mediation model with perceptions of relative power, relative threat, and relative social distance as serial mediators of the association between arriving first at a territory and relative ownership attribution. Experiment 2 (N = 279) tested whether perceived group superiority affects ownership attributions. Physically (high wealth) and morally (high righteousness) superior groups as well as morally inferior groups (low righteousness) were more likely to be perceived as the owner of the territory than the groups who were physically and morally equivalent with other groups in the environment (control group). Implications of the present work for immigration attitudes and intergroup conflicts are discussed. Public Significance StatementDividing groups into first-comers and newcomers of a territory can lead to the perception that these groups are in competition. The increase in the perceived intergroup distance caused by the threat of power differences may increase the perception that first-arriver groups own the territory. Reducing the (perceived) differences between groups' strengths may reduce the exclusionary perception of ownership that fuels conflicts. In particular, the findings of this study suggest that increasing the perceived economic equality and the perceived moral equality between groups may decrease asymmetric territory ownership perceptions.

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Winning is owning: The role of perceived group superiority on territory ownership attributions.

Yalçın,

Landmann,

Rohmann

2024

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology

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Rationing by racing and the Oklahoma land rushes

Allen

Leonard

2019

Journal of Institutional Economics

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Yoram Barzel was always aware that competition is ubiquitous and takes many forms, and he was among the first to analyze settings where individuals compete on the basis of time, rather than price. This paper applies his insights to study the Oklahoma land rushes, where thousands of individuals raced to establish property rights to land. A simple modification of Barzel's analysis generates a model of rationing by racing, and we test its predictions using new data on the timing and location of over 73,000 homestead claims within the five distinct land rushes and one lottery. We find that increases in land quality or decreases in the cost of racing generate corresponding increases in the equilibrium speed, implying that potential rents are dissipated by investments in speed. The analysis highlights the lasting significance of Barzel's insights regarding non-price competition.

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How many rushed during the Oklahoma land openings?

Cited by 12 publications

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Winning is owning: The role of perceived group superiority on territory ownership attributions.

Winning is owning: The role of perceived group superiority on territory ownership attributions.

Rationing by racing and the Oklahoma land rushes

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