Charles C. Carpenter |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Occupation(s) | Jayhawker, Union officer in the American Civil War, Oklahoma Boomer |
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Charles C. Carpenter (fl. 19th century) was a Boomer leader who organized and instigated the first unauthorized attempt to homestead the Unassigned Lands in Oklahoma Territory in May 1879.[1][2][3][4][5]
- ^ Stan Hoig. 2000. Fort Reno and the Indian Territory Frontier. Fayetteville, Ark.: University of Arkansas Press, p. 82.
- ^ Carl Coke Rister. 1942. Land Hunger, David L. Payne and the Oklahoma Boomers, Norman, Okla.: University of Oklahoma Press, pp. 41, 45-50.
- ^ Stan Hoig. 1984. The Oklahoma Land Rush of 1889, Oklahoma City: Oklahoma Historical Society, p. 4.
- ^ Edward Everett Dale and Gene Aldrich. 1969. History of Oklahoma, Thompson Book and Supply Co., Edmond, Okla., 1969, first printing 1948 by Prentice Hall, Inc., New York, N.Y., pp. 231-234, 236.
- ^ Stan Hoig: "CARPENTER, CHARLES C. (dates unknown)", in Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture, Oklahoma Historical Society, http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/C/CA060.html, n.d., accessed 8 Jul 2012.