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seanmcdirmid
on Nov 5, 2013
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They bought them from landowners, sometimes through nefarious means if you remember your early 20th century literature.
talmand
on Nov 5, 2013
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By nefarious means, do you mean illegal? Was it government policy to intervene in those illegal acts or to let it happen?
seanmcdirmid
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No, just for the most part greedy people. Sometimes greedy people were able to bribe greedy officials to bend laws, especially in relation to oil in Oklahoma on American Indian reservations, who we initially stole our land from anyways.
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