Picture forty-five bronze horsemen and wagons frozen mid-gallop across this stretch of Bricktown. This is an art installation by Paul Moore that commemorates the Land Run of 1889 in the Unassigned Lands. The sculpture was completed in 2019 after more than 20 years of work.
Around you are either 45 or 47 bronze statues, each one-and-a-half times life-size, arranged across a site slightly larger than a football field. The figures—horsemen and wagons racing over the Oklahoma landscape—are frozen in motion, a field of bronze energy that aims to capture the rush of April 22, 1889. A commemorative plaque explains the intent: to "[pay] tribute to the courageous settlers who on April 22, 1889" and to "present day pioneers who, through their untiring dedication to this project, have immortalized a defining moment in [Oklahoma]’s epic creation.
The work earned Paul Moore the National Sculpture Society’s Medal of Honor in October 2020, praised for the "quality of sculpture" and his "extraordinary [talent]. You may also remember that the local Society to Protect Indigenous Rights and Treaties held a sit‑in here on July 11, 2020. Read the plaque's tribute to those courageous settlers, then picture the sit-in that later filled this same ground.