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Above, Oklahoma City in 1889, four weeks after the OklahomaTerritory was opened up for settlement. Settlers staked their claim,put up tents, and then swiftly began erecting board shacks andhouses — a pattern repeated throughout the West.Left, a vessel at the Gatun locks of the Panama Canal. The UnitedStates acquired the rights to build the canal in 1903 in a treaty withPanama, which had just rebelled and broken away from Colombia.Under the terms of the 1977 treaty, the canal reverted toPanamanian control on December 31, 1999.101