Homesteading in popular culture

1953 film directed by George Stevens

2016 film directed by Antoine Fuqua

1992 film by Ron Howard

1980 American Western film directed by Michael Cimino

Oklahoma! is the first musical written by the duo of Rodgers and Hammerstein. The musical is based on Lynn Riggs's 1931 play, Green Grow the Lilacs. Set in farm country outside the town of Claremore, Indian Territory, in 1906, it tells the story of farm girl Laurey Williams and her courtship by two rival suitors, cowboy Curly McLain and the sinister and frightening farmhand Jud Fry. A secondary romance concerns cowboy Will Parker and his flirtatious fiancée, Ado Annie.

1991 American adventure film directed by Randal Kleiser

1962 film by Gordon Douglas

novel by Willa Cather

1936 film by Ray Taylor

1949 novel by Jack Schaefer