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The Oklahoma panhandle (formerly called No Man's Land, the Public Land Strip, the Neutral Strip, or Cimarron Territory) is a salient in the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma. Its constituent counties are, from west to east, Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County. As with other salients in the United States, its ...
"No Man's Land" was the 170-mile strip of land, a "neutral strip", that was left with no state or territorial ownership from 1850 until 1890. [4] [5] The town started as a cluster of white tents, which gave it its original name, White City. [2] Kansans moved to the area in Oklahoma to start White City due to strict alcohol prohibition laws in ...
The No Man's Land Museum was established in 1932 as a project of the science department at Panhandle Agricultural and Mechanical College. In 1933, the No Man's Land Historical Society was established and took control of the museum. [6]
The 1890 Oklahoma Organic Act organized the western half of Indian Territory and a strip of country north of Texas known as No Man's Land (now the Oklahoma Panhandle) into Oklahoma Territory. Native American reservations in the new territory were then opened to settlement in a series of land runs in 1890, 1891, and 1893.
This is a photo of pasture land in the Oklahoma Panhandle where the bodies of two Kansas women were found buried April 14. The photo was included in search warrant records filed with the Texas ...
The Anchor D Ranch in Guymon, Oklahoma was one of the largest cattle ranches in the No Man's Land section of the Oklahoma/Texas Panhandle area. It was created around 1878 by Ezra Dudley, an investor from Newton, Massachusetts and his son, John. The ranch was headquartered on the Beaver River, in what is now Texas County, Oklahoma. After buying ...
After our brief pit stop, we hit the road again, coasting along the flat, low plains of the Oklahoma panhandle before landing in the small town of Guymon. Here, we found a small but mighty outpost ...
The area was known as "No Man's Land" because it belonged to no state or territorial government. [4] From 1886 to 1890, it was a separate organized territory known as Cimarron Territory. [5] After becoming part of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890, Beaver County (first called Seventh County) covered the entire Oklahoma Panhandle. [5]