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Agriculture in the Oklahoma Panhandle 1898-1942

Description: Article describes the history of agricultural activity in the Oklahoma Panhandle and some of the people groups that settled there. W David Baird includes details about historic buildings that contributed to agricultural development, such as granaries, barns, and ranches.
Date: Summer 1994
Creator: Baird, W. David
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Prehistory in Oklahoma

Description: Article examines human communities in prehistoric Oklahoma through investigation of evidence found in archaeological sites. A. M. Gibson discusses how these findings illustrate the way of life early hunters followed, and the growth and development of this way of life.
Date: Spring 1965
Creator: Gibson, Arrell M.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

From Petroleum to Pigs: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Last Half of the Twentieth Century

Description: Article discusses the history of the Oklahoma Panhandle, focusing on its return to prosperity beginning in the wake of World War II. Despite the earlier difficulties of the 1930s, the panhandle made inroads in the agriculture and ranching industry, oil and gas, and pork production.
Date: Autumn 2002
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Cimarron Territory: Comedy and Tragedy

Description: Article explores the history of the Cimarron Territory, a title for the Public Land Strip of the Oklahoma Panhandle where lawlessness was common, and the members of its unofficial government. Joy Schnabel discusses the motivations of these pioneers and the population they sought to entice to the area.
Date: Spring 1995
Creator: Schnabel, Joy
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"If It Rains": Life in the Oklahoma Panhandle in the 1930s and 1940s

Description: Article centers around the difficulties the Oklahoma Panhandle residents faced in the 1930s and the practices they developed to cope with them. Richard Lowitt focuses on developments in land use when the people living in the Southern Great Plains suffered depression, drought, and dust storms in a previously prosperous area.
Date: Spring 2002
Creator: Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"A Slumbering Band of Heroes:" Hunting in the Panhandle

Description: Article explores the lives of frontier hunters in the Oklahoma Panhandle through historical context and the inclusion of personal narratives printed in newspapers of the time. C. Robert Haywood explores the romantic notions that motivated the hunters and how hunting was perceived in media.
Date: Autumn 1990
Creator: Haywood, C. Robert
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

"Dust to Eat" A Document from the Dust Bowl

Description: Article describes the difficulties farmers faced during the Dust Bowl era in their daily lives through the personal narrative of Caroline A. Henderson. Virginia C. Purdy edited the piece and provides an introduction for historical context.
Date: Winter 1980
Creator: Purdy, Virgina C. & Henderson, Caroline Agnes
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

We Came to Live in Oklahoma Territory

Description: Article provides a personal narrative of Fannie L. Eisele, whose family immigrated from Germany and became homesteaders of Oklahoma Territory. Eisele describes her life on the frontier, farming duties, and the growth of towns in the area.
Date: Spring 1960
Creator: Eisele, Fannie L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The Seal of Cimarron Territory

Description: Article discusses the history of Cimarron Territory, also known as "No Man's Land" and the Oklahoma Panhandle, while describing the origin of the seal of Cimarron Territory that is displayed on the cover of this issue of The Chronicles.
Date: Spring 1957
Creator: Wright, Muriel H. (Muriel Hazel), 1889-1975
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

History of No-Man's-Land, or Old Beaver County

Description: Article discusses the history of No Man's Land, or old Beaver County, its initial land system after being claimed by Spain, various contracts over land use, the founding of the Santa Fe Trail, and the area's time as Cimarron Territory. This article is a reprint of the original, which was contained in the first issue of the Chronicles in 1921.
Date: Spring 1957
Creator: Wardell, Morris L.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

The First Panhandle Land Grant

Description: Article describes the history of the first land grant in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Raymond Estep discusses how the Mexican state of Coahuila y Texas issued a large land grant to Stephen Julian Wilson under an empresario contract to settle 200 families there, and how the land changed hands over the years.
Date: Winter 1958
Creator: Estep, Raymond
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Henry C. Hitch and His Times

Description: Article chronicles the history of the Hitch family who settled within the Panhandle area of Oklahoma Territory and nurtured a love for nature and farming throughout the generations.
Date: Spring 1972
Creator: Stewart, Roy P.
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Notes and Documents, Summer 1958

Description: Notes and Documents column including documents about the dedication of a bust of Robert Lee Williams, the OHS annual tour, the history of the Oklahoma Panhandle, the establishment of Boggy Depot State Park, the history of St. John's Mission in Prairie City, the history of Sivler City on the Chisholm Trail, a correction, and Oklahoma historical markers.
Date: Summer 1958
Creator: Oklahoma Historical Society
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Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society
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