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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

"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
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