American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century

by Richard Lowitt

To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in equal measure. Comprising land that Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico did not want, and that Texas, after entering the Union as a slave state, could not have, the Oklahoma Panhandle was dubbed "No Man's Land." This geographical anomaly, 165 miles long and only 35 miles wide, belonged to no one and, before...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896725588
• ISBN13: 9780896725584
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 8.3"