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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 .
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.
Flag of Oklahoma. The history of Oklahoma refers to the history of the state of Oklahoma and the land that the state now occupies. Areas of Oklahoma east of its panhandle were acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, while the Panhandle was not acquired until the U.S. land acquisitions following the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).
Unlike the rest of the nation, most of Texas is on its own alternating current power grid, the Texas Interconnection. Texas has a deregulated electric service. Texas leads the nation in total net electricity production, generating 437,236 MWh in 2014, 89% more MWh than Florida, which ranked second. [286] [287]
In 1910, two young boys from Oklahoma rode their horses to New York City. It was the adventurous duo's second trip alone across wilderness. Two Oklahoma boys shocked the nation with their ...
A wealthy Texas businessman — with few connections to Oklahoma ― is one of four Republicans trying to unseat incumbent 4th District Congressman Tom Cole. The GOP primary election is set for ...
Two military engagements were fought at the Cabin Creek Battlefield in the Cherokee Nation within Indian Territory. [c] The location was where the Texas Road [d] [16] crossed Cabin Creek, near the present-day town of Big Cabin, Oklahoma. Both the First and Second Battles of Cabin Creek were launched by the Confederate Army to disrupt Union Army ...
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