American outback : the Oklahoma Panhandle in the twentieth century / Richard Lowitt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lowitt, Richard, 1922-2018.

Series:

Plains histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Oklahoma Panhandle (Okla.)--History--20th century.

Oklahoma Panhandle (Okla.).

Physical Description:

xxi, 137 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lubbock, Tex. : Texas Tech University Press, [2006]

Summary:

"Examines how inhabitants of the Oklahoma Panhandle throughout the 20th century used the semiarid lands that Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico did not want, and that Texas, after entering the Union as a slave state, could not have. Focuses particularly on agriculture and production of natural gas and helium"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

An American outback : the Oklahoma Panhandle, 1907 to 1930

The Oklahoma Panhandle in the 1930s and 1940s

Optima Dam : a failed effort to irrigate the Oklahoma Panhandle

From petroleum to pigs : the Oklahoma Panhandle in the last half of the twentieth century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [113]-131) and index.

ISBN:

0896725588

OCLC:

61027499