American outback
Subtitle: the Oklahoma Panhandle in the twentieth century
By: Richard Lowitt.
Series: Plains histories
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lubbock
Language: eng
Number of pages: 137
Subjects: Oklahoma Panhandle (Okla.) -- History -- 20th century.
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: An American outback : the Oklahoma Panhandle, 1907 to 1930; title: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the nineteen thirties and forties; title: Optima Dam : a failed effort to irrigate the Oklahoma Panhandle; title: From petroleum to pigs : the Oklahoma Panhandle in the last half of the 20th century.