Panhandle

In 1880s, capital of Panhandle area. Settled when slaughter of buffalo sent Indians to live on reservations. Terminus of Santa Fe Railway, 1887. Here immigrant trains brought colonists, who plowed old Indian range into wheat fields and civilization. Settlers banked ...

Last Great Panhandle Cattle Drive to Montana

Each Spring and Summer after 1880, many Texas herds went up the trail to Northern states for fattening. For the cowboys, trail drives meant hard work. They had to turn stampedes, ford rivers and quicksand streams, and fight Indians and ...

Cradle of North Mississippi Methodism

The North Mississippi Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, now the United Methodist Church, was organized one block East on November 30, 1870. It was created from portions of the Memphis, Alabama and Mississippi Conferences - Bishop D. S. ...

Panhandle Baptists

Organized Baptist work in the Oklahoma Panhandle began Aug. 5, 1894 when the Pleasant View Baptist Church was founded with 8 charter members 1½ mi. N and 1½ mi. E of here. Meetings were in the Pleasant View school house ...

The Mormon Battalion in the Oklahoma Panhandle

From September 23 through 27, 1846, the Mormon Battalion crossed the northwestern portion of the Oklahoma panhandle. The little army's 500-plus volunteers, recruited for the Mexican War, were enlisted near Council Bluffs, Iowa, from among the first company of Mormon ...

Badlands National Park

The Badlands National Park is a 244,000 acre park that consists mainly of prairies. The park is home to numerous geological formations, especially buttes , steep, isolated hills, and it contains a large number of prehistoric fossils. The features of ...

National Historic Landmark - Ludlow Tent Colony Site

The Ludlow Tent Colony Site is significant in the history of industry for its association with a pivotal event in American history, a battle between striking coal miners and the National Guard that culminated in the destruction of the tent ...

National Historic Landmark - George Hunt Pendleton House

National Historic Landmark - George Hunt Pendleton House

From 1879 until his death, this was the residence of George Hunt Pendleton (1825-1889), lawyer and politician.

As a U.S. Senator (1879-1885), Pendleton spearheaded civil service reform.

He and his committee met here ...

National Historic Landmark-Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge

Established by an executive order of President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903, this was the first national wildlife refuge in the United States.

National Historic Landmark- Woodlands

National Historic Landmark- Woodlands

A 1788 remodeling of an older Georgian house transformed The Woodlands into one of the earliest and most advanced examples of Adamesque style domestic architecture in America.

In 1840 the land surrounding the mansion was converted into a ...