Results for Panhandle
Panhandle Pioneer Settlement
Take a step back through time on 40 pristine acres, filled...
Site of an Early Barbed Wire Fence in the Panhandle
In the latter 1880's, when fencing was needed in the treel...
Finch-Lord-Nelson and the Founding of Panhandle City
Cattle firm that had brought first Herefords to region — L...
Texas Panhandle Pioneers: The Simms Brothers
Permanent citizens, forgers of local civilization. Walter ...
Panhandle
In 1880s, capital of Panhandle area. Settled when slaughte...
Last Great Panhandle Cattle Drive to Montana
Each Spring and Summer after 1880, many Texas herds went u...
Panhandle Baptists
Organized Baptist work in the Oklahoma Panhandle began Aug...
The Mormon Battalion in the Oklahoma Panhandle
From September 23 through 27, 1846, the Mormon Battalion c...
Results for Panhandle
Panhandle Pioneer Settlement
Take a step back through time on 40 pristine acres, filled with restored and replicated buildings to demonstrate the wasy of pioneer farmstead living unique to NW Florida.
Site of an Early Barbed Wire Fence in the Panhandle
In the latter 1880's, when fencing was needed in the treeless Texas Panhandle, the solution proved to be barbed wire. Joseph F. Glidden of Illinois devised and by 1876 was manufacturing (with I.L. Ellwood) the first really practical barbed wire ...
Finch-Lord-Nelson and the Founding of Panhandle City
Cattle firm that had brought first Herefords to region — Lue Finch, W.H. Lord, O.H. Nelson — in 1887 promoted Panhandle City, as railroad line approached. They sent in ten cowboys to stake claims around city, which prospered as county ...
Texas Panhandle Pioneers: The Simms Brothers
Permanent citizens, forgers of local civilization. Walter Franklin (1869-1963), George Leonard (born 1875) and Dormer D. Simms (born 1884) moved to Texas in 1886 and to this county in the early 1900's. They arrived later than visiting hunters, soldiers and ...
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 ...
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 ...
