5 Fascinating Places in the Oklahoma Panhandle

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The Oklahoma panhandle is a sneakily fascinating place and learning about the geography and history of the area teaches about the rest of America. The borders of the panhandle formed due to our history of slavery and the geography is beautiful, with mesas, buttes, sand dunes and sweeping plains.
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Missouri Compromise
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Guymon Languages
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Ogallala Aquifer
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100th Meridian
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Black Mesa
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00:00 Introduction
00:26 36th Parallel and Panhandle History
02:28 100th Meridian and High Plains
03:26 Ogallala Aquifer
04:59 Black Mesa
06:34 Guymon

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@archstanton_live 6 месяцев назад

Most excellent summary of a geographically curious area. It encompasses history, geology, geography, ethnography, even a little modern religion and some insight into the future of the region underlain by Ogalala aquifer.

@planetbell1 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@safetybuddy 6 месяцев назад

Guymon OK is a great place to live. I loved it. I have never seen a town so respectful of its veterans. It is a fact the stargazing in that region is phenomenal.

@planetbell1 6 месяцев назад

It seems like it. It was a nice place to visit. Thanks for commenting.

@TYProle 6 месяцев назад

Guymon sucks, get real.

@markusschmied2237 2 месяца назад

Concentrated charge of info, quite a bit of which was novel to me! Thanks for filling this void! :)

@planetbell1 2 месяца назад

Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for your comments!

@paulis7319 3 месяца назад

I've always wondered what the story was behind that little sliver of land. Now I have this crazy interest to go visit for a few days (or weeks or months if I enjoy it) and experience it for myself. If I ever do, I'll document it.

@planetbell1 3 месяца назад

I really like the Panhandle. I made another video about my road trip there last summer. It has an interesting history and some stunning landscapes, but a lot of flat land too :)

@paulis7319 3 месяца назад

@@planetbell1 Nice! I'll watch that tomorrow. I just "flew" over it in Google Earth's flight simulator (retired pilot) and it looks hella boring yet interesting!

@Dennisrader-ff9gv 6 месяцев назад

You gotta be tough to live out here, you gotta be tougher than a pine knot to live outside of the towns.

@planetbell1 6 месяцев назад

Very true. It isn't an easy place to be.

@johnsharp8627 6 месяцев назад

Oklahoma is a beautiful state! I live in East Central Kansas. Much to see yet in Kansas, but you have intrigued me about visiting Oklahoma with your videos.

@planetbell1 6 месяцев назад

What should I visit in east central Kansas? Thanks for watching! I appreciate your comments.

@johnsharp8627 6 месяцев назад

@@planetbell1 Well...after seeing such beautiful scenery in Oklahoma, the only thing I can come up with in East Central Kansas is "The Flint Hills."

@planetbell1 6 месяцев назад

I'll keep that in mind. Thank you!

@TYProle 6 месяцев назад

You should do a video on the Albert Pike Highway and his followers, like Cyrus Avery, with the Albert Pike Highway Association headquartered in Tulsa.

@planetbell1 6 месяцев назад

That is a great suggestion. I'll look into it. Thank you.

@HighSpeedNoDrag 3 месяца назад

I know it's considerably cooler in the OK panhandle than a majority of the state due to the higher elevations.

@planetbell1 3 месяца назад

For sure! It can be a blizzard in the panhandle and just rain everywhere else

@kcinks 13 дней назад

not really cooler, just lower humidity. It is plenty hot in August

@dantaylor4991 6 месяцев назад

Black Mesa definitely isn't the most extreme temperature differences. try looking in Minnesota and North Dakota. Grand Forks North Dakota has reported a high of 109F and a low of -43F

@planetbell1 6 месяцев назад

Thanks for the info.

@geraldmiller5260 6 месяцев назад

Been to this area.

@planetbell1 6 месяцев назад

Did you like it?

@tomthoelke8343 6 месяцев назад

My wife and I grew up there. Left there to raise my kids. Lack of high paying jobs and a rising crime rate around Guymon forced us out. We grew up in Texhoma. I still miss my friends and the quiet rural areas sometimes.

@planetbell1 6 месяцев назад

The lack of jobs is the problem, right? Housing is so cheap there, but what jobs are you going to do? Thanks for sharing. I moved away from rural Oklahoma as well but love to visit.

@alandavis9644 5 месяцев назад

My great grandfather was the land commissioner mentioned, he was responsible for bri ging no mans land into the state of Oklahoma. I have a original Spanish land grant document filed in Beaver City in 1904.

@planetbell1 5 месяцев назад

Wow! That is so cool.

@alandavis9644 5 месяцев назад

@@planetbell1 I have a trove of historical documents and pictures, letters handwriting between him and President regarding getting the Panhandle included with Oklahoma becoming a State. If interest we need to get together! That Spanish land grant is here beside me at this moment. It is the original document with Beaver City land office stamped on in in 1904. The Daily Oklahoman did a special front page article on him in 1929 titled The Saga of the Cimmeron " just before he died. You might find that in there archives, I am running down a copy of it at my sisters house. Let's get together, I got the real story to tell! BTW did you know Kevin Cosner's grandfather went broke out at Guymon area, lots of Cosners (relatives)neighbors still out there. He has a speech about it on RU-vid.

@planetbell1 4 месяца назад

@@alandavis9644 Hey Alan, I'd love to meet up and do a video. My email is planetbell1@gmail.com I'll be back in Oklahoma this summer. Shoot me an email and we can find a time to meet.

@alandavis9644 4 месяца назад

@@planetbell1 I live in West Central Missouri, close to Warrensburg.

@anthonytalbert399 Месяц назад

I liveout here.... its a nightmare

@planetbell1 Месяц назад

Why is it a nightmare? I can see it being a tough place to live - it always has been!

@williamstamper442 5 месяцев назад

Its the 36 and a 1/2 parallel. Your video starts out wrong. Lets see what is done wrong next... Edit : ok you are redeeming yourself and thank you for around 5:32 where you gave your viewers an option on which we stand...either 70 million years ago and 5000 years ago...which makes more sense if you take the Indoctrination out of ones self... Carry on...

@planetbell1 5 месяцев назад

You are right - I could have been more specific on the 36th parallel. Thanks for noticing.

@kevinstreeter6943 Месяц назад

If few people live there, why couldn't we let the natives keep it?

@planetbell1 Месяц назад

That is a great question. The land isn't very valuable, and life has always been hard out there. After statehood, this area was the epicenter of the Dust Bowl.

@kevinstreeter6943 Месяц назад

@@planetbell1 I was not talking just about the panhandle. I meant the high plains. Over 90% of WY is owned by the government.

@kevinstreeter6943 Месяц назад

Look up Greenland. It is run by natives and lives peacefully and interacts with Europeans. We could have had the same here.