No Man's Land: Exploring the Dust Bowl History of the Oklahoma Panhandle

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Welcome to Wonderhussy Adventure #794
Date of adventure: 4/12-4/13/24
Exploring one of the most desolate middle-of-nowhere places I've ever been: the Oklahoma Panhandle, which was Ground Zero for the Dust Bowl.
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@johnrogers6291 20 дней назад

Sarah is a natural born narrator, a real gift.

@vernwallen4246 20 дней назад

She's also a true AMERICAN.🗽

@SWHBOYCE 20 дней назад

@@vernwallen4246 ...and more !!....

@JoryBlake 20 дней назад

Huell Howser would be proud!

@jackiewilson5276 19 дней назад

You are amazing and so knowledgeable and entertaining, Sarah! Thank you.

@erich9011 14 дней назад

@@JoryBlake I met Huell when he was doing a bit on MCAS El Toro. I always liked his work a lot.

@douglasdunnentertainment 20 дней назад

My late Father was an Okie. "The dirt just up and blowed away!", and thirteen children (needed for a large farm) were loaded on a Model T pickup with everything they could pack in it. Had to leave everything they had worked for and move. Hey! I've learned a whole lot from you. Thanks for that. My Father was the youngest of those thirteen children. There had been fifteen, but prior to the move there were two children that died. The oldest of the living, my Uncle Roy, was an entertainer who had a gig (they were live at the radio stations when it happened) playing guitar and singing. He figured, since he was going... he could fill the false floor of his car with whiskey (during prohibition days). Make a bit of extra cash to help the family be fed. He was pulled over before reaching the big city radio station, and had to spend a few years in the federal prison for bootlegging. Well... the radio station was anxious to fill the slot left open when Uncle Roy didn't show, so they went out into the street just looking for anyone... and saw a man with a guitar strapped to his back who was hanging around for just such an opportunity. That man went on to become one of the most popular entertainers of the era... Eddie Arnold. So... "Anytime... you're feeling lonely... Anytime... you're feeling blue... Anytime, you say... you want be back again... that's the time I'll be coming home to you.".

@davec9244 20 дней назад

Millions of stories like this good and bad happy and sad need to be passed on to the next generation and on thank you

@maryjomagar7154 20 дней назад

Thank you so much for telling this story!

@SherylAZ 20 дней назад

❤ this story! Thanks for sharing 😊

@mannybravo237 20 дней назад

Great story!

@BrilliantDesignOnline 19 дней назад

Thank you. And thank you WH for just doing what she does, so people like Douglas have a place to tell an amazing story like this.

@Callipygous1975 20 дней назад

The book "The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl" by Timothy Egan is a mindboggling account of the lives of people in the 30's.

@jefflogue4884 20 дней назад

Don't forget under that charming windmill you had to dig a well between 100 and 300 feet deep to reach the Ogallala Aquifer.

@Feribrat99 20 дней назад

No big rigs until the industrial tide went back to ag and the boys all told em to plow it up, buy a tractor after that OMG what could go wrong with that move? What Prairie ??? The agents had a big hand in this and industry itself had 3/4 of the blame on this to claim for themselves as being responsible for the Dust Bowl.

@steveboverie9432 18 дней назад

My grandparents had a farm in the Texas panhandle and their well had to be drilled deeper as the Oglala aquifer got lower. The water pump ran 24/7 during growing season, powered by a V8 engine.

@billlumley4245 20 дней назад

My grandparents emigrated from Scotland in 1904. settled in northwest Saskatchewan Canada, the first home & where my mom was born was a sod hut. the grew veggies on the roof. it was a 1 room shack they had 14 children. T he land is still in the family and still farmed. I am now 77 yrs &have visited the homestead many times

@proteusnz99 20 дней назад

If the U.S. wanted to improve the the history curriculum in schools, WH videos would be a great foundation, you make history come alive, then explore the old houses, the ghost towns, the fossilised reminders of past decisions. Well done. 👍👍👍❤️😊

@danstafford5977 20 дней назад

The Dust Bowl was a man-made phenomenon... the government had to step in and teach the farmers to do what's known as Contour farming!!!

@gordbaker896 19 дней назад

Not Contour Farming which is for Hilly country but Crop Rotation and Fallowing.

@379insk 18 дней назад

Actually 0-till is what is used today. We grow crops with very little rain. The government had nothing to do with it in fact it was governments that pushed black summer fallow and the moleboard plow

@mtacoustic1 14 дней назад

Just before the huge drought of the great depression; the panhandle of OK had decent rainfall and so incoming farmers participated in 'The Great Plow-up' of the area for farming; which eliminated most of the native grass protecting the soil, creating the 'dust bowl' disaster.

@pjdemario1328 20 дней назад

Wow Wonderhussy, I remember when you hit 100k subscribers. I just noticed that you are up to 266k! Five Hundred thousand …here you come 🙃

@danofall8394 20 дней назад

Western Oklahoma. Where you can watch your dog run away for 3 days.

@c.h.5998 20 дней назад

Very interesting. My father was part of the dustbowl migration into bakersfield calif. He lost half a lung as a small child because of the dust. Tough people they were..🥰

@douglasgault5458 20 дней назад

My dad's side of the family migrated to Bakersfield in the first yr of the dust. My grand father had been working the oil fields of Texas. And packed up & quit when he hadn't heard from his wife for 2 months. First week back they were on their way to calif. There was a calif road block, stopping migrants from entering the state, so he had to drive around the road block for a day in a half thru the desert. He got lucky and got his job back with Standard oil working in Taft. After 3 months living in a Migrant camp out of work. Tough times make tough men.

@c.h.5998 20 дней назад

@@douglasgault5458 my granfather and father also worked in tbe oil fields. There was such strength and resilience in these people. They lived in cars, built makeshift houses.then achieved the american dream. The greatest generation. So proud of my heritage.🥰

@InternetJury 19 дней назад

My paternal biological grandfather came from Oklahoma to Bakersfield, too! Was any of your family part of the Choctaw group? Unfortunately, he abandoned my dad after his wife died (and there's a story there... she got pregnant as a teenager and then eloped to Vegas and lied about her age), and my dad was adopted by a family in Visalia. We only had vague information, but was told that his father was Choctaw from the Oklahoma Territory and came to work the rail/oil with many of the Dust Bowlers. To this day, the largest Choctaw membership outside of Oklahoma is right in Bakersfield. I'm told it's the whitest group of Native Americans most people have ever seen. LOL

@c.h.5998 19 дней назад

Chicasaw

@ElwoodAndersonNV 20 дней назад

I gave this one wide circulation because it was very educational about the history of the area. My parents experienced the dry thirties in North Dakota. In the northern states the meridian divided the state into what was called the tall grass prairies on the east and the short grass prairies on the west. After the crop failures of the thirties, crop rotation and summer fallowing were introduced. Only half the acreage was planted each year with the grain crops. In between the planted areas, the soil was left unplanted, but was tilled to turn the vegetation (prairie grass and weeds) over into the soil to make it more productive when it was planted the next year. Fertilization was not used during this time. Now crop rotation and summer fallowing has been replaced by fertilization and all the land is planted in crops, with some new crops like soy beans and sunflowers replacing the minor crops like oats and flax. Wheat remains as one of the major crops on both sided of the meridian. Thanks for taking the time to explain the history of the No Mans Land and the dust bowl. I imagine this is new knowledge for many of your subscribers.

@gypsychappell8451 20 дней назад

My family had a farm in the northeastern corner of Oklahoma until 2000. Our family farm is mentioned in many accounts of the Trail of Tears. Our land had an artesian spring, lots of vegetation, shelter from the winter, and plenty of places to bury their dead.

@kingcraven8056 20 дней назад

Green Acres. Eddie Albert was a huge proponent of sustainable farming and spent a large part of his life giving speeches petitioning the gov and teaching farmers good practices in the area. Lose the top soil you lose everything. Climate migration. They used to stop Okie's from coming to Cali at the border, pre ACLU. Strange time in history and one that shouldn't be forgotten.

@jubelet 20 дней назад

"The History Guy" would say it "deserves to be remembered." Didn't know that about Eddie Arnold!

@LeTrashPanda 20 дней назад

My mom came from this land and grew up during the Dust Bowl, thanks for covering this spot and it's history. There was no land for anyone to "inherit" so after my grandparents passed they walked away from the farm. I'm a CA person that can trace my roots to OK, my mom moved there when she was 14, my uncles showed up later (were stationed at Long Beach in the Navy) then WWII happened.

@TheBandit7613 20 дней назад

Farmers often take short term loans to get by until harvest time. If it was a bad year, they'd lode the farm. Not many people looking to live there so the bank lets the property go for taxes and there it sits. Or, the people die, the kids long moved away, can't sell the farm, no one wants it. So it goes back to the county for taxes. Either way, people are leaving the rural places.

@jdrakeh 20 дней назад

I have a lot of relatives who grew up in the panhandle during the 1930s and 40s (and a few who still live there). There's a certain beauty to the solitude out there.

@stephenkrawiecki2170 20 дней назад

The old tractor shown at 29:30 is a rare type of tractor. It ran on propane gas. The propane tank is located just ahead of the steering wheel.

@jeremyyff3632 10 дней назад

A Case LA

@TheJonathandenney 20 дней назад

I grew up in far Southwest Kansas and went to college at Oklahoma Panhandle State University in Goodwell, Oklahoma, so I know that area very well!

@billwhitenack1662 20 дней назад

Ahh Tumble Weed Tech! An Okie here!

@PaulShaw-ex7ri 20 дней назад

Home of Robert Etbauer.

@chuckwilson2301 20 дней назад

Yeah Jonathandenny I also want to OPSU. Grew up in Southeast Colorado, and currently live there. Like you, I know the area well. Have never minded living in this 5 state region. GO Aggies!!

@pigoff123 20 дней назад

No man's land was also the name of the border area between West and East Germany. We accidentally drove in it in the 70s and my mom flipped out telling my dad to turn around. And for all those college students that argued with me there WAS a wall around East Germany separating Germany into two countries. I was there. I know it is true.😅

@Britcarjunkie 20 дней назад

I got to venture through Checkpoint Charlie a few times ...🙂

@pigoff123 19 дней назад

I did too. We went on a few shopping tours in East Berlin. Got my passport stamped.

@patriciaeich1098 19 дней назад

My late mother-in-law (1920-2015) lived in a sod house in North Dakota as a young child. My late mother (1924-2019) grew up in southwest Kansas and lived through the dust bowl. Last month on one of my road trips, I started in southwest Kansas and drove to the east border to visit family I hadn’t seen for decades along the way. Very satisfying trip. I drove some of old Route 66 on the eastern side of Oklahoma. That side of the state is beautiful. Going back soon, I hope to drive the rest of Historic Route 66.

@toymaster5464 20 дней назад

Hey Wonderhussy. It seems that both you and Steve from Sideshow Adventues post your videos at 9:00 pst! So I flip a coin to determine which one I'll view first. You won this time! 😂 keep em coming Wonderhussy!

@airdrop1670 20 дней назад

I 35 highway is for the most part the dividing line from the wetter east and the drier west . The problem with the dust bowl was that the farmer had no idea about wind breaks and the wind blew and blew unrestricted like it always had . After they looked at the problem the Government pushed planting trees on fence lines to break the wind up .

@richwhitaker1506 20 дней назад

The Great Wonderhussy Trek to view the eclipse continues to produce interesting and informative videos. Hardscrabble farms existed before the Dustbowl years and ever since. So many hopes and dreams. Every property has its own story. Thanks for illuminating this mid-continent,middle of nowhere story. 😊Stay safe Sarah.

@jtcbrt 20 дней назад

"Sooners" were the crooks who jumped the gun and staked out land before they were supposed to.

@richardelliott8352 20 дней назад

I was hoping someone would correct the mis-statement.

@annmariesikorski5364 20 дней назад

NEBRASKA! Thank you for being the hub of the Ogallala Aquifer‼️ Thank you Wonderhussy for another dive into history like only you can do, but you forgot Nebraska‼️I can testify, I had covered wagon ancestors that located and stayed in Nebraska and lived through not only dust storms, but grasshoppers and Indian raids before the dust storms. But with that prairie wind, dust is a way of life. Imagine living in that vast land in during what seems like a endless winter? It drove many folks crazy. ☮️💜

@pamelaromero2364 19 дней назад

My grandmother was born in a “Soddy” in 1889 in Beatrice, Nebraska.

@skippyz5603 20 дней назад

From Liberal Ks. My whole family came to farm here around 1870. My grandfather and dad had to leave during the drought and and dust bowl. All around the families moved west and my family moved to Iowa. WW2 started and 5 boys including my dad went to fight. My dad served in WW2, Korea and Vietnam where I was born.

@fraserflamond2151 20 дней назад

Really cool! I noticed when you mentioned all the States where people settled to farm you did miss that when lands were opened up many Americans crossed the border into the Alberta and Saskatchewan territory and to this day their descendants have built up huge farming empires. So many of my neighbours up here their great great grandparents came from Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas etc etc to farm the western Canadian prairies. Lots of old abandoned farm houses here also.

@jimstanford9899 20 дней назад

Thank you for the very interesting video! That must have been a tough life. I wonder how many of today's generation could have survived out there. They were one tough breed of people.

@krisgalusha9820 20 дней назад

My grandfather and grandmother were born in Indian territory near Ponca City. They stayed.

@fastrat37 19 дней назад

Makes me think of the movie "The Grapes of Wrath" with Henry Fonda! Nice work Sarah!

@kendallsmith1458 19 дней назад

Henry Fonda?

@fastrat37 19 дней назад

@@kendallsmith1458 Thank you!

@grimsmith1 20 дней назад

Haha! We have a Nomansland, (Spelt that way) Here in the UK, Cornwall to be precise!

@martharetallick204 20 дней назад

Cornish American here! Give my regards to Cornwall.

@grimsmith1 19 дней назад

@@martharetallick204 Will do! I'm passing through Torpoint later today!

@richardbirkenwald811 15 дней назад

The young generations have so much to learn about their ancestors than just discovering how their iphone works and exploring social media. The toughness comes from hard times.

@madDadMusic 20 дней назад

I've learned a whole lot from the Wonderhussy channel!

@jubelet 20 дней назад

Indeed!

@GigglesGaloreous 20 дней назад

Great job, Wonderhussy. Used to live in Boise City. The stove in the second house was an avocado green O'Keefe & Merritt. Straight outta the early 1970s.

@farmermark2067 20 дней назад

Great episode Sarah! I recommend reading "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Eagan as well as watching Ken Burns documentary "The Dust Bowl". The big dust clouds/storms are called haboobs and still are happening to this day and recent ones can be seen on RU-vid. Love your channel, keep up the great work!

@ianvesterby1108 20 дней назад

That was fascinating hearing about No Man's Land, I never knew about that. A couple of months ago I found some maps drawn by my great grandfather in 1899. In those maps he labeled the western part of Oklahoma as Indian Territory.

@airdrop1670 20 дней назад

LOL that house you stopped to look over is probably a shell as termites were terrible , my Aunt & Uncles milk house was like that , the wood furniture in it was eaten up . Around 1958 I was staying with them for a week and one evening after they milked their cow we seen a dark cloud up by Alva Ok , when we were done the wind hit and the sand was blowing side ways might of been 40 MPH or more , the sky went dark as night , at bed time I heard tin roofing flying by the house some were , it may of been one of the last dust storms from the dust bowl era .

@user-md8ie5cs8m 20 дней назад

That was a really good video. I actually had a client who just recently passed away who survived the dust bowl she taught me all about it and she also introduced me to the Burl Ives music. The name of the song was big rock Candy Mountain. You should listen to it. It’s pretty cool. She was 96 an amazing woman.

@Snarkapotamus 19 дней назад

I know that song...

@marjorieanderson8626 15 дней назад

Harry McClintock wrote that song in 1895. Didn't record it until 1928. It didn't not become a "hit" until 1939. Burl Ives version was 1949.

@gep27 20 дней назад

I'm already fascinated at the 3:00 mark. Okay, gotta get back to this.

@websterbarstone 19 дней назад

I read a great book once called Covered Wagon Geologist. The author, Charles Gould, spent his long life as a geologist, starting in the 1890’s. He spent a lot of time traveling that area with many others in the service of both the state of Oklahoma and private industry checking out the topography for features that would be likely to make drilling for oil profitable. Prior to the dust bowl, he was the head man for geology for the state of Oklahoma, and he read with alarm how huge areas of grassland were being opened up for farming. He wrote on his official stationary to the head person in charge of agriculture, telling him that he had been all over that area, and that the natural grass that grew there had deep roots. He told him that plowing it up would be a mistake because the soil underneath was loose and the area was subject to extreme wind. The answer he received told him, paraphrasing,” look, I’m sure you know something about geology, but you don’t know anything about agriculture. Leave agriculture to the people that know something about it.” It’s in his book.

@tedspradley 17 дней назад

Great video. In my parents’ case, recovery from the dust bowl happened when WWII started. Dad’s family moved from West Texas cotton farm to the big city of Wichita Falls TX after so many years of drought and got jobs making Levi jeans. WWII starting and entry into the US Army meant two new pairs of shoes and three meals a day. After the war, dad marries mom, they live for a year or two in WF then made the move to Houston where they were able to make a good living.

@michaelalan6840 19 дней назад

Hi Sarah, you just gave us a huge history lesson, thank you! I spent a summer as a bartender at the East Side Tavern in Pueblo, CO during the cool as could be 1970s. When it was time to return to college, I only had $40 in my pocket, so I thumbed my way thru CO, KS, then south thru OK, then east on I20 all the way to my cousin's home in Canton, GA. I enjoyed the trip down to Dallas. OK had green hills & never ending sky! I've always wondered about the dust bowl during the depression years. You're an amazing lecturer of history & so sexy too!

@Britcarjunkie 20 дней назад

Those dust clouds weren't just a mile high, they were MILES high! The dust clouds were so big, even New York City was hit hard. Bad times.

@kxrv6629 20 дней назад

Sarah - You’ve really stretched your wings on this video. Not many people know the history of No Man’s Land. In our 7 years of RVing all over North America… this is the closest we’ve come to running out of fuel in our RV. After unwisely not filling up with Diesel in Boise City there was no open filling station until we got down to New Mexico. We stayed at a nice state park with petrified wood and dinosaur tracks near Kenton. In Kenton we went to the fascinating local museum. The woman working there had been born there when it was a house and moved back to Kenton when she retired. By the way we stopped at the Herzstein Memorial in Clayton, NM. They had an excellent Dust Bowl exhibit. I had no idea the Dust Bowl extended into New Mexico?

@davidsiler5505 20 дней назад

My dads dad is from Oklahoma! My great grandfather is buried in the same town that his son, who is also my grandfather, was born in!

@charlottewilson4680 20 дней назад

I live in Oklahoma and grew up in Oklahoma just West of the 100 meridian. This was very accurate. Thanks for the shout out.

@valerielewis7870 19 дней назад

Thanks for this history lesson. My grandma was born in Beaver county OK in a sod house. She escaped the dust bowl by marrying my grandfather who took her with him to Chicago. They worked for Pullman and my grandma was first runner up in the Mrs Pullman pageant.

@Sawhorse129 20 дней назад

The Cherokee used to be in the eastern and Midwestern states so they were forced to the west, not not the east.

@victoriamaaske7420 20 дней назад

You did a very good explanation of the history. My Dad was raised in western Nebraska that had the severe drought too in the 1930s. There is a really good do umentary about the dust bowl area in the 1930s.

@victoriamaaske7420 20 дней назад

They had a sod house on the original farm.

@jeffreymiller5447 19 дней назад

You should be on the History channel. I always feel a little bit smarter after watching your adventures. Best darn History teacher that I ever had.

@brakerbraker829 20 дней назад

Miss Hussy's unconventional but factual history lessons are like a wind sweeping over the YT plains. When will she receive her first academic robe and head wear?

@Multisportamateur 20 дней назад

I was thinking the same? Having a PhD next to her name would give her some street cred too. Hehe.

@hestheMaster 20 дней назад

You mean like a professor Wonderhussy or Doctor Wonderhussy? A PhD in both travelocity ( travels wisely ) and communication ( wordsmith) would be most likely.

@tommylitz4543 20 дней назад

26:40 the Olive colored oven, along with the shag carpeting, screams 1970.

@leedanielson7452 17 дней назад

Sure does!

@geminicancer1163 20 дней назад

Here is how sooners got that name. in 1889, people poured into central Oklahoma to stake their claims to nearly 2 million acres opened for settlement by the U.S. government. Those who entered the region before the land run's designated starting time, at noon on April 22, 1889, were dubbed “sooners.”

@GeneSavage 18 дней назад

THANK YOU. This is what I came to say. My great-great grandfather played by the rules and rode at the shot of the gun to property he'd already scoped out. On the land was a guy who already had a fire built, his horse wasn't winded... it was obvious he'd come out illegally early... he was a "Sooner." All my great- granddad had to do was touch the butt of his gun, and the guy got up, grabbed his stuff, hopped on his horse and rode away. My great-great grandfather was able to claim the land he wanted. (The newspapers of the day described a "massive gunfight," but my great-grandmother assured my dad that was NOT what happened; they were just trying to sell newspapers, lol)

@paullewis195 20 дней назад

The first land run was in 1889, not 1907. 1907 was the year Oklahoma became a state. Thanks for visiting the Sooner State. I hope you enjoyed it!

@BenClason 19 дней назад

My family founded Kingfisher Ok. Grandma before she passed at 94, talked about getting attacked by Indians on a covered wagon. Farmed all of her life while grandpa did airforce career, three wars.

@marjorieanderson8626 15 дней назад

To be accurate though. Kingfisher wasn't founded by "one" family. It was founded in the April 1889 land run by a number of people. And your Grandma wasn't attacked in a covered wagon by Indians in Oklahoma. There were none by 1889

@jimkessler2001 20 дней назад

Great vid, WH ! You are a True American Historian.... You should be awarded an Honorary Degree from some Higher Institution. Greetings from Fife, Scotland. ( I love you, BTW . In a Platonic way ) James . XX

@CivilianDevelopment 20 дней назад

American as appl- American as Wonderhussy! 🇺🇸 🫡 ✌️ yet ANOTHER great video!

@ChristinaColoradoan 19 дней назад

Interestingly enough, my great uncle was H.H. Finnell who was intramemtal in the education of the farmers and the "restoration" of that whole area down into Texas. If I'm not mistaken another huge problem were the newly introduced disc plows.

@user-zi2zs8zs4v 20 дней назад

Greetings from Oklahoma ❤!!

@Plantagenaut 20 дней назад

1889 was the land run. It took till 1907 to become a state.

@kimballamram552 19 дней назад

Oil was discovered there that helped it become a state

@mollyjones4165 18 дней назад

Thank you for coming out here! Fits in nicely with all the pioneer and middle of nowhere videos. It's a fabulous idea to explore this! What is incredible about that 100th parallel is if you drive west on I-40 you can see with your own eyes the difference between western Oklahoma with the livestock and wheat fields and the Texas Panhandle which is desolate and not much there except a giant feed lot. Really can see what the dude was talking about with "not suitable for agriculture."

@johnburton8135 20 дней назад

Interesting, informative and…..adorable! Wonderhussy magic!

@Gryphonisle 20 дней назад

When my grandfather took the family on a cross country road trip from NY state to Ca, in 1939, rather than tie the wooden tent poles and canvas tent to the fenders and running boards, or make a box for the roof, he took out the back seat and put all their stuff and camping gear in the large open space behind the front seat. My 5 year old mother got to sit in the front seat, but her younger, and teenage brothers had to sit on all that stuff, all the way out and all the way back. Why? So no one would mistake them for Okies. It must have been a great trip though, to see an America before the big chains and freeways. and strip malls… Don’t forget the original farm bill. It paid farmers not to plant as farmers had demonstrated an addicts inability to stop growing a crop they thought was a money maker, until they’d crashed the price and destroyed the soil. Nixons Ag dept changed that program to the massive crop subsidies we know today, when food inflation became an issue in Nixons reelection. I think that was a Bauer Ring Ware pot in that macrame you walked past-dust bowl era California pottery and worth a pretty penny today!

@richardelliott8352 20 дней назад

my father grew up on a chicken ranch where the land was purchased from someone who was in the land rush exactly to sell their claim. he joined the army air corp the day he graduated from high school, fought WW2, got a G.I. loan on a house in California and raised kids.

@josemramos4371 19 дней назад

THANKS for the Lesson...

@Latnman101 18 дней назад

Love your history narrative!!!

@u2cancatchme 20 дней назад

Fascinating ❤ love your adventures 😊

@TheBayoutransplant 19 дней назад

Thank you for a great, another history lesson.

@jenniferhaar7934 20 дней назад

This was a fascinating video! Thank you for your insights Wonderhussy!!

@carol65rv 19 дней назад

Thank you so much for all your hard work and research.

@TheWalnut47 19 дней назад

Excellent video. Thank you, Sarah Jane.

@craigoffutt7641 19 дней назад

Nice history lesson WH. I enjoy these

@leighclaude 18 дней назад

Love your Videos!!!!

@valmor9495 19 дней назад

Enjoy your historical videos way better than hot springs info.Well done!

@norcaldeemichaels 19 дней назад

The running joke amongst Texans is that the skinny part of OK above the TX panhandle is how Oklahomans corner the sheep😅

@kenycharles8600 19 дней назад

You gotta herd them to a bluff or a cliff. They back up right away. Or so I have been told. The sheep, not the Okies.

@donaldpowell3469 20 дней назад

Good video. You keep them interesting. Thanks for sharing

@gilharper9519 20 дней назад

History class is in session! Thank you Teacher Hussey

@banditjones3632 20 дней назад

Informative entertainment. Great show.

@charlottewilson4680 20 дней назад

You never disappoint!

@michellegold123 19 дней назад

Thank you for such a geography lesson, the things I didn't know and now I do

@luckyeagle7789 19 дней назад

Wonderhussy... much respect... what a wonderful history lesson... amazing vlog.

@user-dj7rm1by3p 19 дней назад

Interesting as always 🙂

@MsDee_777 20 дней назад

I read a book about the Dust Bowl and boy it was knarly what people went through! LOVE your videos Wonder Hussy!!!

@ralphcrosby4051 19 дней назад

Thanks for sharing the adventure and the history stay safe wild and free 🎉❤

@dianejohnson1991 19 дней назад

This was a great history story

@bradleyjanes2949 20 дней назад

Great tour, thank you😅

@auntieclara1811 19 дней назад

This is my favorite kind of video you do. Very interesting and informative.

@blainehalley2201 19 дней назад

I have watched many, many of your wonderful videos Sarah. This one of your best.

@nicholasstrauss 19 дней назад

fine history lesson, thanks, SJ for the teaching and learning. there's so much out here!

@joseluiscastillo6170 20 дней назад

Thank you WH, I did learn something from you today.

@loricalnon5836 20 дней назад

Great video. Love the history

@flyhead5972 20 дней назад

Thanks sharing for your historical homework. I’ve been in a few Haboobs in New Mexico, quite the experience. I left my truck windows cracked open when one hit, it took a bit to vacuum it out.

@spudwas 19 дней назад

Classic sign of Evictions in those two houses you visited.

@r0024smith 20 дней назад

Another good story, Thank you Sarah!

@MrSpork1978 20 дней назад

Great video. I always look forward to Wed and Fridays to see your next installment. Love to get 3 videos a week. You rock.

@theodoredesmarais4219 19 дней назад

I look forward to your posts , you do such a good time of making the middle of nowhere interesting ! Your history and insight into the minds of those who once lived..... Shine On Wonderhussy !

@mikescott6978 19 дней назад

Great video, I've always wanted to drive through the panhandle of Oklahoma. I love the way you see the history and stories of the areas you explore.

@LesMorrisracing 20 дней назад

Thanks Sarah, learned something today Be Safe out there

@peggyr2181 20 дней назад

You are so interesting and fun, I have driven the I 40 so many times and you actually check out the abandoned farms. That is why you have such a successful channel.

@Joe-zt7ef 20 дней назад

Wonderhussy you just keep getting better and better at what you do :) keep em coming

@pamguyton4597 20 дней назад

Listen to John Cougar Mellancamp's song "Rain on the Scarecrow". I am picturing farm foreclosures from the 1970s & 80s causing the farms' abandonments.