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	Neutral Strip (Oklahoma) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The strip was never officially named but appeared on various maps as Neutral Strip, Neutral Land, Public Land Strip, or Public Land.
		The strip was not yet surveyed, and as that was one of the requirements of the Homestead Act of 1862, the land could not be officially settled.
		When Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory joined the Union in 1907 as the single state of Oklahoma, Beaver County was divided into Beaver, Texas, and Cimarron counties.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Neutral_Strip_(Oklahoma) (686 words)

	Oklahoma Panhandle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Oklahoma Panhandle is the panhandle region of the state of Oklahoma, comprising its three westernmost counties; Cimarron County, Texas County, and Beaver County.
		It is bordered by Kansas and Colorado at 37°N on the north, New Mexico at 103°W on the west, Texas at 36.5°N on the south, and the remainder of Oklahoma at 100°W on the east.
		Oklahoma Panahandle State University is located in Goodwell, Oklahoma, 10 miles from Guymon.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Oklahoma_Panhandle (296 words)

	FOLKLIFE IN OKLAHOMA: SHARING THE WEALTH OF OUR TRADITIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Despite its youth and stereotypical image as the land of cowboys and Indians, Oklahoma is rich in a variety of cultural traditions.
		Oklahoma became a kind of mini-melting pot, but instead of being overwhelmed by the dominant ingredients, each cultural component added its own flavor to the mix, while retaining the individuality that defines the cultural pluralism found here today.
		She formerly served as the Folk Arts Coordinator for the Oklahoma Arts Council and is currently the Regional Folklorist for the Louisiana Regional Folklife Program, Region 2, which encompasses the Red River Valley and Neutral Strip.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /folk/folklifeinoklahoma.html (1981 words)

	Encyclopedia: Neutral Strip (Oklahoma) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Oklahoma is a state in the southern United States, lying mostly in the lower Great Plains, and its U.S. postal abbreviation is OK; others abbreviate the states name Okla....
		Strip can refer to: as a noun a long narrow piece cut from a sheet material (metal plastic plywood etc) a power strip a landing strip a comic strip other items of a similar shape to that above e.
		A political policy or advocacy of nonalignment or noninvolvement in conflicting alliances and of attempting to mediate or conciliate in conflicts between states: "Neutralism differs from neutrality in that it is an attitude of mind in time of peace rather than a legal status in time of war" London Times.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Neutral-Strip-(Oklahoma) (502 words)

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		Oklahoma -> History The Native American Heritage Oklahoma's Native American population is the largest in the nation—252,420 at the 1990 census.
		neutrality neutrality, in international law, status of a nation that refrains from participation in a war between other states and maintains an impartial attitude toward the belligerents.
		Neutrality is not to be confused with neutralism, or nonalignment, under international law.
	www.encyclopedia.com /searchpool.asp?target=Neutral+Strip+(Oklahoma) (596 words)

	Encyclopedia: Cimarron County, Oklahoma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Oklahoma is a South Central state of the United States (with strong Southern, Western, and Midwestern influences) and its U.S. postal abbreviation is OK; others abbreviate the states name Okla....
		Oklahoma County is at the heart of the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area and is the most populous and diverse county in the state.
		The magnitude 5.0 earthquake centered west of Oklahoma City in Canadian County was felt in all Oklahoma Counties.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Cimarron-County,-Oklahoma (392 words)

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		Oklahoma -> Geography The high, short-grass plains of W Oklahoma are part of the Great Plains, which are chilled by north winds in the winter and baked by intense heat in the summer.
		comic strip comic strip, combination of cartoon with a story line, laid out in a series of pictorial panels across a page and concerning a continuous character or set of characters, whose thoughts and dialogues are indicated by means of balloons containing written speech.
		Neutral Nation Neutral Nation, group of Native North American tribes of the Iroquoian branch of the Hokan-Siouan linguistic stock (see Native American languages).
	www.encyclopedia.com /search.asp?target=Neutral+Strip+Oklahoma&rc=10&fh=29&fr=11 (589 words)

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		Border M.D. widely and favorably known throughout thi s section of Oklahoma as founder of the Mangum Hospital, which is a source of pride to the residents of the town and a credit to its promoters.
		Coming to Oklahoma in 1901, at the opening of the Kiowa country, he secured a farm claim at Hobart, and has since been a citizen of prominence in that part of the state.
		Since he became a resident of Oklahoma, there are few Republican conventions in which his section is interested to which he has not been a delegate, and he was a member of the first Republican state canvention, March, 1908.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/1908ok_2_39.htm (8133 words)

	No Man's Land
		This left a narrow strip of land 34 miles wide between Kansas and Texas, extending from the 100th Meridian on the east to the 103rd Meridian on the west...
		In May 1890 this strip of neutral land was joined to the new Territory of Oklahoma.
		With the opening of the Unassigned Lands, the Run of April 22, 1889, at least two-thirds of the population of the Neutral Strip [estimated at 12,000 to 15,000 in 1888] had left by the summer of 1889.
	www.rootsweb.com /~okgs/no_mans_land.htm (1031 words)

	Woodward County Obits E Surnames
		This land, properly called the Cherokee Strip, or the Neutral Strip, was held in trust for the benefit of the Cherokee Nation.
		The south boundary of the Cherokee Outlet was established by a survey and treaty in 1833, defining the boundaries between the Cherokee lands to the north and the Creek and Seminole lands to the south.
		The Cherokee Strip Livestock Association was or ganized in 1880, and in 1883 leased the entire Outlet for a period of five years with an annual payment of $100,000, and then sublet it to individual ranchers or cattle companies to whom definite ranges were assigned.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/ok/county/ellis/history2.html (3550 words)

	Encyclopedia article: Oklahoma Panhandle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Oklahoma Panhandle is the region of the state of Oklahoma (A state in south central United States) comprised of the three northwestern counties; Cimarron County (additional info and facts about Cimarron County), Texas County (additional info and facts about Texas County), and Beaver County (additional info and facts about Beaver County).
		The largest town in the region is Guymon, Oklahoma which is the county seat of Texas county.
		The Panhandle was unclaimed by any state or territory from 1850, when ceded from Texas (The second largest state; located in southwestern United States on the Gulf of Mexico), until 1890, when assigned to Oklahoma Territory (additional info and facts about Oklahoma Territory) (see Neutral Strip (additional info and facts about Neutral Strip)).
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/O/Ok/Oklahoma_Panhandle.htm (223 words)

	Neutral Strip (Oklahoma): Just the facts... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was some 167 miles (268.7 km (A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles))) long and about 34.5 miles (55.522368 km) wide.
		There was still confusion over the status of the strip and some attempts were made to arrange rent with the Cherokee (A member of an Iroquoian people formerly living in the Appalachian Mountains but now chiefly in Oklahoma) s.
		The strip was not yet surveyed (additional info and facts about surveyed), and as that was one of the requirements of the Homestead Act (additional info and facts about Homestead Act) of 1862, the land could not be officially settled.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/n/ne/neutral_strip_(oklahoma)1.htm (722 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Of the thirteen farms in the Neutral Strip, it was concerning the one on which Farwell found improvements of least value that the most interesting contest occurred.
		In the early nineties settlers on the Neutral Strip occupied a tract of vacant land, used it to their advantage, and, as Barber said, held it by "brazen aggressiveness." On that score the settlers deserve no special condemnation.
		When Barber wrote that settlers on the Neutral Strip meant to resist removal by every legal quibble, political pull, and dilatory trick, he was using words that could have been applied properly to hundreds of frontiersmen for more than the space of a century.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v018/v018p060.html (7008 words)

	Historical Places of Louisiana: Neutral Ground
		A Neutral ground is established between San Juan on the South and Altamaha on the north, but the War of Jenkins Ear breaks out, to end indecisively in 1742.
		The American's Rio Grande argument was immediately rejected and consideration was focused on the strip of land between the Sabine on the West and on the line between the Calcasieu and Mermentau Rivers so as to pass between Los Adaes and Natchitoches.
		In 1806 a neutral ground¾ treaty was signed setting up a 40-mile strip of land between the Rio Hondo (just west of Natchitoches) and the Sabine River, which was supposed to remain unsettled.
	www.enlou.com /places/neutralground.htm (2365 words)

	Neutral Strip (Oklahoma) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Neutral Strip (Oklahoma) - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Neutral Strip (Oklahoma) contains research on
		Neutral Strip (Oklahoma), Origin, History, External links, See also, Oklahoma history and U.S. historical regions and territories.
	www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/No_Man%27s_Land_%28Oklahoma%29 (658 words)

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		The ground seen on the map was a strip of land set aside in 1825 at a treaty conference in Prairie du Chien, with the intend of separating the Sioux to the north and Fox/Sac nations to the south.
		In a treaty of July 15, 1830, the Sac and Fox band ceded a strip of country twenty miles wide on the south, and the Madawakanton, Wapakoota, Wahpeton and Sisiton bands of Sioux, ceded twenty miles on the north of the line of 1825, from the Mississippi River to the Des Moines.
		Thus a strip of neutral territory, forty miles wide extended from the Mississippi River west to the East fork of the Red Cedar River, was established between these ferocious tribes, on which they were permitted to hunt and fish in common, but were forbidden to fight.
	www.angelfire.com /ia/fayette2/fayette1800.htm (3995 words)

	SETTLEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Oklahoma City, first known as Oklahoma Station, was born on April 22, 1889 at 12 noon.
		A folk history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country, southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado and the neutral strip of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle.
		Oklahoma Heroes tells the stories behind the lives and deaths of 575 law officers that are memorialized on the Oklahoma Peace Officers Memorial as well as the stories of 160 lawmen whose names do not appear on the memorial.
	www.ok-history.mus.ok.us /gifts/catalog/settlement.htm (1158 words)

	Chronicles of Oklahoma
		Oklahoma Territory established (1890), a great rush of homesteaders began which was increased by the building of the Rock Island railroad from Liberal, Kansas, to Dalhart, Texas.
		After Oklahoma Territory was established, a constant and frequently bitter bickering began between the paper which won the county printing and those which did not.
		The editors and publishers of the westerly counties were true builders of their communities for they came to the Panhandle to grow up with the country, giving of their knowledge, courage and ability to voice the spirit of the people in the columns of their papers.
	digital.library.okstate.edu /Chronicles/v019/v019p141.html (7100 words)

	Louisiana Redbones (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Thus, an area from the Calcasieu River on the east, the Sabine River on the west and from near Natchitoches in the north to the Gulf of Mexico in the south, containing approximately 5000 square miles, was in dispute.
		3 The area was designated by the 1806 treaty as the "Neutral Strip" or "Neutral Zone." In 1806 both the United States and Spain were prepared for battle over this boundary when the generals in the field reached an agreement.
		It was entitled: Redbones in the Neutral Strip or No Man's Land, Between the Calcasieu and Sabine Rivers, in Louisiana and Texas Respectively, and The Westport Fight Between Whites and Redbones, For Possession of This Strip on Christmas Eve, 1882.
	dogwoodpress.myriad.net /dcm/redbone.html (8582 words)

	American History - A Western Tail
		It was an ungoverned rectangle of land bordered by Kansas on the north, Texas on the south and New Mexico on the west, an the Cherokee Strip on the east.
		Since the lawmen were afraid to enter into the parameter of the Neutral Strip, of course, that is where all the hooligans and criminals were living.
		Mexico has never reliquished her rights under this treaty, so Oklahoma has no ownership to this peice of land because the United States had no legal right to cede it to Oklahoma.
	www.electricscotland.com /history/america/wtrail.htm (884 words)

	American History - Mexihoma
		Resston VA Upon the conclusion of the Mexican War in 1848, the northern and western boundaries of Texas had not been settled with Mexico.
		It was stipulated in the treaty with Mexico that this zone should be "neutral" forever.
		If no one owns it, it is Mexican by birth, if it is not Oklahoma, it is Mexihoma, Congress passed the bill in 1853 to establish the above boundary lines, agitation over slavery induced Congress to pay Texas ten million dollars to maintain peace with Mexico and allocating the Neutral Strip as "Public Lands.
	www.electricscotland.com /HISTORY/america/mexihoma.htm (106 words)

	City History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The northern boundary of Texas (southern boundary of No Man's Land), when it entered the United States, was set by the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and extended for Texas (Texas wanted to enter as a slave state and the Compromise forbade any slave state north of the parallel).
		The area not claimed by Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, and Texas became known as No Man's Land, The Strip, and The Neutral Strip.
		Oklahoma's recorded history began in 1541 when Spanish explorer Coronado ventured through the area on his quest for the "Lost City of Gold." The land that would eventually be known as Oklahoma was part of the 1803 Louisiana Purchase.
	www.guymonok.org /History.htm (370 words)

	Edwin E. Rugg
		At that time thousands were eagerly looking forward to the opening by the Government of the neutral strip of No Man's Land in what is now the extreme western part of the State of Oklahoma.
		But this Congress failed to do, and several years before No Man's Land was made available for settlement the original Oklahoma Territory was put on the market, and most of those who had squatted in readiness to secure claims in the neutral strip accepted the opportunity to make the run into original Oklahoma.
		During her residence on the neutral strip in Oklahoma she was clerk of the school district as well as teacher.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1919ks/r/ruggee.html (1293 words)

	Oklahoma Panhandle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		Oklahoma Panhandle - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		This encyclopedia, history, geography and biography article about Oklahoma Panhandle contains research on
		Oklahoma Panhandle, 1890 establishments and Geography of Oklahoma.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Oklahoma_Panhandle (299 words)

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