Beaver County (Okla.) -- History

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Collector. An account of the first house and post office in the Oklahoma Panhandle (Beaver County). This post office was listed as being in Tarbox, Texas.

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Historian. Correspondence, student term papers, theses and dissertations, and personal research materials regarding the history of Oklahoma and Indian Territories, the state of Oklahoma, Indians of North America and the American Southwest; teaching materials used by Dale at Harvard and the University of Oklahoma; administrative and other files of the Works Progress Administration's Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma; U.S. Government documents issued by various cabinet-level departments and agencies, including Agriculture and Interior; and a portion of the University of Oklahoma Persidential papers of James Shannon Buchanan and Stratton D. Brooks. Edward Everett Dale Photograph Collection also in repository.

Cowboy. "Reminiscences of J.H. Abbott" including settlement of No Man's Land, the XIT Ranch, Goodnight Pasture, and the Hi Koller Ranch. Also, a list of some of the ghost towns and defunct post offices during the early settlement of Beaver County, Oklahoma (1886-1903).

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Rancher. A typewritten, twenty-seven page memoir (ca. 1936) of Judy's life as a pioneer rancher in No Man's Land (the Oklahoma Panhandle area). The memoir recounts the hardships of ranching in Beaver County and the lawlessness of that area.