I am a 67 year old Edmond, OK native. My father's family homesteaded in Blaine County in 1890. My mother's family settled in the Shawnee area, although my grandfather moved here in the 1920's from Colorado. All that being said, while I have been to most areas of the state, I have yr to visit the panhandle. Thank you for sharing a drive I would like to take.
Although our family took part in the Oklahoma Land Rush and have pictures of it, most of us moved to Texas before the 1920's. Thank you for this series you have been doing about Oklahoma.
It appears that nature is reclaiming many of the landmarks that represent the Dust Bowl era. I certainly hope that what happened there is never forgotten. As with most videos recorded in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, it's obvious that farming is still a vibrant part of the economy, which means people will still populate the area to some extent. Thanks for sharing!
this is the first county I think you explored that I have driven all over, too, and seen because of the job I had down there. There was an old house you showed at the beginning of this and i think I have been there, or to one like it, and walked around inside of it. I said to myself if I had a bunch of money that house would be great to have rebuilt exactly as it is now. would be the perfect size to me and out in the middle of nowhere.
I remember hearing of Caroline Henderson - how cool that you found her actual house!!! Love Yarbrough's football field....small town, rural living must be the best. As always, your drone shots and imagery of the wide open spaces are breathtaking, they never get old. Thank you for another mentally and visually stimulating video!
Love wide open spaces, they are disappearing all too quickly. Glad you're finding beautiful places. Would you have your subscribers check, I've discovered on several of the RUclips channels I am no longer a subscriber and my likes disappeared as well. I realize this is detrimental to your monetization. I have no clue why this happens as I watch and re-watch the videos. Hopefully you can get this fixed. I enjoy your videos! Stay safe and GOD bless
That’s very strange - I’m not sure what that is but I’ll ask some others. The channel has been doing well lately so I’m thankful for that and your support!
I found Yarbrough School on Google maps. It's really large and nice looking. It must take care of the whole county. Kuhn Cemetery has 10 graves listed on Find a Grave. What a challenge Caroline Henderson and her husband must have had! Can't imagine living out there at that time. Really nice that you found her homestead. I guess she and her husband had a daughter who became a doctor.
I could never live anywhere without trees. I bought my land because the house was situated in all the old trees. It's not like now where they clear the land and build the house and then plant the trees.😊
Thank you for the videos. I take it that you love being out in the middle of nowhere. Me too! You probably don’t have to worry about snakes being in the high grass, but the chiggers would be my main concern. Just mix up a spray bottle with water and lavender oil. Spray on yourself. Voila! No chiggers. Guaranteed.
A great book regarding the Dust Bowl days is ‘The Worst Hard Time’. The book covers the OK panhandle extensively. A great book that reminds us we live in easy times compared to our ancestors.
Interesting place the pan handle. Enjoyed the drone shots a lot. Are you going to roll thru Hooker? Rode through 4 or 5 years ago on the Hawg. They had an old cop car parked with a dummy in it to slow folks down I suspect. It got my attention
I do generally In the original times Family did bury in their property or near town My ancestors are on some one property in lake city and Harper At least the parents. They don’t move them unless to far gone etc. Find a grave is trying to get them online plus the cemetery etc. on the old ones.
Love Texas ❤️. Southern West Coast Canadian here. Victoria BC Canada. Texas County Mountie, eh !! y'all . Love your videos. It's all about me . Camera on me. Watch your vids all the time, dude.
I think the building at Unity was the Gym. The school itself is gone. Four Corners was basically a just a gas station and food when I grew up a few miles from there before the 80's.
I like your videos so much!! The grasshopper brought back memories from 1990s with my 4 babies. My husband, our 4 little ones were going for a ride when our 5 year old son asked what those little hairs were on the grasshoppers head. We told him it was his antennas. After a few quiet seconds, he said "poor grasshopper, I bet his TV is really messed up". A gem from my Baby. 😂 😂. Thank you so much from this 82+ year old. ❤️
I lived in guymon Oklahoma in 2016 yeah it had a few basic things Walmart Dollar general you know all the usual stuff but from guymon over man talking about a desolate piece of land everything from hooker too liberal, but Texas county all the way to the Colorado New Mexico area he really got to do some homework to find the good history around there
Im not 100% sure that yarbrough is an actual town at least not now, I havent researched it but it might have been a consolidation of a couple schools. I think its really cool that the football field survived as they havent played since 2005
WOW! This is almost as desolate as your highway 50 series! But even then, there is so much history. And even mystic with all the information that is missing. Cosmos Cemetery? Maybe the burial place of intergalactic travels who died during the westward migration of soace travel type? Might of been good that you didn't walk the cemeteries! Opps! My imagination is running away again.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Just as long as you didn't hear the musical tones from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"! Maybe you should carry some kind of music tone maker just in case.
I live east of Guymon and we have a old schoolhouse on our property. We live near Adams OK and Optima Dam an unincorporated town. It’s a really interesting town to look through. I would be interested to see you come this way!
Nice! Looking forward to the video! Hooker is an interesting town. Don’t forget to stop by The Chamber of Commerce if you have time. There is a book people sign in from around the world.
Hiway 54 is a major road,traveling it many times. Too bad that so many places are basically abandoned ,except for a few that stay there to farm. Beautiful country I think. Thanks. 😊
We watched this video this morning and it was quite interesting. That territory is amazing in the history and how anyone could survive living there. You had to be tough for sure. Looking forward to the next one. Good work on the history.
I actually had a great night of star gazing when I stayed near Black Mesa in a previous video! My camera doesn’t pick up the stars very well unfortunately.
Another great series started. Looking forward to the next part. Did see the no man's land one and that was cool to. The only thing I know about the panhandle is it used to be apart of Texas at one time. 😊
Hey Coach. Drone was good looking out. Caroline Henderson epitomized the term primary source research in her writings. The house has a calm and slightly spooky shadow it doth cast.Walk on Mr, .......keep on T.C.B.
You mentioned in the beginning of this video, highway 54. Back in the early years of the 1970s my family (dad stayed home) and I took highway 54 through Oklahoma heading for the Southwest and made it to Tucson Az. Boy howdy, that was a trip. We had a station wagon and pulled a small camper trailer (the bottom was metal and you pulled out some canvas for the top) and that's where we slept. We called home once and told Dad where we were and he couldn't believe that we had traveled so far away. Thank you for the memories and for the trip in No Man's Land. I wonder how it got that name? Happy trails to you and God bless.
It was a geographical left behind. It wasn't a part of any state until Oklahoma became a territory and was tacked on. Even now it is forgotten about, as a kid, I remember the school maps showing the panhandle detached and placed at the bottom of the map.
In 2002, I went to Guymon for a sister-city exchange festival. (I worked in Alabama where the other sister city was.) You don't end up there by accident! My coworker and I arrived in town and there was nobody. Totally deserted. Found out that everyone in town was attending the local high school football game.
Well that four corners is just bizarre Because it looks like it was set up in the last 20 to 30 years And it just never took off? When nothing else survives it looks like farming always makes it through! Now that Eva is really interesting and I am going to watch if I can the documentary.
In the 70's there was a roadside zoo behind the grocery/cafe. Stopped there one morning to use payphone a was surprised by the roar of a lion! There were several other exotic animal I found out later. The cafe and gas station was in operation in the mid 70s but I wouldn't say they were prosperous.
@@kevinstewart3321 strange sounds like they made a roadside zoo Kevin? I suspect those never aged well? It seems that 1 in 10 small towns is still thriving the rest are in decline or have ceased - it’s almost like there is consolidation of the town of America? I am from Australia 🇦🇺
THE RAILROAD PARRALLELING US 56 HIGHWAY DODGE CITY TO BOISE CITY OKLAHOMA WAS ORIGINALLY AT&SF , NOW THE CIMMARON VALLEY RR. THE MOST NORTHWESTERN EXTENSION OF THE FORMER MKT RR( MISSOURI KANSAS &TEXAS) CONNECTED AT KEYES OKLAHOMA . THE SANTA FE LINE ALSO WENT WEST OF BOISE OKLAHOMA TO CLAYTON NM FOR AN CONNECTION TO THE FORMER FORT WORTH AND DENVER RR!
I like your channel and your style but do you have to say you know in what o every sentence? Is so I have to watch a maximum of one at a time because they are very disturbing and sometimes I unfortunately don't even have the energy to finish the episode........
I can imagine all the buffalo that roamed those plains and the Indians that pursued them but those days are long gone. One truth is certain though...empires rise and fall. 🪶🌎🦬🐎🏹
Here's my entire No Man's Land playlist! ruclips.net/p/PL4jqwLUrhjNSuLP__mQe66FDwHyuWmLBK
I am a 67 year old Edmond, OK native. My father's family homesteaded in Blaine County in 1890. My mother's family settled in the Shawnee area, although my grandfather moved here in the 1920's from Colorado. All that being said, while I have been to most areas of the state, I have yr to visit the panhandle. Thank you for sharing a drive I would like to take.
Thank you! It’s definitely a unique part of the state!
Skyscrapers of the plains. They really are😊
Although our family took part in the Oklahoma Land Rush and have pictures of it, most of us moved to Texas before the 1920's. Thank you for this series you have been doing about Oklahoma.
Thank you! So interesting- more to come!
Unity was a school and that was the gym, the classrooms burned down years ago.
Thanks for the info!
It appears that nature is reclaiming many of the landmarks that represent the Dust Bowl era. I certainly hope that what happened there is never forgotten. As with most videos recorded in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma, it's obvious that farming is still a vibrant part of the economy, which means people will still populate the area to some extent. Thanks for sharing!
For sure! Definitely work still being done out there - hopefully it can continue to survive!
this is the first county I think you explored that I have driven all over, too, and seen because of the job I had down there. There was an old house you showed at the beginning of this and i think I have been there, or to one like it, and walked around inside of it. I said to myself if I had a bunch of money that house would be great to have rebuilt exactly as it is now. would be the perfect size to me and out in the middle of nowhere.
I remember hearing of Caroline Henderson - how cool that you found her actual house!!! Love Yarbrough's football field....small town, rural living must be the best. As always, your drone shots and imagery of the wide open spaces are breathtaking, they never get old. Thank you for another mentally and visually stimulating video!
Thank you 😊 It was really great to find her house and to connect the stories with where she lived it!
I dearly love the wide open prairie!🤩
The Oklahoma panhandle is awesome! Beautiful, wide open spaces! Nothing can compare to the freedom we feel in far western Okkahoma and Kansas.
Couldn't agree more!
Really good video. Extremely informative (not kidding). Last of the summer here, then it starts turning a lot cooler. Be good, be safe !!
Great to hear! 😊
I have been to Yarbrough
Love wide open spaces, they are disappearing all too quickly. Glad you're finding beautiful places. Would you have your subscribers check, I've discovered on several of the RUclips channels I am no longer a subscriber and my likes disappeared as well. I realize this is detrimental to your monetization. I have no clue why this happens as I watch and re-watch the videos. Hopefully you can get this fixed. I enjoy your videos! Stay safe and GOD bless
That’s very strange - I’m not sure what that is but I’ll ask some others. The channel has been doing well lately so I’m thankful for that and your support!
I know the Henderson name! That lady was amazing!
Very cool find!
I found Yarbrough School on Google maps. It's really large and nice looking. It must take care of the whole county. Kuhn Cemetery has 10 graves listed on Find a Grave. What a challenge Caroline Henderson and her husband must have had! Can't imagine living out there at that time. Really nice that you found her homestead. I guess she and her husband had a daughter who became a doctor.
Awesome info thanks so much for that!
I could never live anywhere without trees. I bought my land because the house was situated in all the old trees. It's not like now where they clear the land and build the house and then plant the trees.😊
It’s definitely not for everyone!
Thank you for the videos. I take it that you love being out in the middle of nowhere. Me too!
You probably don’t have to worry about snakes being in the high grass, but the chiggers would be my main concern. Just mix up a spray bottle with water and lavender oil. Spray on yourself. Voila! No chiggers. Guaranteed.
There is a wonderful peace when you’re out there all by yourself and it’s just the wind blowing through the plains. Very addicting!
Retired trucker. I've watched 54 explode in traffic!
Definitely was busy!
I lived Guymon from 1983-1986. I hauled cattle for a liviing. I hauled cattle in and out of the auction in Texoma every week.
Elkhart was my home town. We ranched and farmed south of there.
Love it! I plan to take a trip like that if I can talk my wife into it. Thank you
leave her him then
There is some killer camping just North of Elkhart in the Cimarron National Grasslands.
A great book regarding the Dust Bowl days is ‘The Worst Hard Time’. The book covers the OK panhandle extensively. A great book that reminds us we live in easy times compared to our ancestors.
Englewood, could have been through KS.
Interesting place the pan handle. Enjoyed the drone shots a lot. Are you going to roll thru Hooker? Rode through 4 or 5 years ago on the Hawg. They had an old cop car parked with a dummy in it to slow folks down I suspect. It got my attention
Yes Hooker will be in part 3! They have a good sense of humor about their town name 🤣
The look Caroline gave him was....you brought me out HERE?
😂😂😂
That's where them 2 women were just found. Buried in a freezer. Crazy story.
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I do generally
In the original times
Family did bury in their property or near town
My ancestors are on some one property in lake city and Harper
At least the parents.
They don’t move them unless to far gone etc.
Find a grave is trying to get them online plus the cemetery etc. on the old ones.
Would be interesting the names and the dates on those tombstones
Find a grave website has that info I believe!
Love Texas ❤️. Southern West Coast Canadian here. Victoria BC Canada. Texas County Mountie, eh !! y'all . Love your videos. It's all about me . Camera on me. Watch your vids all the time, dude.
Awesome! Thank you!
You were on 95 and Road L. I believe that is where the missing Kansas mom’s were found.
I was very curious as to where that was. Thanks for the info!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy actually that was initial crime scene. They were found severs miles away. Very sad and tragic story.
Re-watching...THAT's a T-shirt idea: "Skyscrapers of the Plains"!!
Nice! I'm gonna suggest that to Mimi tomorrow :)
@TravelwithaWiseguy Yay - my fingers are crossed!!! I'd definitely buy one (those t-shirts are great quality), and a coffee mug. 🎉
I think the building at Unity was the Gym. The school itself is gone. Four Corners was basically a just a gas station and food when I grew up a few miles from there before the 80's.
Thanks for the info!
The story I know, or at least I think I know, is that all of the towns along 54 are exactly 10 miles apart because of the railroad
They’re definitely spaced out for that purpose!
I live in goodwell literally down the street from the museum!!!!
Cool place 😎
I like your videos so much!! The grasshopper brought back memories from 1990s with my 4 babies. My husband, our 4 little ones were going for a ride when our 5 year old son asked what those little hairs were on the grasshoppers head. We told him it was his antennas. After a few quiet seconds, he said "poor grasshopper, I bet his TV is really messed up". A gem from my Baby. 😂 😂. Thank you so much from this 82+ year old. ❤️
That is awesome! Thank you very much 😊
I lived in guymon Oklahoma in 2016 yeah it had a few basic things Walmart Dollar general you know all the usual stuff but from guymon over man talking about a desolate piece of land everything from hooker too liberal, but Texas county all the way to the Colorado New Mexico area he really got to do some homework to find the good history around there
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Im not 100% sure that yarbrough is an actual town at least not now, I havent researched it but it might have been a consolidation of a couple schools. I think its really cool that the football field survived as they havent played since 2005
Thanks for the info!
Another great video. Thank you. What time of year was this recorded ?
This was filmed in August - thank you!
WOW! This is almost as desolate as your highway 50 series! But even then, there is so much history. And even mystic with all the information that is missing. Cosmos Cemetery? Maybe the burial place of intergalactic travels who died during the westward migration of soace travel type? Might of been good that you didn't walk the cemeteries!
Opps! My imagination is running away again.
Haha you’re right I’m glad I didn’t mess up something within the universe at Cosmos! 😂
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Just as long as you didn't hear the musical tones from "Close Encounters of the Third Kind"! Maybe you should carry some kind of music tone maker just in case.
I live east of Guymon and we have a old schoolhouse on our property. We live near Adams OK and Optima Dam an unincorporated town. It’s a really interesting town to look through. I would be interested to see you come this way!
Stayed tuned 👀 😊
Nice! Looking forward to the video! Hooker is an interesting town. Don’t forget to stop by The Chamber of Commerce if you have time. There is a book people sign in from around the world.
Hiway 54 is a major road,traveling it many times. Too bad that so many places are basically abandoned ,except for a few that stay there to farm. Beautiful country I think. Thanks. 😊
Hazza for old school maps :D
Love the old maps 😊
Man, times gotta be tough out there, not a 'go round anywhere.
No wonder people left.
And you thought it was the dustbowl.....
Ha! 😂
We watched this video this morning and it was quite interesting. That territory is amazing in the history and how anyone could survive living there. You had to be tough for sure. Looking forward to the next one. Good work on the history.
I agree. I’m amazed at what they went through to make it!
Love the wide open spaces and the sparsely populated aras. Nice job coach.
Yes! Thank you! 😊
You missed the best part by not spending a night star gazing at Black Mesa State Park, i did enjoy the video
I actually had a great night of star gazing when I stayed near Black Mesa in a previous video! My camera doesn’t pick up the stars very well unfortunately.
When history gets lost or hidden by the years past, its hard to ensure that the stories live on. What a cool trip down the backroads.
Thank you! Agreed 100%
Another great series started. Looking forward to the next part. Did see the no man's land one and that was cool to. The only thing I know about the panhandle is it used to be apart of Texas at one time. 😊
Thank you! I definitely enjoy this area as well!
I’m a Texhoma native cool you came by
Nice town you have there!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy thanks comeback anytime
Be cool to see you explore Callaway County Missouri
Hopefully someday!
Unity looks like it might be a township maintenance building/shed
It used to be a school and what you see was the gymnasium, the classroom part burned down years ago.
Thanks!
Hey Coach. Drone was good looking out. Caroline Henderson epitomized the term primary source research in her writings. The house has a calm and slightly spooky shadow it doth cast.Walk on Mr, .......keep on T.C.B.
Thanks! Yeah such an interesting opportunity to see where she wrote all those stories!
You mentioned in the beginning of this video, highway 54. Back in the early years of the 1970s my family (dad stayed home) and I took highway 54 through Oklahoma heading for the Southwest and made it to Tucson Az. Boy howdy, that was a trip. We had a station wagon and pulled a small camper trailer (the bottom was metal and you pulled out some canvas for the top) and that's where we slept. We called home once and told Dad where we were and he couldn't believe that we had traveled so far away. Thank you for the memories and for the trip in No Man's Land. I wonder how it got that name? Happy trails to you and God bless.
It was a geographical left behind. It wasn't a part of any state until Oklahoma became a territory and was tacked on. Even now it is forgotten about, as a kid, I remember the school maps showing the panhandle detached and placed at the bottom of the map.
@@allenatkins2263 Thank you for your information. God bless.
Love your videos;love the USA🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸
Yes thank you!!
I go to Colorado this way, I don't trust Kansas any more.
GREAT EAGLE EYE 👁 FROM THE SKY 😊
Thanks so much!!
In 2002, I went to Guymon for a sister-city exchange festival. (I worked in Alabama where the other sister city was.) You don't end up there by accident! My coworker and I arrived in town and there was nobody. Totally deserted. Found out that everyone in town was attending the local high school football game.
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Well that four corners is just bizarre Because it looks like it was set up in the last 20 to 30 years And it just never took off? When nothing else survives it looks like farming always makes it through! Now that Eva is really interesting and I am going to watch if I can the documentary.
In the 70's there was a roadside zoo behind the grocery/cafe. Stopped there one morning to use payphone a was surprised by the roar of a lion! There were several other exotic animal I found out later. The cafe and gas station was in operation in the mid 70s but I wouldn't say they were prosperous.
@@kevinstewart3321 strange sounds like they made a roadside zoo Kevin? I suspect those never aged well?
It seems that 1 in 10 small towns is still thriving the rest are in decline or have ceased - it’s almost like there is consolidation of the town of America?
I am from Australia 🇦🇺
Another great video. Thanks hoss.
Glad you enjoyed it!
THE RAILROAD PARRALLELING US 56 HIGHWAY DODGE CITY TO BOISE CITY OKLAHOMA WAS ORIGINALLY AT&SF , NOW THE CIMMARON VALLEY RR.
THE MOST NORTHWESTERN EXTENSION OF THE FORMER MKT RR( MISSOURI KANSAS &TEXAS) CONNECTED AT KEYES OKLAHOMA .
THE SANTA FE LINE ALSO WENT WEST OF BOISE OKLAHOMA TO CLAYTON NM FOR AN CONNECTION TO THE FORMER FORT WORTH AND DENVER RR!
Love this info - keep it coming!
Comment for the algorithm, or maybe Al Gore rhythm
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Coffee and Coach travels ...
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did you stay in elkhart?
No I stayed in Guymon that weekend
I like your channel and your style but do you have to say you know in what o every sentence? Is so I have to watch a maximum of one at a time because they are very disturbing and sometimes I unfortunately don't even have the energy to finish the episode........
I can imagine all the buffalo that roamed those plains and the Indians that pursued them but those days are long gone. One truth is certain though...empires rise and fall. 🪶🌎🦬🐎🏹
When I was a kid, they were widening Highway 54 and unearthed a Sharps rifle.