The Real Reason Oklahoma has a Panhandle

Most American's don't know the real reason as to why Oklahoma has a panhandle. One of the strangest borders in the United States actually has an insanely fascinating history..

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[generalporkchop]

The Comanches lived in harmony with NO ONE.

[jKLa]

This video contains serious inaccuracies. The Missouri compromise of 1820 did NOT make slavery illegal north of the 36'th parallel as you inaccurately state and which your map falsely shows. Instead the Missouri compromise only made slavery illegal in new states from the remaining lands of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36'th parallel except for Missouri, but still admitted Missouri as a Slave state despite being north of the line in exchange for admitting the free soil state of Maine. Please correct this grave historical error ASAP!

[kgm]

The panhandle of Oklahoma wasn’t opened for settlement until 1891. The 1889 land run took place near present day Guthrie, OK that is approximately 20 miles North of current day Oklahoma City.

[simritnam]

@00:30, " lived in harmony with nature"
This trash needs to stop

[elenawester]

Oklahoma’s panhandle has 3 counties: Cimarron, Texas, and Beaver. The largest town in the region is Guymon, which is the county seat of Texas County.

[tomcranks]

This is inaccurate as to the Indians "living in harmony." Historically, the Apache dominated the Comanche. With the advent of horses from the Spanish, the Comanche flourished and turned the table on everyone and became deadly warriors that dominated the plains throughout Texas into Southwestern Kansas. Indian warfare throughout history may be characterized by savage brutality, mutilation and slavery.

[richardkut]

One of those tribes were Stone Cold Killers. Go back to history kid.

[theman]

0:29 I doubt the buffalo thought the Indians were living peacefully beside them.

[theesotaricitalian]

The Comanche never lived in harmony they were brutal warriors

[treborretsnom]

My 2X great-grandfather, was a Methodist rider in the panhandle and Kansas, he was ordained in Dodge City KS. Lived in a sod home as well

[davehughesfarm]

My brother in law has some land there...Its no trees, red bad dusty dirt and if dont rain you can forget the wheat.

[icewaterslim]

Those 3 Plains tribes weren't exactly in harmony with the Apache, Tonkowa or much of anyone else caught on their turf . The Quahadi Comanche held onto the Blanco and Palo Duro Canyon area of the Texas Panhandle as a stronghold with the remainder of the Texas Panhandle as their hunting ground right up until after the Civil War when the Buffalo Hunters invaded and Ranald "Bad Hand" Mackenzie led a series of Cavalry Expeditions through the network of Canyons to do what the Spanish and Texas Rangers never could do. Timed after the hunts decimated the Buffalo herds and those three allied nations of peoples lost the "Battle of Adobe Walls" with the hunters, "MacKenzies Raiders" stole the Quahadi's horses en masse . . . Comanche style . . . and got them to acquiesce to the Reservation to make the Texas panhandle one of the very last regions of North America settled by Whites. Plains Natives weren't exactly helpless or hospitable to trespassers but a series of Smallpox epidemics had been deadly enough among the dominant Comanche to make them more vulnerable than ever before..

[SGPARKER]

In 1951 I was born in Edmond, OKs Hospital which was on the top floor above the town Movie Theater. I often wonder what movie was showing on my birthday.

[daqcraig]

Jim Lane was the man you speak of. The man whose picture you have in the video is James Henry Lane. The man you have pictured was a Kansas Senator and military officer who formed and lead the Jayhawker Redlegs into raids in Missouri during the Civil War. Capt William Quantrill's men rode into Lawrence Kansas to arrest Lane but he hid in a nearby cornfield or creek. This led to the Lawrence Massacre. My 2X grandmothers brother, Otho Offutt was one of Quantrills men and was there. James Henry Lane committed suicide on July 11, 1865.

[Briannorton]

The Organic Act of 1890 opened up the panhandle to legal settlement but was not part of any land run. The 3 counties (Beaver, Texas, Cimmaron) have a rich history but were not settled by land run.

[joeo]

WHAT? The land run was over 100miles from there around the town of Stillwater (OSU).

[lv]

Dude Arkansas City Kansas is not north of the panhandle. It’s north of Ponca City, near TULSA. Use an actual map next time 😂

[HerveMendell]

Yes I've heard of Beaver City, its a brothel in Nevada.

[mattmackewich]

Best vacation I took with my kids was here. Black Mesa State Park & Tri-state marker is great.

[waltbusch]

has anyone commented that the picture of james lane used is senator james lane of kansas who died in 1866 so estaglishing homestead in 1880 probably was not possible