02103cam a2200289 4500 551437898 TxAuBib 20070807120000.0 760416s1937||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 38000241 (OCoLC)2117153 TxAuBib Rainey, Geo, b. 1866, (George.) No man's land : : The historic story of a landed orphan / by George Rainey. [Guthrie, Okla : Co-operative publishing co., 1937. 5 p. l., 245 p : front., illus. (incl. ports., maps, plan) ; 22 cm. An important history of the old Panhandle of Oklahoma. Rainey was postmaster of Enid for many years and was apparently a scholarly and serious historian of the Cherokee Strip and, in this book, what was once called "No Man's Land.". 20000216. La Salle stakes a claim; Events affecting no man's land; Uncle Sam loses land; From Spain to Mexico Early land grants; Texas Revolts; Texas Annexed; Fixing the boundaries; The surveys; First across no man's land; How early western Indians built their tepees; The buffalo; The Santa Fe trail; Old Fort Nichols; The era of the cattlemen; Charley Hitch tells a story; Robbers' Roost; Dave Pool; The squatters; Squatters' rights rules; Tascosa and Dodge City; Beaver City; Killing of Thompson and Bennett; Death of Billy Olive; Naming Sharp's Creek; Provisional government in Beaver City; Killing of Brusher and Clark; The strange disappearance of O.K. Rogers; Society in Beaver City; Prehistoric life in no man's land; Prehistoric Bison; Dinosaurs in no man's land; How four early settlers economized; Cimarron Territory; W.A. Sullivan; Tragedy at Wild Horse Lake; Under the law;. Frontier and pioneer life Oklahoma. Frontier and pioneer life. Southwest, New History. Oklahoma History. Oklahoma. Oklahoma. Panhandle Biographies. Oklahoma Panhandle (Okla) Biography.