Woodward County

Ian D. Swart

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN: 9781439636718
• Edition: 0
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: North American History
• Index: History

The first settlement in what would become Woodward County was Camp Supply, a military post that had been established in 1868 during the Indian Wars on the American frontier. In 1887, a provisioning point for the post on the Southern Kansas Railway was created and named Woodward. It was not until six years later that the area known as the Cherokee Outlet would be opened to nonnative settlement. At high noon on September 16, 1893, thousands of hopeful settlers rushed into the territory to stake their claims in this new land. On a sunny day in 1907, William Jennings Bryan spoke to a crowd of 20,000 people in the county seat, urging the ratification of the new Oklahoma Constitution. During the late 20th century, Woodward County?s extensive deposits of oil led to a booming economy. In Woodward County, the lives of cowboys, lawyers, gunfighters, brothel madams, and everyday farmers intersect as a civilization rises from the open prairie.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• One - N COUNTY 1893–1906
• Two - BRAND NEW STATE 1907–1914
• Three - THE LAND WE BELONG TO IS GRAND 1915–1918
• Four - THE GOLDEN 1920S 1919–1931
• Five - HARD TIMES AND DIRT 1932–1939
• Six - THE WORLD AT WAR 1940–1946
• Seven - RAGE IN HEAVEN APRIL 1947
• Eight - PLENTY OF HEART, PLENTY OF HOPE 1948–1960
• Nine - PROGRESS 1961–2008
• Ten - FORGOTTEN PLACES TOWNS GONE BY THE WAYSIDE