Download or read book Ponca City and Kay County Boom Towns written by Clyda R. Franks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man's enduring search for quick riches and hidden wealth led directly to the rush for "black gold" in the Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century. By 1907, when the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory joined to become the state of Oklahoma, the era of the big-money oil industry had been launched. During the first four decades of the twentieth century, Oklahoma produced four-billion barrels of crude valued at over $5 billion-more value than all minerals extracted from California or Colorado. This massive rush also created a new generation of boom towns, attracting a myriad of honest merchants, gamblers, workers, thieves, millionaires and prostitutes who competed side-by-side for their share of the riches. From this turmoil came both thriving communities and ghost towns. Ponca City and Kay County Boom Towns captures that exciting era in vintage photographs and anecdotes of the brothels and burning oil fields, the lawmen and outlaws, and the businesses and workers who made up these boom towns.

Download or read book Ponca City and Kay County Boom Towns written by Clyda Franks and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2002-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Man's enduring search for quick riches and hidden wealth led directly to the rush for "black gold" in the Indian Territory at the turn of the twentieth century. By 1907, when the Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory joined to become the state of Oklahoma, the era of the big-money oil industry had been launched. During the first four decades of the twentieth century, Oklahoma produced four-billion barrels of crude valued at over $5 billion-more value than all minerals extracted from California or Colorado. This massive rush also created a new generation of boom towns, attracting a myriad of honest merchants, gamblers, workers, thieves, millionaires and prostitutes who competed side-by-side for their share of the riches. From this turmoil came both thriving communities and ghost towns. Ponca City and Kay County Boom Towns captures that exciting era in vintage photographs and anecdotes of the brothels and burning oil fields, the lawmen and outlaws, and the businesses and workers who made up these boom towns.

Download or read book Towns Without Houses written by Darlene Platt and published by Bold Ideas Publishing. This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ponca City, located in northcentral Oklahoma in the east end of the historical Cherokee Outlet, was founded on September 16, 1893 during the Cherokee Strip land run. Early in the twentieth century E.W. Marland came to Oklahoma. His vision was not for farming but oil. He meant to find it and sell it in the east. Later, he took it a step further and refined it on the spot shipping the products all over the world through his company Marland Oil, which eventually became Conoco-Phillips in 2002. Marland wound up employing the unemployed who were then fed by the area farmers. The wealth he was able to create enriched the entire area, bringing the railroad, roads, services jobs and all the businesses that communities require. Eight days after the Cherokee Strip land run, Frank H. Greene wrote a letter to a friend back east. Here is part of what he told his friend about Ponca (later renamed Ponca City): "Would like to see you spinning over (our) streets and sidewalks with your whirly gig wheels. There isn't one in town but then down here we have towns without houses, streets, or anything but people. Just think of three thousand people coming together in the center of nowhere. Coming from all directions by all sorts of conveyances and afoot, most all in a hurry and not one with a double set of underclothing, a sheet of paper or a pine box to sit on. Some with tents, many with absolutely nothing but themselves, let all these come together and squat down for four days and you have Ponca." In this history book, you will learn about the Native American tribes that have resided in and do currently reside in Kay County Oklahoma, and you will learn about the towns and ghost towns of the area. This book is perhaps the most comprehensive book on the history of Kay County Oklahoma ever written, and it is well-documented with 35 pages of end notes and lots of pictures.

Download or read book Kay County s Historic Architecture written by Bret A. Carter and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial depiction of civic buildings in Kay County, Okla. The collection focuses on public buildings and is divided into decades beginning with the 1910's and ending with the 1950's.

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Download or read book Ghost Towns of Oklahoma written by John Wesley Morris and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists 130 ghost towns in alphabetical order and includes descriptions of each.

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Download or read book Boomtowns of the West written by Bobbie Kalman and published by New York ; Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ont. : Crabtree Pub.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excitement of a gold rush, a strong coal deposit, or the arrival of a railroad could turn a sleepy little village into a boomtown overnight! Children will learn about real "Old West" boomtowns and the businesses, justice systems, and entertainment in these bustling cities that often ended up as ghost towns.