Volume 10 , Issue 4

Duchess Corner

As Sunrise begins, Sunday, January 27, 2008, the clouds begin to gather for another bout of Winter storms & snow in the San Juans.

This week was a few degrees warmer than last week and temperatures reached a few degrees above the freezing mark (32F). Thursday we had another 3 to 4 inches of snow, but sunshine returned for the rest of the week. The clouds didn't start rolling in until Sunday for another windy blast of snow in the San Juans, expected this evening.

You can view some scenes from our SW Colorado Weather Cam that refreshes every 10 minutes. We have also set up another viewing site at NW OkieLegacy.

Oklahoma History & Heritage...
From reviewing and researching our Oklahoma heritage, we have noticed how the newspapers of early Oklahoma & Indian Territory began mostly with Democratic owners and influence. By 1914 & 1916 the newspapers appeared to have changed ownership, influence to the republican party as the northwestern parts of Oklahoma were experiencing an over-flow of republicans.

Opening of Unassigned Lands To Settlement...
Next weekend we shall bring you some information about "The Oklahoma Question In Congress" -- the bill for the opening of the Unassigned Lands to settlement, introduced at the beginning of the first session of the 49th Congress. We will find that the opposition to this measure was strongly entrenched, but did not make much headway.

The opposition to the opening of the vacant public lands of Oklahoma came from two sources: the cattlemen who had large herds of stock in the territory and were loath to give up their ranges; and the Indians, who naturally regarded the proposed change as the beginning of an invasion which would ultimately result in changing the old order whereas they preferred to live on in their own way and to cling to their own institutions.
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