Volume 1 , Issue 9

NW Okie's Journey

September 30, 1999 -- "Odds & Ends of NW Oklahoma Towns with (Information from Oklahoma Historical Library).

FREEDOM - You've heard me talk of Freedom before and how it was born in 1918 as a result of the Waynoka-Buffalo Railroad up the Cimarron Valley. If it hadn't been for the courageous pioneers (W. W. Vincent and A. T. Walker) that undertook construction of the Railroad with their own resources and later sold to Santa Fe Railroad when work progressed as far as Freedom, Freedom may never have been born.

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Rummaging Through Time

It was Thursday, September 23, 1999, that NW Okie wrote about her "Rummaging Through Time (Penny Postcards of Life)."

"Sometimes a person has to go back, really back to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them before they can go forward." -- Paule Marshall

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A Prairie of Dreams

NW Okie wrote this back in September 2, 1999, "A Prairie of Dreams (Castles of NW Oklahoma)."

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it." - William Arthur Ward. Another saying I like is, "If you build your prairie of dreams (your Castle on the Hill), they will come!"

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Pioneer Prairie Dreamers, Part II

NW Okie wrote this in September 9, 1999, "Pioneer Prairie Dreamers, Part II (History of Runnymede Arms)."

Looking back at the history of our Oklahoma pioneers I am finding that the dreams of the neighboring states to the north and all around us have played a significant and historical roll in the northwestern counties of Oklahoma.

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