April Snowflakes Blows In Oklahoma
We hear that the heartlands of Oklahoma and parts of Texas are experiencing a bit of a cold front this weekend. Several have mentioned that it snowed flakes of blowing white stuff in Oklahoma on Good Friday with temperatures reaching 34 degrees for the highs -- 21 degrees for the lows in the northwest corner of Oklahoma with no accumulations as of this writing. By Saturday it had cleared, but was chilly. Waynoka History Book
I was reading in the Waynoka - Woods County Enterprise this week and came across this information concerning the "Waynoka History Book." The Cherokee Outlet
The Cherokee Outlet was also known as the Cherokee Strip. It was formed by the US government to give the Cherokee Indians of Eastern Oklahoma a path or "outlet" to hunting lands in the West. A group of cattlemen known as "The Cherokee Strip Livestock Association" finally leased the outlet for a period of years. Oklahoma News Online
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