Oklahoma, United States
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Great Plains Country is a region in southwestern Oklahoma.
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Rough and tumble country in western Oklahoma. Hiking, swimming, fishing, boating, camping.
Mountains and lake, with hiking and camping.
A monument to Temple and Louis Abernathy, ages 6 and 10, who crossed the country alone on horseback around the turn of the 21st century to DC and New York to meet Presidents Taft and Roosevelt and then once again to San Francisco.
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Altus is in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma and is a military town with the presence of Altus Air Force Base nearby. In the beginning, it served as a trading post for the Great Western Cattle Trail.
Anadarko is in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma.
Clinton is a city of 9,000 people (2010) in the Great Plains Country of Oklahoma. It was platted in like 1902, but what really seemed to make it bloom was when it became a service-oriented community towards Route 66 travel, with cafes, motels, and filling stations to accommodate travelers.
Duncan is in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma, known as the "Crepe Myrtle Capital of Oklahoma" and as the place of origin of the petrochemical giant Halliburton. This article also covers the nearby town of Marlow.
Elk City is in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma. It owes its existence to the railroad as well as to agriculture, oil extraction, and transportation services, being as it is on the busy interstate thoroughfare that is I-40.
Erick is a city of a thousand people (2019) in the Great Plains Country of Oklahoma, near the Texas border on the former US Route 66.
Hobart is a city of 3,400 people (2019) in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma. Hobart is primarily a farm town.
Lawton is in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma.
Mangum is a city of 3,000 people (2010) in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma.
Medicine Park is a town of 450 people (2019) in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma just north of the Fort Sill Military Reservation. Medicine Park is in Comanche County, in the Wichita Mountains near the entrance to the 60,000-acre Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge.
Sayre is a city of 4,400 people (2010) in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma. Its economy has been based on agriculture and the production of oil and gas.
Texola is a ghost town in the Great Plains Country of Oklahoma, situated at the Texas border as the westernmost settlement in Oklahoma.
Weatherford is in the Great Plains Country region of southwest Oklahoma.
Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge is in the Great Plains Country region of Oklahoma.
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