The Fifties - Enid and the Cherokee Strip

This book offers a unique regional perspective on the fifties through an accumulation of human interest stories and comments about the people and events that impacted Enid and Oklahoma during this decade.

Enid, Oklahoma, 1952 - 1960. The downtown double square with its wide streets and picturesque store fronts, was the site of fabulous parades and bumper-to-bumper traffic. Virtually every modern need was available. The history of the area was rich in bravery, and the pioneer spirit still prevailed even though the number of original settlers was diminishing. The culture of the community was deeply rooted in old family values. This was a prosperous time as the wheat-covered countryside was dotted with cattle and producing oil wells.

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The Sixties - Expansion, Exploration and Polarization

Enid, Okahoma, 1961 - 1970. During these ten years, Enid expanded with both popultion and construction, while the region was alive with oil exploration. Nationwide, following the vision of its young president, America sought to land men on the moon, while at the same time facing contemptuous confrontations over the Vietnam War, race, and gender.

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Reflections From The Roadside (East Of Town) - A Quindecennial Chronology

Enid, Oklahoma, 1912 - 1923. The "Golden Age," during which time the area rose from obscurity to national prominence with a combination of a good commercial location, good luck in general, and great civic and industrial leaders. People of the day truly believed they lived in the best city of its size in the best county in the best state in the best nation in the world.

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Observations From The Station (South Of Town) - A Quindecennial Chronology

Enid, Oklahoma, 1927 - 1941. In 1926, Roger Babson, respected agricultural statistician and economist, commented that "Enid, Oklahoma, is the best business city in the world today. It is the gold spot of the nation." In the heart of the richest agricultural section of Oklahoma with an unlimited trade territory, Enid, the City Beautiful, was the leading wheat center of the state and was first rank in handling livestock, dairy products and poultry growing. It was the home of several refining companies processing petroleum products from nearby oile fields. The crash of the stock market, world-wide depression, and period of drouth and dust storms brought hard times to the region during the 1930s. It took the rumblings of war to restore the area to prosperity.

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A Decade Of Turmoil (Wars & Threats Of War) - A Ten Year Chronology

Enid, Oklahoma, 1942 - 1951. Following Pearl Harbor, the people of Enid and the nation united in the war effort. After the war, with the world clearly divided into two camps, the cold war began. The American people endured the "Red Scare" and supported the Marshall Plan, the breaking of the Berlin blockade, and the Korean Conflict, all designed to stop Communist aggression.

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The Cherokee Strip Of Oklahoma - A Hundred Yesteryears

The opening of the Cherokee Outlet, the greatest race of all time, is generally perceived as a dust-blurred montage of careening vehicles, high-spirited horses and excited home seekers racing into a new land, claiming homesteads. A century later, those pioneers are gone and buried, yet they speak to us still. God has blessed us with the gift of memory and has made us custodians of the perspectives of the past as well as the realities of the present which link and bind the generations each to the next with a unifying thread that transcends time.

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