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A strange fact about the Oklahoma Panhandle |
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Posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jul 7 01:23:15 2026 Originally part of Texas, from 1850 to 1890 it had no government. It was known as the Public Land Strip, and informally as No Man’s Land and the Cimarron Strip, and was not under the control of any state or territory. There were no courts, no law enforcement, and no government services at all. It not surprisingly became a haven for various fugitives. Some of the ranchers and farmers who occupied the sparsely populated area tried to form a territorial government but had no success. Congress finally made it part of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890. |
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Re: A strange fact about the Oklahoma Panhandle |
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Posted by Spider-Pig on Tue Jul 7 11:53:51 2026, in response to A strange fact about the Oklahoma Panhandle, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jul 7 01:23:15 2026. That doesn’t imply that it was truly a no man’s land, it still was under the jurisdiction of the federal government.In Cook v. United States, 138 U.S. 157 (1891), the Supreme Court upheld a murder conviction for a crime committed in the neutral strip. Congress appended it to the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, but the act took effect after the murder happened. The Court ruled that ex post facto didn’t apply because it didn’t change the applicable laws, only the trial forum. There is a place still extant within the continental United States where there may be impunity for crimes due to Constitutional strictures: The Yellowstone Zone of Death. |
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Re: A strange fact about the Oklahoma Panhandle |
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Wed Jul 8 01:04:07 2026, in response to A strange fact about the Oklahoma Panhandle, posted by Peter Rosa on Tue Jul 7 01:23:15 2026. Check out the Cimarron movies from 1931 and 1960 |
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