What to see in America . 314 What to See in America Paradise, as Oklahoma is popularly called, into a flourish-ing agricultural and cattle-breeding district has since beenphenomenal. In 1907 it became a state. The first legis-lature met at Guthrie, but the capital was soon afterwardestablished at Oklahoma City. The latter is the largestplace in the state. Not far away is Shawnee with its Kick-apoo bark lodges. Near the southern boundary of the state is the PiattNational Park, which contains many sulphur and other springsthat have medicinal properties. The highest spot in Okla-homa is at the fa
What to see in America . 314 What to See in America Paradise, as Oklahoma is popularly called, into a flourish-ing agricultural and cattle-breeding district has since beenphenomenal. In 1907 it became a state. The first legis-lature met at Guthrie, but the capital was soon afterwardestablished at Oklahoma City. The latter is the largestplace in the state. Not far away is Shawnee with its Kick-apoo bark lodges. Near the southern boundary of the state is the PiattNational Park, which contains many sulphur and other springsthat have medicinal properties. The highest spot in Okla-homa is at the far western boundary line, 4750 feet. Thename of the state is Cherokee for the Home of the Granite Bowlders on Mt. Scott. Among the Great Level Fields XXXVI Kansas The dwellers on the Atlantic coast are apt to think of Kansasas being in the far West. Really it is just halfway betweenthe Atlantic and Pacific, and it is also just halfway betweenthe northern and southern boundaries of our country, so thatit is the most central state in the Union. It measures morethan four hundred miles east and west and is half that gives it an area greater than the combined areas ofthe two states of Ohio and Kentucky. It is on the GreatPlains that sweep gently upward to the foothills of theRocky Mountains. In its eastern part the rainfall is ample,so that nearly all the land is farmed, but as you go fartherwest the climate becomes increasingly arid, and farms giveway to scattered cattle ranches, except where irrigation ispracticable. Streams and groves of trees are numerous inthe eastern part, but the watercourses in the western partare fewer and smaller, and many of them are dry in
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