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On the Web
- The Glinting Tour - Article describing a tour through southwest Oklahoma's Great Plains Country.
- Great Plains Technology Center - Courses and contacts, services, events, and general information. Frames page.
- Western Plains Library System - Library and service information, reading room, and contact information for individual libraries serviced in Custer, Dewey, Roger Mills and Washita counties.
- Hamm's Oasis - Hunt southwest Oklahoma for quail, dove, deer, pheasant, duck, chuckar, turkey, and varmints. Offers lodging, hunting, camping, picnicking and dining, bird watching.
- Sierra Club - Wichita Mountains Group - southwest Oklahoma area conservation issues, meeting and outing information, officers.
- Southwest Oklahoma Harley Owners' Group - Events, ride board, chapter officers, classifieds, membership, meeting and contact information.
- Southwest Oklahoma Genealogical Society - Objectives, membership, newsletter, free queries, tips and information, resources, meeting location and contact information. Located in Lawton, OK and covers the counties of Beckham, Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Custer, Grady, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa, Stephens and Tillman.
- Western Technology Center - Evening class schedule and links to individual campuses in Burns Flat, Weatherford and Sayre.
- Lutheran Ministries of Southwest Oklahoma - A partnership of churches working together to provide a caring network of Christian family and community services for Southwest Oklahoma. Associated with The Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (LCMS).
- Southwest Oklahoma Railroad Association - Modular HO scale railroad club with headquarters in Duncan, OK. News and information, meeting schedule and location, pictures, links and contact information.
Wikipedia Articles
- Green Country (Oklahoma) - Located in Northeast Oklahoma, Green Country is a heavily-wooded area of the state with a relatively high amount of rolling hills, mountains and foliage as opposed to Central and Western Oklahoma, which have geography similar to "the Great Plains" region of the United States. Average rainfall totals in Green Country are generally above 40 inches per year, making it considerably wetter and greener than most of the state.
- Powder River Country - The Powder River Country refers to an area of the Great Plains in northeastern Wyoming in the United States. The area is loosely defined between the Bighorn Mountains and the Black Hills, in the upper drainage areas of the Powder, Tongue, and Little Bighorn rivers.
- Southwestern Oklahoma - ... is a geographical name for the southwest portion of the state of Oklahoma, typically considered to be south of the Canadian River, extending eastward from the Texas border to a line roughly from Weatherford, to Anadarko, to Duncan. The region has an official designation created for tourism purposes, Great Plains Country.
- Prairie madness - Prairie madness is a term that describes an affliction that was common in the United States among white settlers of the Great Plains during the mid to late 1800s. The madness was a result of the extreme isolation experienced by former city dwellers and farmers more used to hilly and forested country.
- Chinook wind - Chinook winds, often just called chinooks, are a variety of Föhn winds pattern observed in the interior West of North America, where the Canadian Prairies and Great Plains end and the mountains begin. These wind patterns are named for the country of the Chinook Native Americans, which lies in the direction these winds were realized to originate from.