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The northernmost area of Texas is called the Panhandle. It is straight and narrow like the handle of a pan with the broader area of the state below it, like the bottom of a pan.
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The 1930s was tough time in the Texas and Oklahoma Panhandles. The entire country was mired in the Great Depression that followed the 1929 stock market collapse. Simultaneously, a prolonged drought (1931-1934) turned much of the Southern Plains into a “dust bowl” and sent many farming families to ruin (and to California). In response to the country’s woes, the Federal government under Franklin D. Roosevelt created an unprecedented series of relief programs known collectively as the New Deal. Because the main goal was to put people back to work, labor-intensive archeological and paleontological projects were seen as effective ways to do just that. To land such a project, a state or local institution, usually a university, had to sponsor and administer the work.
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A panhandle, as the name implies, is a long, usually narrow, tract of land appended to the main area of a state. Many such areas exist in the United States. West Virginia's panhandle extends northward between Pennsylvania and Ohio. Oklahoma's panhandle, a long strip about twenty-five miles wide, lies between Texas on the south and Colorado and Kansas on the north. The Texas panhandle, a large, nearly square area, includes the northern portion of the state.
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