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The Texas Panhandle is a region of the U.S. state of Texas consisting of the northernmost 26 counties in the state. The panhandle is a rectangular area bordered by the state of New Mexico to the west and the state of Oklahoma to the north and east. The southern border of Swisher County is considered to be the southern boundary of the region. Its land area is 66,883.58 km² (25,823.9 sq mi), or nearly 10 percent of the state's total. There is an additional 162.53 km² (62.75 sq mi) of water area. Its population as of the 2000 census was 402,862 residents, or 1.932 percent of the state's population.
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This much is plain: the Texas Panhandle is part of the High Plains. But what, exactly, is the Texas Panhandle? Folks have debated the issue for years. Historian Frederick Rathjen says the Panhandle is the state’s 26 northernmost counties. Others, such as author A. C. Greene, deem it rectangular, the longer shape dictated by the New Mexico state line. To UT geographer Terry Jordan, the Caprock is the eastern border, which makes a sort of reverse Nevada shape.
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The Texas Panhandle is so named because it protrudes at the top of the state, much like the handle of a pot or pan. Home to the northernmost counties in Texas, the landscape on the Panhandle is dominated by agriculture and petroleum. Visitors to this area of Texas have a variety of experiences waiting to be discovered, such as Adobe Walls, an ancient Spanish trading post that is today a contemporary historical attraction. A full one quarter of the Panhandle is known as the Llano Estacado, which represents one of the largest expanses of flat land in the world. The town of Lubbock can be found on the Llano Estacado, and is well known locally as the birthplace of early rock and roller Buddy Holly. The Lake Meredith National Recreation Area near Amarillo is another favored destination on the Panhandle, popular with anglers and campers seeking to enjoy some of the boundless Texas outdoors.
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The present study, involving sixty-eight interviews in seventeen communities across the Texas Panhandle, indicates that the northern and southern portions of the Panhandle differ both culturally and linguistically as a result of the different cultural groups which settled the Panhandle. The speech of the Texas Panhandle is mostly South Midland with a North Midland influence, particularly in the northern part of the Panhandle where mostly wheat farmers from the Midwest settled. The southern Panhandle, particularly the southeastern portion where cotton was first produced in the Panhandle, has a higher incidence of Lower Southern features than does the northern Panhandle.
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Romancing the Texas Panhandle: An Affair to Remember is published by The Donning Company Publishers of Virginia Beach, Virginia, the largest specialty pictorial history publisher in the United States. This publication becomes the newest book in Donning’s “Portrait of America” series.
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Studer played an instrumental role in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Society and the establishment and development of the Society’s Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, the first state museum in Texas. In 1931, two years before the museum first opened to the public, Studer signed over his scientific leases to the society and its fledgling museum in exchange for a non-salaried appointment as the museum’s Director of Archaeology and Paleontology. This volunteer post gave him a headquarters and solidified his control of Panhandle archeology and paleontology for the next two decades. The museum was closely connected to West Texas State Teachers College (West Texas A&M University today) and it was Studer’s influence that led the college to create a teaching position in paleontology and anthropology in 1934.
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