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Original No Man’s Land

Texas County
Location: on US-54 at Texas border near Texhoma
Topics: Government; Settlement Patterns; Territorial Period, 1861–1907; Westward Expansion, 1803–1861

Following admission to the Union in 1846, the state of Texas, as a slave state, ceded the "Public Land Strip" to the United States to comply with the Missouri Compromise of 1850, which forbade slavery north of 36° 30'. The area remained unorganized but was promoted as Cimarron Territory in the 1880s with some attempts to establish a government. No Man's Land became part of Oklahoma Territory on May 2, 1890.

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