"In the heart of America's 'bread basket' a narrow, rectangular strip once called 'No Man's Land' bristles with Western historical drama - outlaws and vigilantes, blizzards and dust storms, wealth and poverty. So named because its 5,670 square miles were orphaned when Congress failed to assign the area to any administrative unit after the Compromise of 1850, this territory today comprises the Oklahoma Panhandle." Dust jacket.