Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Elmer hunt of Binger, Okla. wearing a pair of chaps with "Hinton, Okla.," on them, rides his mule, Mary, into Guymon of Pioneer Days celebration."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Goodwill Tour clown Ed Birchall, better-known as Ho Ho, greets youngsters in Alva."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Work like Bobby Patterson, Bartlesville, is doing here with a cutting torch in salvage operations on the old Katy line in the Panhandle was suspended Wednesday as hopes of reviving the railroad rose again."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Don Cortez... they love it, hate it."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Katy Railroad demolition operations such as this along the abandoned railroad west of Eva in the Panhandle have ceased while the State Railroad Maintenance Authority negotiates for purchase of the line and considers $10 million in revenue bonds. Salvage project foreman Eugene Vogele, Shidler, left, is supervising the work of Bobby Patterson, Bartlesville. They are employees of L. B. Foster & Co. of Houston, and were told to "hold up" on their work of removing tracks, for the time being."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Dust storm descends on the western Oklahoma town of Hooker in 1937."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Students in the new branch will be getting on site experience, like Marshal Cole, right, in breaking rock, mixing mortar and laying stone."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "A studen in the Texhoma Building & Trades School's stone masonary class puts trowel to mortar, above, as carl Thurlow, right, school president, and Dale Cole, Instructor at the new Edmond branch."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Title of Miss Oklahoma Teen-ager is held by Debbie Vestal, 17, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Vestal, Guymon."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Modern day fun comes in the form of an old time wagon train for young Curtis Cash as he rides his grandfather's mule on trek to Guymon."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "Mules pulling Mr. and Mrs. Coy Palmer's wagon halt on a Guymon street for a brief rest after the journey for Spearman, Tex. to the Oklahoma Panhandle city for Pioneer Days festivities."

Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "One wagon of the mule train from Spearman, Tex. comes clomping down a brick covered Guymon street after a windy trek to the Oklahoma Panhandle to participate in Pioneer Days of No Man's Land."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "35,000 in Guymon for Pioneer Day parade."