Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Janie Brooks, camping advisor for the Oklahoma County Girl Scout council and guiding light behind the camp at Binger."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "The Indian girl with the clear, beautiful English, who guides visitors at "Indian City" on the midway at the Southwest American exposition, hopes to learn to speak one or more Indian language some day."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "Fifty-four years ago the site of a town later to be known as Hinton looked like "a pretty good location" to a young banker from Kansas named Harrison W. Miller."

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "It's a gray day for newlyweds Mr. and Mrs. Donna Smith of Anadarko, who got a full day "on the town" in Oklahoma City after being chosen as "Cinerama Couple" in a statewide contest."

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "Sunday is the 50th anniversary of St. John's Lutheran church in Hinton."

Photograph of native grass, Claude Gilbert farm. Native grass pasture seeded in 1952. Bluestem on the right and Indian grass on the left. These grasses have not been grazed since they were seeded. Soil Conservation Service program started on this farm in 1952. OK-401-11.

Photograph of weeping lovegrass. Claude Gilbert in a field of weeping lovegrass. That was moved once this year, making 1 ½ tons of hay per acre. Mowed twice in 1955, it yielded 100 pounds of seed per acre which was sold for $0.65 per pound. Gilbert fertilizes his weeping lovegrass with 100 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre each spring. Soil Conservation Service program started on this farm in 1952. OK-401-9.

Photograph of stubble mulching. Stubble mulching on wheat land. Guy Schroder is shown with the wheat drill he uses on stubble mulched land. It is a 16-foot, 10-inch Van Brundt drill that sows a strip 13 feet and 4 inches wide. It has 10 inch row spacings and 14 inch disc openers. Schroder is a cooperator with the District and started the Soil Conservation Service program on this farm in 1950.

Photograph of stubble mulching on wheat land. Guy Schroder, left, a cooperator with the North Caddo District, and Harold Slaton, Soil Conservation Service [SCS], Conservation Aid, are examining a wheat drill used to sow wheat on stubble-mulched land (16 feet, 10 inches Van Brunt model). Schroder began cooperating with the SCS in 1950 in planning a soil conservation program for his farm.

Photograph used for a story in the Oklahoma Times newspaper. Caption: "REV. HENRY HART TYLER, "I don't think reducing horsepower is the answer-it lies with the individual."

Photograph of Weeping Lovegrass. Claude Gilbert stands by a stack of weeping lovegrass hay. 700 bales cut this year off a 14 acre field. Yield is 1 1/2 tons per acre. Gilbert fertilizer his weeping lovegrass with 100 pounds of a 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre in the spring of each year. A Soil Conservation Service program started on this farm in 1952. Gilbert is sold on weeping lovegrass and has needed 80 acres of his eroded cropland to lovegrass. OK-401-8.

Photograph of weeping lovegrass. Weeping lovegrass pasture on Claude Gilbert farm as seeded in the spring of 1955. Gilbert sold the weeping lovegrass and has seeded 80 acres in the past 4 years. Soil Conservation Service {SCS] program started on this farm in 1952. OK-401-6.

Photograph of Weeping lovegrass. Claude Gilbert in a field of weeping lovegrass that was mowed once this year making 1 1/2 tons of hay per acre. Mowed twice in 1955 and yielding 100 ounds of seed per acre which was sold for 65 cents per pound. Gilbert fertilizes his weeping lovegrass with 100 pounds of 10-20-10 fertilizer per acre each spring. Soil Conservation Service program started on this farm in 1952. OK-401-9.

Photograph of Claude Gilbert's cattle.

Article describes the growth and development of the Fort Cobb, the prairie town that took the place of the old military post. Vera Zumwalt Holding recalls the establishment of local businesses, schools, churches, town events, and personal memories of her hometown.

Article describes the history of Fort Cobb, from its establishment for the protection of the Wichita Agency, to its status as a Confederate base during the Civil War, to its military use by the United States Cavalry during wars with the surrounding tribes along the Washita River.