Boise City, Oklahoma ||| Population 1,166 ||| small town, USA
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Boise City, Oklahoma, is a very unique subject for this week's small town, USA, video. It is the county seat of Cimarron County in the extreme western part of the Oklahoma panhandle. It's also home to over half of the county's entire population. This area was known as No Man's Land in the mid to late 1800's and attracted a rowdy group of settlers. It also suffered tremendously from the Dust Bowl in the 1930's. Through it all it has survived and has some very interesting places to visit! I had a lot of fun exploring Boise City!
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0:00 Intro
0:36 Downtown Walk & Talk
3:58 Town & Drone Tour
6:23 Final Thoughts
9:15 Boise City Airport
Music
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Boise City, has an amazing history. It's existence was to be. Beautiful area and exciting area to enjoy spend ing time in. Thanks John for finding this area of great interest.
Couldn't agree more!
Great video! My wife and I drove through there two years ago when we moved to Oklahoma. I’ve wanted to go back to explore the area more and your video inspires me to make the effort. If you go through Guymon, stop at Naifeh’s Steak House. One of the best steaks I’ve had and the prices are very reasonable.
Very cool! I’ve got plenty more coming from this area! Thanks for the recommendation!
The drone shot of the town circle is pretty cool.
Thanks! Definitely shows how unique it is!
❤️ thanks for doing this video. I know I appreciate your kind words towards us out here in No Mans Land.
You are so welcome! I really love this area and have a lot more to come!
That circle threw me off first time I drove through there. Lol !! Ended up on a dirt road to Kenton. Actually glad it did, great scenic drive. Thank you for all your videos.
That's awesome! Kenton wil make an appearance in a couple weeks :)
Excellent. One thing about the panhandle of Oklahoma, the wind seldom stops, and it can really get to woofing out there.
This is very true 😊 💨
To think it has survived not only the dust bowl, but also a friendly fire bombing, sort of distinguishes this town from most. I absolutely love the light posts they have near the downtown. Keep the videos coming Coach!
It's definitely a survivor and the people have overcome a lot! Will do! :)
All of your videos holds my interest. Well thought out and presented.
Thank you!👍
I appreciate that comment. Sometimes I wonder if they get repetitive or boring!
I like his style of presentation as well
Hey Coach. Looks o.k. out there.I like drone @ 5 minute mark. The old tarmac looks pretty good still.Keep on truckin.
Thank you! Yes the runway was in good shape!
Wow I still can't get my head around such a small place being called a city, but it is! Like you said John an authentic place, and you see it's face, warts and all! Interesting both geographically and historically. Thanks John, a nice little video.
Haha I didn’t think about that but you’re right! I’m guessing when they originally named it they envisioned it being much bigger someday!
Just west of Boise City on US 412 A couple of miles from the New Mexico state line is the town of Felt. Felt OK.
Love the ending
Yep! It’ll be in a future episode 😊
Been to Boise City many times and I love it out there. In fact me and my grandpa just drove to every county seat in Oklahoma and alternated running a mile in each. I was fortunate to run in Boise City and it’s a neat little town.
That’s really cool! 😎
I came across your channel several days ago and enjoyed the two videos I've seen so far! I grew up in KS (about an hour north of Wichita), so towns like Boise City bring back some fond memories. Thank you 🙂
Thanks so much for watching! Hope you continue to enjoy 😊
I live an hour north of Wichita 😊
You may be familiar with McPherson County?
@@archiewatson6188 Yes. Very! In Roxbury myself
@@jefftrego8491 I grew up in Lindsborg and McPherson. Very familiar with Roxbury!
Thank you, Jon. I remember driving from Amarillo to Liberal KS to pick up a load of swinging meat about 50 years ago and Boise City was in between. It seems like not much has changed. I wish these small cities could somehow rebound to former glory. GO SHOCKERS!
It’s definitely tough out there for them. I’m hoping they rebound as well!
Daniel, I can totally agree with you! I remember all those small towns as I was a small kid growing up in the 1950's. People were scurrying around doing their business and leading their lives in these small towns. And the night that the town businesses stayed open for the farmers to be able to come to town and do their "trading" was usually a packed downtown night. Plenty of both business and socializing going on. Now to drive through them and seeing only a few cars and maybe a couple of people walking the downtown is so sad to me. They were never that quiet during the day back then. Another quality of life that has disappeared from our society.
@@ronfullerton3162 I agree. Everyone is at Wal Mart buying junk made in China.
@@ronfullerton3162 Yes, things have changed, sometimes not for the best. As much as I appreciated driving my millions of miles on the Interstates, I loved the old US numbered highways much more. I still do now I've retired from trucking. Always something to see & at a slower pace
@@danielmoore7332 I also drove trucks on and off through my life. And I share your feelings exactly. Give me the old two layers, and even those county blacktops. Far more fun! I enjoy driving yet, especially in my own time and time schedule. I am an old farm boy, so traveling those country roads are just the same as being back home.
Happy and many safe miles to you!
Kenton, OK is the only town in OK in the mountain time zone.
Tell me you stopped and got beef jerky at No Nans Land, nicest people and best jerky! Beautiful part of our state. ❤
I LOVE their beef jerky but that store was closed. But watch Sunday’s video for more 😊
So sad that our small towns are disappearing.
😔
Thank you for the video. I've never seen anything about Boise City. The whole place is sort of a museum without being a ghost town.
Yes for sure - that’s why I said it felt very authentic. Love those kinds of places 😊
That's incredible. The town was started by fraudulent means, yet, there it is, and it prospered. A lot of the buildings you videoed look to be in good condition, though some of them are worse for wear. And you toured the local airport. How cool is that! I can imagine that the elevation there is higher being so close to Colorado. What made you choose Cimarron County, OK to explore? I really curious how you choose your destinations; suggestions from viewers, throw a dart at a map? 😆 Great video as always, and I hope to learn more about Cimarron County in future videos.
I agree - what a wild story. Definitely was the wild west out there! Yes the elevation is arund 4000'. I have been wanting to do a series of videos about No Man's Land out there and this is the first one :)
NICE QUIET TOWN..THANKS COACH 😅
Thank you 😊
I drive through the panhandle of OK several times a year. And in Boise City you truly feel you are in the middle of no where
We were impressed with the small town and the RV park was nice.
The RV park definitely looked nice and had a cool putt-putt course. Right next to the museum too!
Used to drive a truck thru there weekly going from Ardmore to Denver....town "square" was vibrant and busy then....then a bypass was put in...you can see the results!
John, another great video with a tremendous personal touch. On the southeast corner of the Square approximately where the caboose is, stood the very last Selective Service Office that I have ever seen. There is a great little cafe on the north side of US 56 near the Townsman Motel. Speaking of the motel, I woke up one morning 38 years ago to find 4" of snow inside of the room by the door. The crack wasn't that big, the wind was horrific.
Thank you very much! And thanks for the info/story. Definitely a unique place!
Great video John! Lots of historical info. Never been to the area but definitely worth a visit
Thanks! Lots more coming from this area!
i agree with all of John's commenters that this is another great video and most certainly worth watching. The comments about this being a beautiful area and a lovely town are very...generous. Boise City is perhaps a great place to be for some folks. But take a close look at the landscape. It is easy to see why Boise City was the very center of the Dust Bowl. Then (1930's) as now, there are no geographical impediments (such as hills, valleys even gentle rises) to deter the wind and save the soil. Nor are there trees, other than a rare thirsty looking yard tree. I can understand the comment about driving around the town circle and getting lost. There no landmarks (other than the sad old courthouse) to give you a guide as to where you are. Still, Boise City as a focus for one of john's videos is a treasure. A "beautiful area and exciting area to enjoy spending time in" may be very true for some folks. For others, driving through Boise City OK is depressing enough to make you cry. In any event, the panhandle of Oklahoma is an important place in America for one of John's wonderful videos.
One of the reasons I mentioned that it was a conflicting place for me is because of some of what you said. One thing that doesn’t come through in my videos often enough is how nice the people are. And everyone I met there was very nice. Thanks for the comment!
I'm sorry you didn't get to go through the museum! It really is excellent and I look forward to travelling through that part of the country again.
Good morning from northeastern oklahoma
Morning!
It is 600 miles to drive from Boise City to Idabel, OK on Oklahoma State Highway 3 and never leave Oklahoma.
Also, Cimarron County is the only US county that borders 4 states.
We stopped here to eat on the way to Taos last week and also on the way back home to Hutchinson as it was close to the midway point of the one-day drive. The Burger basket at the Bluebonnet Cafe was excellent and a good value. Tacos at Guera's very good as well & slightly pricier.
Thanks! Enjoy your videos John. Be safe out there.😊
Thank you so much Pamela! So appreciated ❤
Nice! Love the drone shots! Thanks
Glad you like them! Cool to see the circle from above 😊
The center of the dust bowl was the Oklahoma panhandle, where the dust bowl started. I notice the Kansas State power cat on the water tower. Another great video. Thanks.
Some amazing pictures from the dust bowl were shot in the area!
The school mascot is the Boise City Wildcats
Loved this video! I hope you do a video over Felt, Oklahoma when you’re back in Cimarron county :)
Thanks! Felt will be part of Cimarron County Part 3 - which will be in about 3 weeks :)
Rode through Boise City four summers ago. Came south on 385. I had been up looking for the site of Toonerville Colorado (only one old building left standing). In a very desolate and rural part of Oklahoma it was a oasis. Gassed up the Harley, found a bite to eat and headed off towards New Mexico. I did note they had a plethora of churches. . And I have to agree with the musical "Oklahoma,
Where the wind comes sweepin' down the plain". it was "sweeping" the whole time I rode thru the panhandle.
Fascinating area. I can’t imagine what original pioneers thought rolling through there on the Santa Fe Trail 😊
Hi john thanks for the tour cool town i hope more people move back there . Cheers mate🇦🇺
I hope so too 😊
Lots of dinosaur artifacts in the area. Clayton, NM has Dino tracks. Folsom Man was discovered in the area by George McJunckin (sp). Black Jack Ketchum also roamed this area. He was hanged in Clayton, NM and it was a gruesome hanging. Interesting history if you read about it.
Great video. There's always a part of me that sees these small towns struggling to survive that wishes I could open a business there that brought jobs and money to invest back into community. I really hope the rise of remote work saves at least some of these towns.
I agree wholeheartedly 😊
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Always such a nice and supportive message from you - thanks so much 😊 the channel has been doing really well lately because of people like you!
Yes! All of this!!! 👍
Very interesting town. Thanks for sharing.
Thanks! Interesting trip!
Thank you.
You're welcome!
It’s a shame that the museum was closed. It’s one of the most interesting museums I’ve been to. From dinosaurs to farming history, folk art and an impressive automobile collection.
Great video though really enjoyed it.
Hoping to go back and see it next time!
When I lived in Guymon I spent a lot of time in Boise City. I used to know the owner of the Boise City News
Nice! Such an interesting area! For new too I'm sure.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy I don't remember if this was covered in another video but did you ever go to Black Mesa?
@@travis303 No but I will on Sunday :)
Great video What a neat town. My dad been to guymon, ok I only been to eastern Oklahoma
Oklahoma is very different from east to west!
Nice video 👍🏼 We were in Guymon, OK on 6/14/24 at a gas station. There was a guy in there that looked exactly like you.
Haha that’s funny! Definitely wasn’t me 😂
Great video and never knew all that history about it. Always like passing through there. I have a trip planned sometime to stay there and then head West out of there into Northeastern New Mexico then up into Southeastern Colorado and back to Kansas. Not sure yet when I will do it.
Thank you! I've got a lot more coming from this area - such a fascinating history! You'll really enjoy visiting out that way!
This will be an interesting place to visit. The drone shots were gorgeous, especially the one at 5:00. Makes me imagine how incredible the view would be if someone had a house on the outskirts of town - it would never get old, and neither do your videos. Thank you for sharing all this with us! 😊
P.S., love that you showed the local airport.
Once you get on the outskirts of town it really is wide open - more on that soon 😊 I love small airports! Thanks so much Susan!
It's so flat there you can watch your dog runaway for two weeks.
Hahaha!
You are absolutely correct! You can see the grain elevators coming from the west for almost 16 miles.
The pronunciation of this town took me by surprise. I expected it to rhyme with Boise, Idaho. Reminds me of how, near Gatlinburg, TN, the one mountain in the National Park, Mt. Conte, is pronounced Mount Le Cont by the locals😢.
Interesting 🤔
going that way in July , no man’s land best beef jerky , interesting looking town!
I agree! Love their jerky!
I live in Tulsa and have never been to the Panhandle, but would love to go. The elevation there also is closer to the Rockies than it is to most other places in Oklahoma. The highest point in Oklahoma is also located in Cimarron County at 4900 feet or so with the Black Mesa.
Worth a trip if you are able to someday!
I also love the rich history of small towns such as Boise City, Ok.❤❤
They're great!
Good trip! Interesting town. You should have made that bell ring. Just sayin. I’m looking forward to your next video.🙏❤️😎👍
Thank you! 😊
Very interesting town - I like the drone shots.
Many thanks!
The Cimmaron heritage center makes the meals for Okietex BTW they work super hard too
I'm not surprised there are so many comments on this one. You really captured the 'poetry' and essence of this place. We passed through Boise CIty a number of times though the last time was 2005. I remember a clothing shop on the circle at the time. One time we had lunch at the DQ and there happened to be a dead cattle dropped off outside the veterinarian's office next door. Be sure to check out Kenton, OK in the northwestern corner of the county - Oklahoma's only town in the mountain time zone
Thank you! Very interesting area to explore and there is more to come about that town in the mountain time zone 😊
Ground zero for the Dust Bowl. I could live there, Love it.😅 It looks like a dieing town, thousands of them in America 😢. Thanks for Sharing.
Thanks! I have a lot more coming from this area. Such a fascinating place!
Me too!! I love the wide open spaces. So beautiful
Great video John! Did you getaway from the tornados in Lincoln lol?!?!
Yep I survived it haha!
Been there many times. My sister managed the supermarket there.
Great video information John😮
Thank you 😊
Thanks for the tour, never explored the strip
I’ve got a lot more coming up from this area. Very interesting!
THE DINOSAUR MAY AT ONE TIME WAS AN SINCLAIR OIL ADVERTISEMENT AS IT WAS THEIR LOGO!
For sure - very cool! 🦖
Nice area although it looks kind of depressed. I think we all have wondered what would.... bring it back (2 to 3 thousand people, or more, interest to all but I'm rambling. Nice video, be good, be safe !!
Yeah it definitely has some areas that have seen better days. I think the museum would’ve been good though!
@@TravelwithaWiseguy That's right, the museum was closed. And yes, that would have been very nice to go through.
Enjoy your videos I’m trying to make driving channel thanks for inspiration been watching for while
Best of luck! And thanks for the nice comment :)
Been there many time but only at the Loves and State weigh station😊😊
The last time I went through Boise City, it was still a traffic square and not yet a circle. That was probably 50 years ago when I was still a kid. We used to drive that way from the northeastern part of the Texas panhandle to get to Denver. Typical airport for the smaller towns in that area, too, just varies by size. Memories :)
Interesting it used to be a square!
Great video!!! Probably my most favorite county in the state of Oklahoma because it is way out there, is the ONLY COUNTY in the USA that touches 4 other states, all the prehistoric & human history, great scenery!! Have been through that town numerous times while en route to Black Mesa Nature Preserve & Black Mesa State Park. The state park really is way out there in NO WHERE, but well worth the visit - beautiful park. While driving to the Nature Preserve, there is a roadside rest stop with a concrete replica of a DINOSAUR LEG BONE on display - just something to break up the monotony of the trip, pretty neat!! The Nature Preserve is home to the highest elevation point in the state of Oklahoma - Black Mesa. It is about a 4.5-mile hike to the highpoint marker - have made the hike about 5 times. Also, not too far from the parking lot of the Nature Preserve and if you know where to look, there are some DINOSAUR FOOTPROINTS along a creek bed. There used to be a sign indicating where the footprints are, but my last 2 trips out that way the sign was gone.
After dorking around the Black Mesa area, I would head on over to Clayton, NM, and spend some time. There is an awesome DINOSAUR FOOTPRINT collection up at Clayton Lake State Park. IF you visit the state park, be aware of BEARS!! My last visit there about 6-years or so ago and there was a bear sighting, and the entire park was on warning. Where you park at for the dino footprints would be roughly .5-mile one-way hike (well worth it if interested in that stuff). Also, Clayton. NM is where the train robber Tom "Blackjack" Ketchum is buried - he had a gruesome death.
The small town of Folsom, NM is not very far from Clayton, and you will bypass it if heading west towards Capulin Volcano National Site - another awesome spot to stop and visit. Folsom is where prehistoric ancestors known as FOLSOM MAN were discovered and the town used to have a small museum dedicated to that event.
That part of OK/NM/CO there are lots of locations that have dino footprints. Some long hikes to get to them and most on private property (have made plenty of those hikes). South of La Junta, CO, is home to the largest site in North America where dinosaur footprints were discovered. About a 5-mile one-way hike just to visit them but well worth it.
Thank you! And you just gave a pretty good preview of my next video :)
@@TravelwithaWiseguy LOL!!! Awesome!!
New Braunfels, Texas, north of San Antonio also has a circle around their courthouse. New Braunfels is much bigger than Boise City. The fraud stores reminded me of real estate sales brochures I have seen in news articles. These brochures had pictures of green, very fertile looking land while trying to sell desert land in west Texas.
very cool :)
Your videos are great but still think you need to hit Gueda Springs! Check out its past and compare it to what it is today!
Someday!
The black mesa is one of my favorite places on earth. So peaceful and quiet. It’s just you and God out there. Cinnamon county is the least populated county in Oklahoma. A little stat for ya’ll.
Thanks! And yep for sure! Check out my next videos as I dive deeper into Cimarron County 😊
That’s a perfect ending, at the airport!
Yes! ✈️
Vera June Ralston was born in Boise City, Oklahoma, on August 23, 1929 to Thomas and Bernice (née Wyrick) Ralston. She had three older brothers.
She grew up first in Pratt, Kansas, and later lived in Wichita, where she worked nights as a Western Union operator-typist and graduated from Wichita North High School in 1947. She was crowned Miss Kansas in 1948 and was the third runner-up in the Miss America contest. She relocated to Los Angeles and changed her last name to Miles and the rest is history. ~ Wikipedia.
Coach, for a college graduate your research skills are average at best. Jus playin! 😉Just thought I would help you out a little. Be good and safe Coach on that long, endless highway! 🙏
Haha! So I should’ve said she was BORN in Boise City. Does that mean she’s from there? I’m not sure on the technicality 😊
@@TravelwithaWiseguyshe was also in the movie “Wichita” 😊
Wow that's Crazy... 💣
I know right?!?!
North of BC on the river was found evidence of the early occupation by man, going back 12k years.
Was not the building in the circle seen in the movie " The Grapes of Wrath" as the Joads were leaving Oklahoma, driving out of the circle? I think I heard that somewhere.
🤷🏼♂️
We drive through there all the time to get to Colorado or anywhere in the NW
They really need to fix 287 that runs across there, because it is awfully rough lol
Looks like a lot of businesses have closed up, thats a shame
Definitely. There were a few modern places near the highway for gas, food, etc.
Why didt you put the pharmacy
Railroad car, it was a Caboose!
Had more traffic through town until they extended the 287
Go to lyons kansas
Where are the people? Looks like some abandoned town right out of the Twilight zone
There is more activity over by the expressway at the more modern “stops”
@@TravelwithaWiseguy Keep up the good work! I'm fascinated by the apparent bleakness of the Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle areas. Another interesting area is eastern Colorado from Springfield up to Burlington to Yuma..
my least fave of all the ones you've been to, didn't see a single coffee shop/restaurant or any retail biz that seemed to be running, especially for a a town over a thousand
I definitely understand what you’re saying. The Love’s Travel Center seemed to be the main place to eat and get some coffee.
@@TravelwithaWiseguy So, no playground in town?
@@VTGalinAZ They definitely had one but it was actually busy with families that day so I didn't want to intrude :)
You must have been there during siesta time. Saturdays are pretty quiet anyway.
You missed Santa Fe Trail Daze just the Saturday before. World Champion Post Hole digging competition, parade, gold dig, etc.
you do need to come back when the museum is open!! Well worth it - will take you several hours. Dugout, outhouse, wash house, the original railroad depot seen in the photo at the beginning of your video, farming implements,& Dino bones…
Dino sculpture’s name is Cimmy - there was a school competition to name him ❤
The Boise City Cemetery, established 1909. So what’d they do with the bodies of people that died before 1909?😂
I think that’s when the town basically started 🤷🏼♂️
Locals call it,"Boise Shitty".