Duchess Dozing Domain

Alva, Oklahoma - I did not get to see my horse pal, Nugget, but doesn't he look great grazing out at Clark's West Ranch? And what about that little Dun filly, Maggie, and her 2010 filly colt. NW Okie put more photos of her horses along with Clark's Longhorns, on her Facebook photo album.

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The Old Courthouse

Alva, Oklahoma - Do any of you Northwest Oklahomans remember the Old Woods county courthouse that existed from 1904 to 1957?

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NWOSU's Old Science Hall

Alva, Oklahoma - Northwestern's old Science Hall has seen many changes in its lifetime. It started out as the second building after the Castle on the Hill as built. The only building with any remnants of the towers and crenellations in the design of a castle.

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Monsoon & Bears Make the Scene In SW Colorado

Bayfield, Colorado - If it is not deer eating the beans and parsley, it is the other wildlife, such as this young bear that was spotted checking the bird feeders at 6:45 in the evening the other day. We are told that beating on the door did not scare off this young bear.

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Woods County Courthouse Fountain

Alva, Oklahoma - We did a quick search back through all the information that the "OkieLegacy" has gathered over the last eleven or twelve years and put up on our Woods County pages. We had completely forgot about the fountain story with the 2x4 lumber pressed into thewrought iron fence spikes around the fountain on the west side of the square.

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NW Okie's Rambling On the Prairie

Alva, Oklahoma - Around mid-week we took a couple of 4x4 ATVs out west to some of our land called the Eagle Chief Ranch to explore and get to some places we could not get to with our Tundra pickup.

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THIS DAY IN HISTORY

1567 - Mary, Queen of Scots, is imprisoned and forced to abdicate her throne to her 1-year-old son James VI.

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