Bessie, Oklahoma

Everything Bessie is known for

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Music in Bessie

Songs About Bessie

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Bessie

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Bessie.

U.S. Route 66 19 songs Highway I 40 20 songs Canadian River 7 songs

History of Bessie

The Cap: Storm Country as a Pressure Cooker RoadyGoat

1950

On the most dangerous spring days out here, the sky can look deceptively calm right up until it explodes. The reason is something forecasters call the cap: a layer of warm, dry air riding along aloft, drifting out over the plains from the high deserts of Mexico and the Southwest. It acts like a lid on a pressure cooker, trapping all the warm, moist Gulf air underneath and letting its energy build and build through the afternoon without a single cloud forming. Then the dryline and the day's heat punch a hole in that lid. When the trapped air finally breaks through, it does not drizzle, it erupts, towering up in minutes into the kind of rotating supercell that drops giant hail and tornadoes. All that eerie calm was just the storm loading its spring.

9.1 mi away

Oklahoma Route 66 Museum

1926

Museum in Clinton documenting Oklahoma's 400 miles of Route 66, the longest stretch of any state along the Mother Road.

9.1 mi away

Things to Do in Bessie

quirky 20.5 mi away
Bertha Rogers Well Site

World deepest oil well at 31441 feet drilled in 1974. Hit molten sulfur instead of oil.
historical 22.4 mi away
Dr. Shadid Cooperative Hospital

In 1929 a Lebanese immigrant doctor built America first cooperative hospital. The AMA tried to destroy him.
music 23.4 mi away
Jimmy Webb Birthplace

Born here Aug 15 1946. Wrote Wichita Lineman and MacArthur Park. Youngest inducted into Songwriters Hall.
historical 23.4 mi away
Beutler and Son Rodeo Company

Three generations of Beutlers have provided rodeo stock to the NFR since the 1920s.
historical 23.5 mi away
National Route 66 Museum

Full museum complex tracing the Mother Road through all eight states it crossed.
quirky 23.4 mi away
Susan Powell Hometown (Miss America 1981)

Elk City girl crowned Miss America 1981. Population 10000. One in ten thousand.
historical 23.5 mi away
Elk City Founding Site at Elk Creek

Named for the elk that watered at the creek. Cheyenne-Arapaho land run opened it in 1901.
historical 23.5 mi away
Parker Drilling Company

Founded here in 1934. Became one of the largest drilling contractors on Earth.

Everything Near Bessie

28 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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