Oklahoma
Oil made Oklahoma a rich state, but natural-gas production has now relied on the most. Oil refining, meat packing, food processing, and machinery manufacturing (especially construction and oil equipment) are major important industries. Minerals produced in Oklahoma include helium, gypsum, zinc, cement, coal, copper, and silver. Oklahoma's rich plains produce bumper yields of wheat, as well as large crops of sorghum, hay, cotton, and peanuts. More than half of Oklahoma's annual farm receipts are contributed by livestock products, including cattle, dairy products, swine, and broilers. Tourist attractions include the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, the Will Rogers Memorial in Claremore, the Cherokee Cultural Center with a restored Cherokee village, the restored Fort Gibson Stockade near Muskogee, the Lake Texoma recreation area, pari-mutuel horse racing at Remington Park in Oklahoma City, and Blue Ribbon Downs in Sallisaw. Oklahoma has 50 state parks and 77 counties. Oklahoma's size is 68,667 square miles. In 2005, the estimated population for this state was 3,547,884 people.(Infoplease)
Oklahoma would probably not be on the list of best places for a vacation but it if you want to see 10,000 acre cattle ranches and mile after mile of wheat fields or oil and gas wells then it would be the place to visit. The Oklahoma land rush comes into my mind with settlers trying to stake there claim on a piece of farmland to raise there family on.
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