These High PlainsMrs. Turner wrote the book to preserve cherished memories of my forty years on These High Plains. In it, there is much about Amarillo and the wider Panhandle area generally, including the open range, cattlemen such as Charles Goodnight and John Adair, and Dodge City. Railroads (the author was married to a pioneer official of the Santa Fe Railway Company), the discovery of oil in West Texas, and other topics of historical significance such as Old