The Traveling Timber Towns Author:Fayrene Benson, Jimm Jacobs, Bob Burke The harvesting of vast regions of virgin shortleaf pine forests that stretched from the Oklahoma-Arkansas boundary westward to Atoka, Oklahoma, was a unique era in American history. Prior to Oklahoma becoming a state in 1907, no large scale lumbering existed in the area. It was the coming of the Dierks timber towns (1910-1968) that launched this... more » bold and exciting story.« less