No Man's Land: A Smuggler's Paradise (with music) (duplicated)

What if I told you there’s a piece of America that once belonged to nobody and became

a smuggler’s paradise? This is the Oklahoma Panhandle — a 34-mile-tall, 166-mile-long rectangle once known as No

Man’s Land. In 1850, Texas was forced to give up this area because it

sat north of the line that banned slavery. So overnight, this land became

ownerless. For nearly 40 years, no government, no laws, no sheriff.

Just open land. And that’s when things got wild. Smugglers, outlaws,

and drifters flooded in. Everything from whiskey to stolen cattle moved through

this legal loophole. Locals even tried forming their own “Cimarron Territory,” complete with homemade