Richard Thomas,
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"weather" in North Texas and Indian Territory as a collective term found in my Name Index that I posted on my web page.
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http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/CollectiveTerms.htm
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The following listing of collective terms is from my 200-page Name Index may help navigate� my 1,046-page book. ..These collective terms may shed light on� the sociological aspects of life in North Texas and Indian Territory.
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Collective terms in my Name Index
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The following listing of collective terms in the Name Index may help navigate� my 1,046-page book, from handwritten records, with a 200-page Name Index and a 20-page Gazetteer. ..These collective terms may shed light on� the sociological aspects of life in North Texas and Indian Territory.

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weather
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drought, 17, 88, 167, 294, 304, 345
lightning, 2, 266
snow and sleet, 73, 188, 338, 343, 344, 345, 382
storm, rainstorm, 10, 74, 93, 306, 371, 373
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110 degrees in the shade. ..I do not remember any mention of "uncomfortably hot weather" in the documents that I transcribed, a 25-inch stack of hdndwritten records. ..The main theme was closer starvation and just plain survival, see "foodstuffs" on
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http://www.bourlandcivilwar.com/CollectiveTerms.htm
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On the above web page, I must quickly add that a serious researcher should look at the poor horses. Some horse died of starvation. (I have not seen evidence that people of Texas or Indian Territory died of starvation, per se.)
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transportation
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horses, killed, starved, too weak to travel, 154, 158, 159,

171, 188, 235, 243, 246, 250, 274, 291, 294, 298,

330, A-317
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Drought. Below is a statement followed in my book by a listing of 53 men who were given furloughs to go home and make arrangements to feed their families ... and their communities.
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"Bourland requested permission for his men to go home and tend their crops. Gen. McCulloch granted permission for
one-third of Bourland’s men to take a 20-day furlough to tend their crops, since their 1864 wheat crop had failed,
which caused near starvation. On February 18, 1865 Bourland granted permission for his men to go home and plant
grain, but to be back at camp by March 30, 1865."
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Richard Thomas. As a scientist, I'm glad somebody is researching Oklahoma's climate history. .. I'm sure you are aware that as an Oklahoma farmer's daughter, "rainfall" was on our minds all day, every day.
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When we first moved to Duncan OK c2007, I called the local Agricultural Extension agent, to ask the frost line or freezing depth since I have roses. ..I don't remember the exact numbers, but I was surprised about how shallow the freeze depth for water was. ..He said that only a few years earlier, the freeze depth was a much deeper, a number that I guessed, which was true 40 years ago.
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Patti, prochette@Juno.com
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