Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Coming to Indian territory and early Oklahoma -- Making a home -- Living with the animals -- Facing adversity -- Coping with lawlessness -- Creating a life -- Reflecting on the experience. Publisher Marketing:"Interviews of Oklahoma history's diverse women"They came in land runs and on the Trail of Tears, sometimes with families, sometimes alone. But the women who first came to Oklahoma all had trials to face--and stories to tell. In this stirring collection, the women who settled what would become Oklahoma tell their own stories in their own words. From thousands of interviews conducted by the Work Projects Administration in 1936-37 and preserved in the Indian Pioneer Papers of Oklahoma, editors Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw have selected the words of women from a wide range of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations to relate the pioneer experience as it was really lived. Elegantly written, skillfully edited, "Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma" reflects the everyday will and courage to survive of Oklahoma's founding mothers. It conveys the violence of a frontier culture set in a landscape of stark beauty where death was always just a heartbeat away. A vital part of the state centennial, theirs is the story of real Oklahoma, writ large--and in a distinctly female hand. Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 04/01/2011 pg. 58 (EAN 9780806138466, Paperback) Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2008 pg. 71 (EAN 9780806138459, Hardcover)