The Cherokee Strip: A Tale of an Oklahoma Boyhood

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This memoir by a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner tells of life on the southern plains in the 1890s and early in this century. A delightfully human and intimate account of an Oklahoma boyhood, THE CHEROKEE STRIP has enough color of Indians, cowboys, bad men, and peace officers for those who like a little gun smoke, but will also ring true to those who remember the small-farm, small-town Oklahoma before oil had been found under the Short Grass. . . .It tells of small-town politics and newspapers, claim-jumpers and train robbers, of Jesse James and Quanah Parker. Stanley Vestal, THE BOOK LOVER’S SOUTHWEST Here is the perpetual variety of small town Oklahoma characters, incidents, changes; the self-confidence of an American boyhood; in honest, winning revelation. KIRKUS