Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma: Stories from the WPA Narratives

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Interviews of Oklahoma history’s diverse women

They came in land runs and on the Trail of Tears, now and again with families, now and again 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 change into 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 variety of socioeconomic groups, ethnic backgrounds, and geographical locations to relate the pioneer experience as it used to be in point of fact lived.

Elegantly written, skillfully edited, Women Who Pioneered Oklahoma reflects the on a regular basis will and courage to live to tell the tale of Oklahoma’s founding mothers. It conveys the violence of a frontier culture set in a landscape of stark beauty where death used to be at all times just a heartbeat away. An important a part of the state centennial, theirs is the story of real Oklahoma, writ large—and in a distinctly female hand.

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