Women who pioneered Oklahoma : stories from the WPA narratives / edited by Terri M. Baker and Connie Oliver Henshaw ; foreword by M. Susan Savage.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Baker, Terri M., 1948-

Henshaw, Connie Oliver, 1946-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women pioneers--Oklahoma--History.

Women pioneers.

Women pioneers--Oklahoma--Correspondence.

Choctaw women--Oklahoma--History.

Choctaw women.

Minority women--Oklahoma--History.

Minority women.

Frontier and pioneer life--Oklahoma.

Frontier and pioneer life.

Social conditions.

History.

Oklahoma.

Oklahoma--History.

Oklahoma--Social conditions.

Genre:

Correspondence.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xx, 226 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [2007]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index.

ISBN:

9780806138459

0806138459

9780806138466

0806138467

OCLC:

82286569