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Volume 6, Issue 7 - Feature #770

An Old Cherokee Strip Pioneer...

Sorry, but it looks like I misspelled my great grandfather's last name... it is "McFadden" and not "McFaddan".

WDM - 2011-10-04 02:24:50

W.P. (William Pruitt) McFadden was my grandfather, and Alexander McFaddan my great grandfather. I have seen the movie he wrote about, Cimarron, and it is a very good representation of how we might envision that event, had we been there to witness it. Of course, there is a more recent screen version that my grandfather never saw, which is the run depicted in the Ron Howard movie Far & Away, with Tom Cruise and Nichole Kidman. Ironically, the home that Alexander McFadden built his home on a few years later is still standing today... it may not be in great condition, but it's still there, as is the nearby McFadden cemetary where Alex & Mary are buried. My grandparents, Wm. P. (who told the story) & Myrtle J. McFadden are buried in Blythe, CA.

Wm. McFadden, Jr. - 2009-03-10 06:28:53

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