Volume 17 , Issue 1

NW Okie's Journey

This is an old postcard, of Alva, Woods, Oklahoma businesses that lined the downtown square of Alva. Each view shows a different side (North, South, East and West) of the square with businesses across from the square during the early days of Alva. Not quite sure of the date, though.

Thanks to Joy Sherman for sharing her grandfather's legacy with the OkieLegacy a few years ago. We had the information on another page, and decided to move it to the OkieLegacy Ezine database.

Joy's father was Prof. John Cameron, Physics, NW State College. Her grandfather was Tom Dyer, one of the pioneer cowboys in the Woods and Alfalfa County, Oklahoma Territory in Barber and Kiowa County, Kansas during the Cherokee Strip Cattle Pool days. Her great-grandfather was none other than Scott Cummins, known as the "Sage of the Nescatunga" or the "Pilgrim Bard." Thanks to Joy Sherman for sharing the pioneer material concerning the early days of the Northwest Oklahoma Territory (O.T.).

These are some of the Northwest Pioneers of O.T.:

Charles F. Colcord - An obituary written by Tom Dyer in memory of Mr. Colcord. The Colcord ranch was not far from Coldwater, Kansas and it was from here that the "Salt Haulers" set forth from when they wound up being killed by Little Wolf's and Dull Knife's Cheyennes during their flight back to the Dakotas.

Wiley Cowan - Obituary penned by Tom Dyer. One of Wiley's daughters is Opal Nighswonger, a principal at Longfellow School in Alva during 1947-1951.

Ed Hinton - Another of Dyer's tributes to the passing of an old-timer. The name is variously spelled as "Hinton" and "Henton" in the article.

Alpha G. Updegraff - Another Tom Dyer's tributes to one of his old saddle mates, Alpha G. Updegraff.

Horse Thieves - by Judge T. J. Dyer, Jan. 31, 1933. Tom Dyer reminisces about various horse thieving incidents that he was aware of.

Elm Springs & Shady Grove - by T. J. Dyer, April, 1931 & Peoples Forum, October 2, 1934

Good Night! Good Luck!
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