Volume 8 , Issue 20

PIONEERS AND PIONEERING IN WOODS COUNTY...

As appeared in Cronicles of Oklahoma and written by Jesse J. Dunn -- "On the 16th of September, 1893, I rode into Alva on the train. My companion was a tall, slim fellow by the name of A. H. Burtis, from Garden City, Kansas. When I got off the train, everybody started to run for town lots, and I observed my slim friend running neck and neck with a tall woman and a long, one-legged shoemaker from Kiowa. The woman had drawn her skirts up about her knees so she could run easier and the shoemaker was lunging and plunging with his one leg, and the three of them were making the best time they could to the town lot section. The spectacle was too much for my risibles , and in laughing at them I fell down and failed entirely to get a lot...." -- [Chronicles of Oklahoma, Volume 3, No. 2, June, 1925, Page 141]   |  View or Add Comments (0 Comments)   |   Receive updates ( subscribers)  |   Unsubscribe

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