Volume 10 , Issue 13

Oklahoma History Ball Pushed Forward

"Thank you for attempting to push the Oklahoma history ball forward. I hope you will look at my website that describes my 1,046-page book: Bourland Civil War, Bourland in North Texas and Indian Territory in North Texas during the Civil War: fort Cobb, fort Arbuckle, and the Wichita Mountains.

Hope you will tell your friends about my 1,046-page book that weighs 7.3 pounds. Attached HERE are:

1) my 6-page handout at my speeches. Since I have a large book, I have an extensive handout.

2) the form letter that I send to libraries all over the USA. I think my best advertisement is listing the local libraries that have shelved my 1,046-page book that is 70% from handwritten records.

3) Judge Abell's book review is important since he is the only reviewer who understands Indian wars as well as the Civil War. The most important sentence is the last sentence of the first paragraph. Also, on the review on the second page, he used my book as a standard of reference.

Bourland in North Texas and Indian Territory During the Civil War: Fort Cobb, Fort Arbuckle & the Wichita Mountains, ISBN: 0-9761405-3-5, Pages: 1,046 pages including four indexes: one is a 150-page Name Index. Binding Type: Oilcloth hard cover; List Price: $125.00 each. Shipping: $8.00 each, my 8.5x11 book weighs 7.3 pounds. I have transcribed 240 militia listings and the militia correspondence of 34 counties of North Texas in order to interpret the Bourland Papers -- about 200 Civil War era documents, 43 of which are not in the Official Record, but should be. Topics that I have addressed extensively are: the Brush Battalion; Quantrill in North Texas; gruesome details of four Comanche-Kiowa Indian raids into North Texas including the 1864 Battle of Elm Creek; 1862 Tonkawa Massacre in Anadarko, I.T.; Camp Napoleon Meeting attended by 5,000 to 7,000 Indians plus J.W. Throckmorton in now Grady County, OK; and the Confederate treaties with the tribes of Indian Territory, especially the Reserve Tribes of the Leased Lands. Starvation in Indian Territory among all of the tribes is a central theme of my book.

About 70% of my 1,046-page study is from handwritten records and about 90% is from contemporaneous sources. It addresses the Civil War era in the area bounded by Oklahoma City, Dallas, Texarkana, and Childress to Jones Counties, Texas. My book is described on my website, www.bourlandcivilwar.com." -- Patricia Adkins-Rochette, 580-252-2094, 1509 Shadybrook Lane, Duncan, OK 73533, www.bourlandcivilwar.com."
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