Volume 6 , Issue 6

75th Anniversary - Great Race of 1893...

I also found another little Oklahoma history tidbit about the Great Race of '93 (1893, that is). It was written in September, 1968, commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the "Great Race of 1893. " I have put it up on my NW OkieLegacy website. This article was published in The Alva Review-Courier , dated Monday, September 16, 1968, in Alva, Oklahoma. It was taken from an article that was written for the Redbook Edition, back in April, 1935, and written by Gen. Hugh S. Johnson about his father (S. L. Johnson's) experiences of the Great Race of '93. The excerpts of the 1935 article appeared in the local NW Oklahoma newspaper by way of Dr. Morton H. McKean, on Sept. 16, 1968, on occasion of Oklahoma's 75th Anniversary. It starts out... "This (the boom and bust in southern Kansas prior to 1893) whole chain of events came to an abrupt end with the Oklahoma hegira. My father (S. L. Johnson) had been appointed Postmaster at the then non-existent but expectant town of Alva. He took my mother, my two baby brothers, the whole post-office paraphernalia, and some household goods ahead in a box-car, which switched to a siding, was for a week one of not more than twelve human-habitations in the place where that town was planned to be......"

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