Showing posts with label 1889; pioneers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1889; pioneers. Show all posts

Sunday, March 4, 2012

How to Write the Skeletons in Your Closet

On Saturday, March 10, I will be sharing "How to Write the Skeletons in Your Closet" for Kansas Authors Club, District #2, at the Antioch Branch of the Johnson County Library, Shawnee Mission and Antioch in Mission, Kansas, at 9:30 a.m. All are welcome. Admission free.

I will give tips on helpful websites for research and useful books to help your writing process as well as a power point presentation of how I wrote "The Late Sooner," my historical novel based on my great-grandfather's diary from 1889.

Sunday, March 4, 2007

First Oklahoma Land Run


April 22, 1889, an estimated 50,000 pioneers crowded along the borders of the Unassigned Lands to make the first land run in Oklahoma history. The race began at high noon. They came by train, horse, buggy, and bicycle to win 160 acres of their very own.