The Late Sooner Event

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On Saturday, March 10, Kansas Author's Club, District #2 hosted an event "Writing the Skeletons in Your Closet" at Johnson County's Antioch Library.

I shared a power point presentation of the steps I took to write The Late Sooner based on my great-grandfather's one-line-a-day diary. I also furnished handouts of helpful books and websites for history writers.

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.