Cherokee Country

A GUNSHOT AT HIGH NOON opened the Cherokee "Strip", September 16, 1893, & over 100,000 people poured into the once-Indian Outlet. Their goal?--to stake a 160-acre claim from 6,000,000 obtained from the Cherokee Indians by the United States Government. THAT SEPTEMBER RUN for free land was the greatest race the world has ever known. Among the racers was a determined young woman from New York by way of Kansas. ALONE AT TWENTY-ONE, Garnet Mallory had cast her lot among the settlers in Cherokee country, "out west" in the northern part of Oklahoma Territory. Against this authentic backdrop you experience the fast paced action, the romance & tragedy in the life of this young woman. TOGETHER SHE & YOUNG STEVE--her uncle's motherless, 14 year-old son, battle nearly every hardship known--drought, pestilence, disease, accident, death, storms, & extremes of heat & cold. From her earnings as a school teacher, Garnet wins the longed-for improvements. "CHEROKEE COUNTRY" laces together the lives of the "Strip" settlers, of Garnet & Dave, Michael Fenton, & many others with factual detail & warmth of insight. It is a story so vivid you laugh & cry, suffer & rejoice with the characters. You come to know what it meant to be where the action centered during a dramatic, stirring one time event. In "CHEROKEE COUNTRY," AUTHOR ELIZABETH BAKER includes a fascinating supplement of "Strip" recipes, remedies, & household hints; with eight pages of pioneer photographs, several from the family album.Baker, Elizabeth is the author of 'Cherokee Country', published 1968 under ISBN 9780937766248 and ISBN 0937766240.