Maude Clark Gay
Published: 2017-04-22
Total Pages: 308
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Excerpt from Paths Crossing: A Romance of the Plains I am going to say right now that I have little to do with this story, so that my personal feelings are neither here nor there. I had left woman and all back in the states along with things I just had to forget, and had begun life again out in this new country, - this glorious country, where a man is a man in spite of what his past has been, where they look you in the eyes and grip your hand, and no matter how hang-dog you may feel you know there is room for you here. When, in 1889, the government of the United States gave the first portion of Oklahoma to the people, it opened an asylum to those who had no longer a home in the East. True, there were many who were bad among those first settlers. All the flotsam and jetsam of the country went crashing in that mad race into the Territory. Those first days, - wonderful days, the like of which I never expect to see again, - were filled with dark happen ings. There were bitter feuds, lawlessness, and crime. But, in spite of it all, the good triumphed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.