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Cherokee Strip Fever By Zola Sample  $14.95 |
Cherokee Strip Fever
by Zola Sample
ISBN: 0-934188-13-0½"
dust jacket, illustrated
FROM THE PUBLISHER
Cherokee Strip Fever begins in March 1895, when 25 year old,
terrified but resolute Charity Bellis, with three small children,
leaves the security of her Iowa home to join her husband in Indian
Territory, seeking a homestead. A near disastrous crossing of the
swollen Arkansas River highlights one of the book's best chapters.
Once united, the family must battle against frontier uncertainty,
natural calamities, outlaw gangs and hard times in its struggle to
survive on the frontier. With determination and resoluteness, the
Bellises win their own piece of land.
In 1989 Zola Sample was a resident of Okmulgee. At 88 years of age,
she lived by herself, was blind, nearly deaf, but still managed to
write a newspaper column and attend church every time the doors were
open. Before her death she completed two books, her autobiography
and a sequal to Cherokee Strip Fever.