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Mama Grace By Dana Bagshaw  $17.95 |
Mama Grace
by Dana Bagshaw
ISBN: 0-934188-46-7
16 Photos, 274
pages 5 1/2"x 8 1/2"
From The Publisher
After the flood demolished their
home along the banks of the Chikaskia near Blackwell, Oklahoma in
1907, Mama Grace packaged her five children and her treasured
Majestic cookstove into a covered wagon and travelled -- minus Papa
-- to her father's homestead in Waynoka, Oklahoma.
Many years ago, Mama Grace was a historical story penned by Mama's
daughter. Letha Crossman. Publishers were not interested then, but a
great-granddaughter, Dana Bagshaw, rewrote the story and completed
the project and took it to Evans Publishing, Inc. Mama Grace was
selected by the Oklahoma Centennial Commission to bear the
Centennial Commission logo.
Letha Crossman was a resident and teacher in Ponca City from 1940 to
1968. Dana Jones Bagshaw grew up up in Fort Smith, Arkansas,
attended Phillips University in Enid, Oklahoma in the 1960s. She
received a B.A. degree from San Jose State University in California,
and took employment in Silicon Valley as a technical writer. She
currently resides in England where her play Cell Talk has been
published and performed. "What a story!" Sandra Olson of the Waynoka
Historical Society exclaimed. She described Grace as "a couragous
woman, a true pioneer who braved the unknown," "an entrepreneur,"
and "a wife who longingly watched the road for her husband's
promised coming."
The book includes a section of photos courtesy of the Waynoka
museum, along with those from the author.
In the final chapters of the book, Papa packs up the cookstove and
the family and travels -- minus Mama -- perched atop the refurbished
wagon through a bemused Tulsa in 1918 to a new farm in Siloam
Springs, Arkansas.