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The Spent Arrow By Inez Lacey Evans  $15.95 |
The Spent Arrow
by
Inez Lacey Evans
Cloth cover, 306 pages 6"x9"
dust jacket
From The Publisher
The Spent Arrow
is an historical fiction with a setting in Anadarko, 0.T. as the
Plains Indians gave way to the settlement of southwestern Oklahoma.
George Brandt, a roving ranch hand, and Cinthia Arnold. daughter of
Colonel Arnold, fall in love in Agency Town where George has paused
in his travels. Agency Town is a settlement of government offices
responsible for allotting land to the Indians and preparing for the
opening of the Territory and the establishment of Anadarko. The
story unwinds around the couple's relationship with the white man’s
establishment, and the plight of the Indians. It is a tender love
story suitable for family reading and is rife with much new insight
into the sociological changes that were in the making as the Indians
were forced to give up their way of life for the movement of
civilization into one of the last frontiers in the civilizing of the
United States. The author came to Oklahoma Territory as an infant
and spent the first 23 years of her life in Anadarko. The story was
built around characters revealed to her by her father, W. I. Lacey,
who was a recorder of deeds for the Dawes Commission. The family
moved to Oregon after the author's marriage in 1923. This is an
Oklahoma book, about Oklahoma, written by an Oklahoman, and
published by an Oklahoma publisher.