STOCK SALE - Thursday, Oct. 2, 1919 - W. A. Earp, Owner

 

Stock Sale for William A. Earp. This was published in the Stroud Democrat September 26, 1919.

Oklahoma Trails To The Past



I am so anxious to see this monument. Hopefully on my next trip to Oklahoma we will be able to make it happen. This bigger-than-life brass monument is located on Lincoln Blvd., Bricktown, Oklahoma City, OK.



OK Land Run monument by sculptor Paul Moore
Lt click to enlarge

The name Oklahoma comes from the Choctaw phrase, 'okla humma,' literally meaning red people.

Choctaw Chief Allen Wright suggested the name in 1866 during treaty negotiations with the federal government regarding the use   of Indian Territory, in which he envisioned an all-Indian state controlled by the United States Superintendent of Indian Affairs.  Equivalent to the English word Indian, okla humma was a phrase in the Choctaw language used to describe the Native American race as a whole. Oklahoma later became the name for  Oklahoma Territory, and it was officially approved in 1890, two years after the area was opened to white settlers. Formed by the combination of Oklahoma Territory and Indian  Territory on November 16, 1907, Oklahoma was the 46th state to  enter the union. Its residents are known as Oklahomans, and its capital and largest city is Oklahoma City. The state has 77 counties.

ARLY

It was north of Chandler 1939,

My granddad with the blue killer eyes

Hughie Earp reading by kerosene lamp light

A shoot'em-up dime-store western,

Much to the surprise of the brown-

Eyed farm lad come courting,

Later to be my father

And recall to me that scene

Glimpsed through an opening door,

And even then he not fooled by such

Display of weakness for the word

In this known hardshod

Horse trader who still had

The first nickel he'd ever made,

This pale-eyed reader

Rocklike in washed out overalls

Whose livestock had a new windmill

While Arly carried water

Up the hill and longed for town.

In the photo I have of them, made

From a discarded negative after Grandpa died,

Hughie looks straight into the lens,

Arly wears a black church-going hat,

Her gaze gone out grimly away from his.

Arly daily carried the water

For the kitchen and table and bath

Up a hundred-yard slope

Of red-clay rocky Lincoln County hill

Silently by hand.

I remember a Sunday once

With whoops and chants

She gathered up her skirts

And showed us how the Sac and Fox danced.

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Taken from "Oklahoma Elegies, Chronicles and Family History"

by Wayne Pounds

Avery, Oklahoma...An Oklahoma Ghost Town

This is an interesting link. Avery, OK was located south of Cushing and northwest of Stroud. Hughie and Arlie Earp lived there during their early marriage because their first son Ernie Earp was born there in 1917.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoPIscEZZjI