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Parker, Harry Manuscript Collection

Coverage: 
1876–1937
Source: 
Papers, .10 foot

Description
Cattleman. The autobiography (1876–1937) of Harry Parker, an Oklahoma cattleman, in which he relates his family’s migration to No Man’s Land (the Oklahoma panhandle area) in 1887, describing the towns, people, and the style and standard of living in that region before it became a part of Oklahoma Territory. Included in the autobiography is an account of an immigrant family who killed several people before being caught.