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Short, Maggie Manuscript Collection

Coverage: 
2007
Source: 
Printed materials, .10 foot

Description
Homemaker. Printed family history of Maggie Short, titled Maggie and Her Family: True Story of a Courageous Oklahoma Woman before and after Statehood (2007). Includes a paper copy in a binder and a compact disk copy. The family history describes the life of Maggie Short who was born in Arkansas in 1885 and lived much of her life in Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Her husband George W. Maxwell was killed by the outlaw Davis-Starr gang in 1911. The account includes brief descriptions of Short’s several marriages and of hardships of life in early Oklahoma.