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Old Greer County
Article describes the journey of the E. M. DeBerry family from Texas to Old Greer County and their life on the frontier. Author Annie Laurie Steele includes an account by her aunt, Miss Rosabel DeBerry, about hunting, cooking, taking care of livestock, and housing visitors in their pioneer home.
Date:
Spring 1964
Creator:
Steele, Annie Laurie
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
My Pioneer Home in Old Greer County
Article describes the author's experiences traveling to and growing up in old Greer County. Laressa Cox McBurney describes the wagon journey, the type of pioneer home they had, neighbors, mail, and school on the frontier.
Date:
Spring 1964
Creator:
McBurney, Laressa Cox
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Altus on the Hill Above Frazer in Old Greer County
Article provides context to the recollections of the author's grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Rogers, who was a survivor of the flood at Frazer in Old Greer County that resulted in the founding of Altus, Oklahoma.
Date:
Winter 1962
Creator:
Shelton, Barbara Kay
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
From the Brazos to the North Fork: The Autobiography of Otto Koeltzow, Part One
Article provides and introduction to and includes an excerpt of the autobiography of Otto Koeltzow, a migrant from Germany who homesteaded Greer County, Oklahoma Territory and weathered many difficulties to establish a community there.
Date:
Summer 1962
Creator:
Gibson, Arrell M.
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
A Pioneer Family in Old Greer County
Article discusses the life of the Chitwood family on the Oklahoma frontier in Greer County. Adelia Clifton's adapted version of Maggie Chitwood Kilpatrick's manuscript includes stories cattle herding, conditions in the dugout house they lived in, and early education.
Date:
Summer 1961
Creator:
Clifton, Adelia
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History