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Homesteading in Roger Mills County: The Wilcox Family (open access)

Homesteading in Roger Mills County: The Wilcox Family

Article explores the struggles faced by the Wilcox family who homesteaded land in Roger Mills County through excerpts of family memoirs and correspondence. Margaret E. Brown also provides a wider context to the difficult economic and weather conditions farmers in 1900s Oklahoma faced.
Date: Summer 1995
Creator: Brown, Margaret E.
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History