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Laune, Seigniora Russell, Woodward (Okla.)--Biography, Woodward (Okla.)--Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New, Southwest, New--History--1848-
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1986
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F704.W66L384 1986eb
ddc
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976.6/19
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Laune, Seigniora Russell, Woodward (Okla.)--Biography, Woodward (Okla.)--Social life and customs, Frontier and pioneer life--Southwest, New, Southwest, New--History--1848-
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Sand in My Eyes
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Seigniora Russell Laune in 1948. Photograph by Arthur Hawkins
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Sand in My Eyes
By Seigniora Russell Laune
Illustrated by Paul Laune
Foreword by Anne Hodges Morgan
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS NORMAN AND LONDON
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Laune, Seigniora Russell. Sand in my eyes.
1. Laune, Seigniora Russell. 2. Woodward (Okla.)Biography. 3. Wood ward (Okla.)Social life and customs. 4. Frontier and pioneer lifeSouth west, New. 5. Southwest, NewHistory1848-. I. Title.
F704.W66L384 1986 976.6'9 86-40089
ISBN 0-8061-2016-9
Copyright 1956 by Seigniora Russell Laune, assigned 1985 to the University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Publishing Division of the University. New edition copyright 1986 by the University of Oklahoma Press. Manufactured in the U.S.A. First printing of the University of Oklahoma Press edition, 1986.
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Contents
Foreword,
by Anne Hodges Morgan
3
1 Oh, Oh, Pioneers
9
2 Texas Society and Schoolteaching
26
3 Romance
36
4 Honeymoon
53
5 Ends and Beginnings
87
6 Musical Comedy War
107
7 Woodward, Oklahoma Territory
115
8 Water and Other Weather
133
9 Clubs and I
145
10 So Much Good in the Worstand Vice Versa
155
11 Progress on All Fronts
167
12 Horses and Other Critters
181
13 Some Two-Legged Animals
189
14 You Can't Keep a Good Town Down
205
15 Business Interests: Various
214
16 Events Foreseen and Unforeseen
227
17 So to the End
245
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Foreword
By Anne Hodges Morgan
When Seigniora Russell Laune wrote about her experiences as a wife and mother living in western Oklahoma, she was in her late seventies looking back to a time when both she and the territory were young. Her recollections, which create a compelling narrative of the details of daily life and the challenges of town building on the frontier, were originally published in 1956. Mrs. Laune's memoir was well received and widely read. Lon Tinkle, in a review in the New York Times, praised the book as an honest, detailed portrait of Oklahoma's growth. It was, he wrote, free of "sentimentality, false comedy or heroics."1
Now, three decades later, Sand in My Eyes is published for the third time, a tribute to the enduring quality of the historical record.
Seigniora Russell was a pampered, fifteen-year-old Little Rock belle when her father's ill health caused the family to move to Collingsworth County in the Texas Panhandle. There in the dry climate of the high plains, her father, a former school teacher, hoped to make his fortune as a farmer and stockraiser while regaining his health.
Life on a Texas ranch was a major adjustment for the Russell household. In Arkansas there had been the ever-present black domestic help to prepare the meals, clean the house, tend to the yard and laundry, and run errands.
In the Texas Panhandle every family member worked from dawn to dusk to wrest a living from the thin soil and the unpredictable climate. Never having lived more than two blocks from a corner grocery, the Russells suddenly faced the terrifying prospect of literally
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