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Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma
Date: December 11, 1937
Name: Oscar Douglas
Post Office: Oklahoma City , Oklahoma
Residence address: 1228 West Main St.
Date of Birth: March 20 1865
Place of Birth: Texas
Father: Tom Douglas
Information on Father: Born in Texas
Mother: Minnie Thrasher
Information on Mother: Born in Mississippi
Field Worker: Jimmie Birdwell
Vol. 26 Microfiche 6016891 #207

I came up from Texas in the late '80's. My wife and I drove pretty well all over Oklahoma in a wagon hunting some place to stop. The places we heard of ahead always looked the best. We would stop some place for a few months then move on. 

I worked with cattle out near Shattuck, picked cotton in the river bottom southeast of Muskogee and worked on a farm in Eastern Oklahoma, but we just got into the habit of moving and could not stop. We roamed over the state for almost ten years before we stopped and rented a small farm near Okmulgee. It was just a rough place, partly rocky, with a log house on it that had been built by some Indian in early times. Like most Indians they built a new log hut every time they wanted another room and each hut had a fireplace and even the barns were a number of small log houses instead of one large barn.

Submitted to OKGenWeb by Donald L. Sullivan <donald.l.sullivan@lmco.com> September, 2000.