Oklahoma Blackjacker

This book is an autobiography of the 1971 Oklahoma Teacher of the Year. He details life in Oklahoma from when he was born in 1907, the year Oklahoma became a state and continues through his retirement as a teacher. The cover of the book is a photograph of his father's farm gate. The windmill pumped water from a hand dug, rock lined well that never went dry during the dust bowl. The early stories of how things were done when a mule team was the power of choice for farming, hauling wagons, an...