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(More customer reviews)This is a profile of the frontier woman---the biography of Delphia Eliza Odell Reoh and her journey from Kansas to Oklahoma in a covered wagon. Delphia's husband was chosen by her mother, and she struggled with tubuculosis. This book chronicles her wild ride in the Oklahoma Land Rush, and encounter with a mad dog. Frontier women struggled with birth, death and bed bugs while establshing a home.They settled in Spokogee--- present-day Dustin. Delphia bore eight children and lost three before they reached adulthood.Delphia's last journey took her to the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas, near present-day Raymondville, where she and her husband established a farm. All are buried in the Raymondville cemetery, but the name endures in the Valley.
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A true story of my grandmother and her journey from Kansas and Oklahoma by wagon,to the settling of a farm in South Texas. Hardships, sickness and death rode with her and a lonely prairie wind carried the sound of the mournful howl of wolves on the prowl,
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