Description If you\'ve ever wondered what the American West was really like, the lives of the six Berry Brothers in Oklahoma Indian Territory has the answers to your questions.
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This was my part in this work.
I felt Oklahoma\'s hiStory needed to be folded into the Berry Brother\'s stories.
As I began typing I realized the value of the work Mother had done.
When the family pressed her, for publication, she came to me and asked me to get it ready to publish.
She collected these stories just as others collect stamps, or butterflies.
These were first hand experiences from the men who had lived this era of history.
Coming from a family of writers, she gathered their stories and filed them away.
She was a New York city girl and her new relations fascinated her.
She had joined the Berry family with the marriage to my father, in 1941.
Keep in mind there were no computers during my mother\'s early era.
Some scroll sections were over twenty feet long.
When Mother wanted to rearrange the order, she cut the sections apart and pinned them together in the order she felt best, then rolled them up in a scroll.
There were sections of manuscript that had been cut apart and then pinned together, literally with straight pins.
After consenting I was given a steamer trunk of hand-written manuscript.
It was early in the year 1989 that my mother, Camelia Uzzell Berry, asked if I would type her Family HiStory manuscript about the Berry Brothers.
Their biographies, letters, and memories describe the west as it was.
Their lives tell the Story of early Oklahoma.
Their lives tell the stories of the land runs, the lawlessness, the cattle, the Indians, the dangers, the failures, and the discovery of oil.
It was amid the Five Civilized Tribes they made their homes and raised their families.
After the ravages of the Civil War they came west and established the first trading post in Indian Territory.
Well over a hundred years ago these young men rode into Indian Territory to settle among the Indians.
Description If you\'ve ever wondered what the American West was really like, the lives of the six Berry Brothers in Oklahoma Indian Territory has the answers to your questions
