Jane Wilson Sheppard, was three years old in 1917 when her family moved to Oklahoma.
Bright, Daughter and Editor.
Sally J.
She begins with the train trip west--our first glimpse into a bygone era.
I edited and rearranged her material more or less chronologically, and I changed two names, but the memories and the na ve child\'s voice are hers.
As Jane\'s three sisters moved into and out of her life, an undercurrent of dysfunction gradually swept her from the security of childhood in surprising directions.
By 1920, the family had moved to the fashionable new Buena Vista neighborhood in Tulsa near what Jane considered her forest along the Arkansas River.
The third, Wells, was in boarding school.
Two older daughters, Edwina and Pauline, were married.
He helped develop the Boynton Pool near Muskogee and by 1917 had settled his wife, Lydia; her mother; and Jane in Muskogee.
Sheppard, was a prominent attorney, landowner, and former state senator who came west with the early oil boom.
Her father, John A.
Jane was born in the family\'s Huntington mansion, Kenwood, which is still a showplace.
They were tended by black servants almost as though the family lived in the Deep South.
She and her two younger nephews Billy and Jack had adventures ranging from poignant to hilarious.
Most of her memories revolve around her Tulsa neighborhood near the Arkansas River and her "interesting" family, as one neighbor euphemistically described it.
She wrote about early oil fields and county fairs
Tulsa\'s landmarks, its race riot, and its riverside area
Oklahoma\'s 101 Ranch and Pawnee Bill; and her life inside a convent school.
As I read stories of her childhood, I realized how much history she included--history that should be shared and preserved.
Around seventy years later, she began writing anecdotes from her life.
Jane Wilson Sheppard, was three years old in 1917 when her family moved to Oklahoma
