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    1. Re: [BRE] Oklahoma Land Rush
    2. Merle Rummel
    3. My Grandfather, William H. Hendricks, Jr., made the OK Land rush in 1893, he came by horse back and walking from Bancroft, Daviess Co., MO. ************* Way back when - I was in High School (Centreville MI), an elderly neighbor told me of his youth. He had been a "Sooner" - crossed into Oklahoma before the Land Rush. He settled on a nice piece of land - but got "foot-loose" - left it and went to California. Some time later, he returned - to find "His Land" covered with Oil Wells. Up there in Michigan, on the "other farm" - the windows were "the windows of Sears original building" - from Chicago (he said). And I just loved to go to his garage - he had an old Knights Car - with the round pipe bumpers - and wheels as high as my waist. Merle

    12/23/2013 12:56:45