Sanford Deering wants to join others on that fateful day of the first Oklahoma land run in 1889. His pregnant wife, Nora, doesn't want him to go. He finds out four months after the land run there is still parcels available. He convinces Nora's parents to go and she relents. Find out what price Sanford paid for his claim.

This is the first in a trilogy. The Late Sooner's Daughter follows Sanford's daughter into Missouri in the early 1900s. The third, Hard Times in the Heartland takes the family through the Depression and WW II. It will be out in the fall of 2016.