This colourful chronicle of pioneering experience emerges from Virginia Stumbough's priceless collection of family letters, diaries, scrapbooks, albums, and oral history. Mrs Stumbough, who was born shortly after Oklahoma Territory achieved statehood, treats us to a wealth of family and personal recollections of the region. Now a great-grandmother, she lives in Boise, Idaho.
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Stumbough's anecdotes about her kin read like a chat with a cherished friend. There are tales of esteemed folk, like Ambassador Joseph Hodges Choate, and blackguards, such as bigamist William Hugh Lothian. Stumbough describes her work as "a book of American history in the making." It stretches from Lord Admiral John Hawkins, founder of the slave trade in England, to her own daughter, a pioneer in the field of aviation. Stumbough hasn't written this collection to crow over the achievements of her family and forebears, for she says, "There isn't a reader of this book who isn't related in some degree to the writer and all of the people mentioned above, as well as countless other interesting persons." She makes a bit of family research sound like a good idea. Denise Perry Donavin
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