Article illustrates the life and entrepreneurship of Kate E. May, a single woman who brought eight children with her when she homesteaded her section of the Cherokee Strip during the land run, and the struggles she and her family faced.
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Article illustrates the life and entrepreneurship of Kate E. May, a single woman who brought eight children with her when she homesteaded her section of the Cherokee Strip during the land run, and the struggles she and her family faced.
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22 p. : ill.
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Abstract: Kate E. May, a single woman with eight children, made the land run of 1893, then carved a home from the soil of the Cherokee Strip. Henry Kilian Goetz describes her adventure from the decision to make the run to the sorrowful abandonment of the claim.
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