01706cam a2200277 4500 165918174 TxAuBib 20131003120000.0 ||||||s2006||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780806137216 0806137215 (OCoLC)61228807 TxAuBib Russell, Sheldon. Dreams To Dust : A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush / By Sheldon Russell. 2006 Hardcover Edition. Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. 283. On a fateful day in 1889, the Oklahoma land rush begins, and for thousands of settlers the future is up for grabs. One of those people is Creed McReynolds, fresh from the East with a lawyer's education and a head full of aspirations. The mixed-blood son of a Kiowa mother and a U.S. Cavalry doctor, Creed lands in Guthrie station, the designated Territorial Capital, where he must prove that he is more than the half-blood kid once driven from his own land. In recounting the precipitous rise and catastrophic fall of the jerrybuilt city of Gurhtie, author Sheldon Russell immerses us in the lives of Creed and other memorable characters whose ambitions echo the taming of the frontier - and whose fates hold lessons as important today as they were more than a hundred years ago. 20131003. Oklahoma - History - Land Rush, 1889 - Fiction. Indians of North America - Fiction. Racially Mixed People - Fiction. Newspaper Publishing - Fiction. TXBAY