Red Dirt Women: At Home on the Oklahoma Plains Scott H. Hendrix We Thank Thee

We Thank Thee

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" - Jack Canfield

Publisher: Soho Teen

her fatherless five-year-old son in tow

Red Dirt Women: At Home on the Oklahoma Plains Scott H. Hendrix We Thank TheeFor many people who have never spent time in the state, Oklahoma conjures up a series of stereotypes: rugged cowboys, tipi dwelling American Indians, uneducated farmers. When women are pictured at all, they seem frozen in time: as the bonneted pioneer woman stoically enduring hardship or the bedraggled, gaunt faced mother familiar from Dust Bowl photographs. In Red Dirt Women, Susan Kates challenges these one dimensional characterizations by exploring