Salt of the Red Earth: A Century of Wit and Wisdom from Oklahoma's Elders

Salt of the Red Earth: A Century of Wit and Wisdom from Oklahoma's Elders by M. J. Alexander. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781885596598.

Alexander has found gold inthe hills and plains of Oklahoma with a portfolio of 100 luminous portraits of elders born in or before 1907. The Centenarians within these pages radiate beauty and strength, grit and grace, showing 100 different ways to be 100. Their copper-washed portraits are elegant in their simplicity. Alexander traveled nearly 4,000 miles of Oklahomas highways, main streets, and dirt roads. Along the wasy, she discovered Americas last pioneers including Trail of Tears descendants, a World War I widow, Land Run children born in sod houses, squatters cabins and dugouts, early pilots, wildcatters, and Dust Bowl farmers.