The Salt of the earth
By: edited by Bernadette Pruitt.
Contributors: Pruitt, Bernadette.
Publisher: Evans Publications
Published: 1988
Place of publication: Perkins, Okla
Language: eng
Number of pages: 63
Subjects: Oklahoma -- History -- Personal narratives.
Notes: "Profiles of 15 Oklahomans who are the last link to another time"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: CONTENTS; title: Dennis King; title: A STITCH IN TIME………………………………………………….………….	Page 1; title: Ray Sherman, 62, is a custom tailor in an off-the-rack world.; title: THE DRUGGIST’S APPRENTICE……………………………………………...	Page 5; title: Al Musick, 95, still “piddles” in the business he learned by apprenticeship.; title: DATELINE: PINHOOK CORNER………………………………………………   Page 8; title: Eula Yandell, 75, writes a country newspaper column the way she speaks – in; title: quaint and fading rural dialect.; title: Ken Jackson; title: THE LAST HURRAH……………………………………………………………  Page 11; title: A World War I honor guard reaches the end of the line.; title: Randy Pruitt; title: ALWAYS A FARMER………………………………………………………..…  Page15; title: Bruce Campbell, 75, one of the “Okies” who inspired The Grapes of Wrath,; title: still plows the earth with mules.; title: SILENT DRUMS………………………………………………………………..   Page 19; title: Robert Whitebird, 74, is the last living pureblood Quapaw male.; title: THAT OLD-TIME RELIGION…………………………………………………    Page 24; title: Sister Rita Washington, 67, a tent revival evangelist, preaches messages; title: of healing and deliverance.; title: Doug Hicks; title: BORN TO WORK……………………………………………………………….   Page 25; title: At 90, Virgie White is still waiting tables.; title: Bernadette Pruitt; title: MINDING THE STORE………………………………………………….……     Page 35; title: Thomas Jefferson Dunlap, 90, helps run a country store in an age of QuikTrips; title: and Safeway Super Stores.; title: THE HOMECOMING………………………………………………………….    Page 39; title: Willie Haley, 90-year-old mother of 14, is a gentle symbol of mothers past.; title: STILL SHINING AT 80………………………………………………………….  Page 42; title: Jimmy Kitchens continues his lifetime livelihood – shining shoes.; title: MISS ALMA AND THE WHITE APPOLOOSA………………………………..  Page 45; title: Alma Alton Forrester, an 87-year-old horsewoman, lives the independent; title: lifestyle of turn-of-the-century Oklahoma.; title: Jim Etter; title: A LONE COWHAND…………………………………………………………..    Page 49; title: Paul Davis, 58, rides the range in the tradition of America’s all-but-vanishing; title: folk hero.; title: ‘JUST A COUNTRY DOCTOR’……………………………………………….    Page 53; title: Dr. Ralph Walker still makes house calls at the age of 81.; title: ‘CATCHIN’ BABIES’…………………………………………………………..   Page 57; title: Arvena Collier is one of the last of the “granny” midwives.