Doing Business on the Oklahoma Land Rush Frontier
Publisher: The Fowble Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: 3217 S. Thomas Street, Visalia, CA 93292
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
Description: A history of the businesses once active at Hoffman town site in Okmulgee County (formerly McIntosh County), Oklahoma, documented by photographs of many businesses, several hundred former residents, various documents, and records of key events. The book is 496 pages long, hard bound in brown, and gold-lettered on the spine.
Table of contents: title: I  	THE LURE OF THE LAND; title: II  	THE INDIAN TERRITORY PERIOD; title: Resettlement of the Creek Indians Near Hoffman; title: The Great Land Rush Opportunity; title: Assimilation of the Creek Indians; title: III  	DOING BUSINESS ON THE LAND RUSH FRONTIER; title: Introduction; title: Arrival of the Railroad Companies; title: Land Developers and Speculators; title: Banking Companies and Financiers; title: Postal, Telephone and Newspaper Service; title: Public Buildings and Services; title: Public Schooling; title: Churches and Clergymen; title: Hotels, Restaurants and Leasable Business Space; title: Farming and Ranching; title: Lumberyards and Sawmills; title: General Merchandisers, Dry Goods Stores and Grocers; title: Barbershops, Honkytonks and Pool Halls; title: Blacksmiths, Liverymen, Draymen and Mechanics; title: Physicians and Druggists; title: IV	HOFFMAN THROUGH THE YEARS; title: V	THE YEARS OF TOWNSITE DECLINE; title: Introduction; title: The Great Depression of the 1930s; title: The Dust Bowl Period; title: The Mechanization of Agriculture; title: The Closing of State Highway 266; title: Segregation and the Loss of Access to Public Schooling; title: The Death of Charlie Lackey; title: Structural Fires and the Tornado of 1960; title: The Bitter End; title: VI	THE OKIE MIGRATION; title: VII	THE DEATH OF HOFFMAN TOWNSITE; title: VIII	THE REBIRTH OF HOFFMAN; title: References; title: Index