Faith's harvest
Subtitle: Mennonite identity in northwest Oklahoma
By: Sharon Hartin Iorio.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Norman
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Mennonites -- Oklahoma -- History.; Group identity -- Oklahoma -- Case studies.
Description: In 1893 hundreds of German-speaking Mennonites (many of them Russian immigrants) joined the land rush into Oklahoma's Cherokee Outlet. Entering from Kansas, they claimed 160-acre parcels and established a life-style of work, thrift, and self-denial to separate themselves from worldly society. Sharon Hartin Iorio chronicles the transition of these people and their descendants into mainstream America.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-308) and index.