The overnight birth of Guthrie, Oklahoma, and the ambitious dreamers who helped deliver it, are at the heart of this tale by an author who can turn a gritty phrase into poetry. The multitude of characters who weave their way throughout this story are presented with all the failings of those who rush to the opening of free land anywhere. Almost depressing in its portrayal of the crudeness and realities of life with lawyers, newspapermen, land-grabbers, whores, murderers, thieves, Indians, blacks
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