[TornadoAlley3]

Warren’s family came to Oklahoma at the end the 19th century, part of the land rush that preceded statehood.

Her grandmother, Hannie Crawford Reed, who had already lost her own mother, drove a horse-drawn wagon from Missouri to the territory at the age of 13, according to family lore. Hannie’s father rode ahead on a horse.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2012/02/12/girl-who-soared-but-longed-belong/rx59B8AcqsZokclyJXkg7I/story.html

[Little Bill]

The forage must have been better in the 1890’s than when my family went West in the late 1840’s in an Ox train, horses couldn't eat the grass. Then everyone walked, except those women that just dropped a kid. The death rate was about one in fifteen.