The Ledger in the Dust
The land had a number. It was written on the first page of a clothbound ledger kept in the top drawer of a pinewood desk in the front room of a farmhouse in Cimarron County, Oklahoma. The number was T-47-N-R-13-E, and it had been assigned by the General Land Office in 1907 when the territory became a state, and it identified one hundred and sixty acres of shortgrass prairie that had never...
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