Letter from T.W. Simerly - Texas County, Oklahoma Submitted by: glennt 18 Feb 2007 Return to Texas County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== Originally posted at: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GcB.2ACI/319 Maryville Times, (Blount Co. TN) Friday, May 3, 1907: A Letter From Oklahoma---I thought I would write a little of the past few years of my experience of life and the west. Perhaps it will interest someone who is trying to get a start in life. I left old Tennessee nine years ago with nothing and come to Guymon, Oklahoma, and began working on a cattle ranch. And I am proud to say that today that I am working for myself and have a good start, nor boasting of how I have gained in the last five or six years, but I say it because it might stir up some other young men and put them in business. I will say to anyone who is working to get a start in life that Oklahoma is the place to come to. I have been to several different places, but this country surpasses them all. Although I am proud of my native home, Tennessee, and think it is a fine place, but it isn’t the place to get a start. I am needing some help awful bad, as work is so far behind, and if some of you good boys that is well acquainted with me and would like to get a start in life will come out, I will pay you good wages and give you work just as long as you want to stay. I will pay from $20 to $25 per month and will help you get land, and will buy any 160 acres of deeded land and will pay $250. I would like to have Long Hollow Bill out here to herd cattle for me. I know from all reports that he would make a good cowboy. This is also a good wheat country. I think in a few more years it will be the grandest farming country in history. Well, I will close for fear I will not see this in print. I am a reader of the Times, and letters from old friends is sure a treat to me. Though perhaps this would be a treat to someone who is wanting to come to a new country. So hoping to benefit someone with this letter, I will close by wishing the Times and all of the readers a long and prosperous life. I am yours respectfully. ---T.W. Simerly. P.S. If anyone who should read this and want to know my reputation, apply to Mr. C.A. Hitch or the Beaver Co. Bank, Guymon, Okalhoma. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Texas County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html