Wetumka

About the Book

This book will appeal to the thousands of people who have lived in or near Wetumka and to many of them still living there. It authoritatively traces the beginning of a small town in Oklahoma from the hectic events leading up to Statehood, to its contributions and suffering in two World and Korea. The reader will recognize all of the actors who were real people in a very real place. This, in essence, is the way people survived in good times and bad, in droughts and floods, crop failures and epidemics and all the unexpected disasters and triumphs.

About the Author

B. J. Osborn is Bill to his classmates and Joe to his family; to his earliest acquaintances he is known as Billy Joe. He's also known as a professional educator and historian, a man who has pursued history at the University of Oklahoma and the University of California, at Berkeley and Santa Barbara, and at Worchester College, Oxford, and at other far flung places. The past is what he knows best. It was thrilling to read and report on thousands of pages of public documents that date from the time of the events they describe in and around Wetumka. Mr. Osborn, now retired, lives with his wife, Judy, in Modesto and Twain Harte, California. Their daughter, Toni, is to be married in a few months.