Miss Charity Comes to Stay

Set in the Cherokee Strip during the land run on 1893, this is a story ostensibly written by Betsy, a lively and sometimes over-inventive little girl. Her determination to keep Miss Charity, the one-room-school teacher, where she is, and not embarked on such a silly business as matrimony, almost has dire repercussions, until love and grown-up practicality intervene. The story is filled with domestic event and historical detail.