In August 1940, Flora Robertson spoke to journalists from a migrant camp in California about her old home in Oklahoma.

She had come to Oklahoma Territory as a child in 1904, traveling from Arkansas with her family in a covered wagon.

‘When we first went there, we lived in a little log cabin.

In those days, we would start our crop and sometimes, why the horse thieves would come through.

They was pretty bad then, there was a lot of horse thieves.

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