| Author: | Donald Upham Reed | ISBN: | 9781469112893 |
| Publisher: | Xlibris US | Publication: | December 3, 1999 |
| Imprint: | Xlibris US | Language: | English |
| Author: | Donald Upham Reed |
| ISBN: | 9781469112893 |
| Publisher: | Xlibris US |
| Publication: | December 3, 1999 |
| Imprint: | Xlibris US |
| Language: | English |
DONALDS WORLD leads on a young boys trip to the top of the tallest building
between San Francisco and Los Angeles during the 1930s When he returned
home he climbed a 60-feet tree in his back yard to see from a distance where
he had been.
Who is this boy? The answer comes in chapter 2 -- from birth to his mothers
commitment to a state insane asylum. Thirty years would pass before she is
released under his care and gardianship.
Chapter 3 explores the family tree and adventures by those who made the
Oklahoma land rush of 1888 and their departure later because of crop failure.
It took Donalds great great grandfather 65 days in all kinds of weather to return
to Tennesee from Oklahoma. One can take the same trip today in less than 100
hours!
Mrs. C. Jackson arrives on the scene in Chapter 4 to take care of Donald and his
older brother, Stanley. Donald didnt know until she died many years later that her middle name was Charity.
The headline for Chapter 6 is The White Avenue Gang. Donald recalls being
only a bystander when the rich kid was tied to a church tree on White Avenue
and one of his captures rode the boys red and white motor-bike around the
block. He and his brother looked like the Balkan who assassinated Archduke
Ferdinand to start World War I.
Elsewere the book involves Donalds school days, summer work in the Sierra
before joining the Navy and being saved by bombs that crushed two Japanese
cities. He cast his first vote for Harry Truman. After that his presidential votes
went only to Republicans. During college Marcia and Don where married
before their sophomore year. After graduation Don joined UP and 34 year
career followed by 10 years as a journalism professor at Oklahoma State
University. He retired in 1994 and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
7543 S. 70th East Ave, Tulsa, Ok 74133 918 494-3634 E-mail dreed@aol.com
DONALDS WORLD leads on a young boys trip to the top of the tallest building
between San Francisco and Los Angeles during the 1930s When he returned
home he climbed a 60-feet tree in his back yard to see from a distance where
he had been.
Who is this boy? The answer comes in chapter 2 -- from birth to his mothers
commitment to a state insane asylum. Thirty years would pass before she is
released under his care and gardianship.
Chapter 3 explores the family tree and adventures by those who made the
Oklahoma land rush of 1888 and their departure later because of crop failure.
It took Donalds great great grandfather 65 days in all kinds of weather to return
to Tennesee from Oklahoma. One can take the same trip today in less than 100
hours!
Mrs. C. Jackson arrives on the scene in Chapter 4 to take care of Donald and his
older brother, Stanley. Donald didnt know until she died many years later that her middle name was Charity.
The headline for Chapter 6 is The White Avenue Gang. Donald recalls being
only a bystander when the rich kid was tied to a church tree on White Avenue
and one of his captures rode the boys red and white motor-bike around the
block. He and his brother looked like the Balkan who assassinated Archduke
Ferdinand to start World War I.
Elsewere the book involves Donalds school days, summer work in the Sierra
before joining the Navy and being saved by bombs that crushed two Japanese
cities. He cast his first vote for Harry Truman. After that his presidential votes
went only to Republicans. During college Marcia and Don where married
before their sophomore year. After graduation Don joined UP and 34 year
career followed by 10 years as a journalism professor at Oklahoma State
University. He retired in 1994 and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
7543 S. 70th East Ave, Tulsa, Ok 74133 918 494-3634 E-mail dreed@aol.com
