Lida Murry Smith

By Bobby Everett Smith

My grandparents moved from Missouri to Texas in 1905 in covered wagons. Lida and Andrew J Smith, two boys and eight girls, the youngest, 6 and the oldest, 22. They sold their farm in Missouri and moved by three covered wagons with the kids, three dogs, two pigs, two cows and six horses. The trip took 7 weeks, and they were attacked by Indians in Oklahoma. The twin 14-year-old girls were kidnapped and raped, and the family ran through a tornado. Lida, nonetheless, spent her time taking care of the family and advocating for women’s suffrage which did not pass until 1920 with the 19th Constitutional Amendment.

They were all Baptists and deeply religious, and the teenage girls were all looking for boys much of the time. My dad, one of the brothers, worked in a store called Doan’s Crossing just over the border in Northern Texas, about 10 miles from Vernon. Doan’s was on the Chisolm Trail and served over two million cattle and the cowboys who herded them from Texas to market in Missouri. Lida is the hero of the book, working on the farms and raising a family of ten kids while advocating for women’s rights. It’s a good story-- fiction, but based on real characters, my family and a real trip from Missouri to Texas. Full of drama, romance, and suspense, once you start reading, you won’t put it down.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bobby Everett Smith
• Release date: Feb 13, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463208717

Bobby Everett Smith

Bobby Everett Smith www.bobsmithsblog.comBobby Everett Smith is an American author of fiction and non-fiction essays, short stories and novels, and the publisher of the blog bobsmithsblog.com.Born and raised in Wichita Falls, Texas, Smith earned a degree in Economics from Rice University and an MBA from the University of Washington. Primarily during the Cold War, he served as an aviator in the U.S. Navy. His tours in East and Southeast Asia are inspiration for many of his works, taking the reader vicariously along for his adventurous rides, launched from aircraft carriers in the 7th Fleet.Fueled by his own leadership experiences in the U.S. Navy and the private sector, Smith has become passionate and knowledgeable about our nation’s leaders. In nearly a dozen summaries of great presidential biographies, he examines the lives, achievements and legacies of these important political figures.Smith’s most recent novel, Lida Murry Smith, was inspired by his own family history. Set in the backdrop of the women’s suffrage movement, it traces the arduous and courageous 1905 fictional journey of the Smith family from their farm in Missouri, through the Indian Territories and Oklahoma to a new farm in Texas.For access to these and other works of Bobby Everett Smith, visit:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/744702

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