Dreams to Dust

On a fateful day in 1889, the Oklahoma land rush begins, and for thousands of settlers the future is up for grabs. One of those pioneers is Creed McReynolds, fresh from the East with a lawyer's education and a head full of ambition. Creed lands in Guthrie Station, the designated territorial capital, where he must prove that he is more than the mixed-blood kid once driven from his own land. In recounting the precipitous rise and catastrophic fall of the jerrybuilt city of Guthrie, author Sheldon Russell immerses us in the lives of Creed and other memorable characters whose aspirations ultimately helped tame the frontier--and whose fates hold lessons as important today as they were more than a hundred years ago. Like many others, Creed McReynolds is swept into the whirlwind of greed and deception. He becomes the wealthiest man in Oklahoma Territory--but at an unbearable cost to himself, the dreams of others, and the dignity of his mother's people, the Kiowas. Dreams to Dust takes readers back to early territorial days to tell the story of frontier men and women gambling everything to find their fortune on the southern plains.