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Subject(s)

• Rector, Sarah 1902-1967—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• African American women—Oklahoma—Creek County—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• African Americans—Oklahoma—Creek County—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Women millionaires—Oklahoma—Creek County—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Millionaires—Oklahoma—Creek County—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Creek Indians—Oklahoma—Creek County—Biography—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Petroleum industry and trade—Oklahoma—History—20th century—Juvenile literature [Browse]
• Creek County (Okla.)—Biography [Browse]
• Indigenous Studies [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Biographies [Browse]

Summary note

Recounts the story of the 1914 disappearance of eleven-year-old Sarah Rector, an African American who was part of the Creek Indian people and whose land had made her wealthy, and what it reveals about race, money, and American society.

Notes

Schomburg copy with dust jacket.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-67) and index.

Contents

• 160 acres
• Three and a half dollars an acre
• Twelve and a half percent
• One million dollars.

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ISBN

• 9781419708466 (hbk.)
• 1419708465 (hbk.)

LCCN

2012039254

OCLC

813690939

RCP

N - O

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