Neal Evans and Ben Clark built their lives on the rugged landscape of western Oklahoma—Evans as a storekeeper and Clark as a guide. John Truden uses the lives of the Evans and Clark families to demonstrate evolving systems of racial discrimination in the emerging state.

Truden, John. The Evans and Clark Families: Borderlands Legacies in Western Oklahoma, 1875-1950. Chronicles of Oklahoma 96, no. 2 (2018): 178-201. https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2017441/

John Truden is the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Native American and Indigenous Studies, Center for the Futures of Native Peoples at Dickinson College.

For more information on the published version and access to the full article, visit The Gateway to Oklahoma History's Website. https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc2017441/

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