β Scribed by Tim Tingle
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"The hour has come to speak of troubled times. It is time we spoke of Skullyville." Thus begins the House of Purple Cedar , Rose Goode's telling of the year when she was eleven in Indian country, Oklahoma. The Indian schools boys and girls had been burned, stores too. By the time the railroad came, all of Skullyville had been burned.
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