This book will appeal to the thousands of people who have lived in or near Wetumka and to many of them still living there. It authoritatively traces the beginning of a small town in Oklahoma from the hectic events leading up to Statehood, to its contributions and suffering in two World and Korea. The reader will recognize all of the actors who were real people in a very real place. This, in essence, is the way people survived in good times and bad, in droughts and floods, crop failures and epidemics and all the unexpected disasters and triumphs.