Excerpt from The Sooners: A Romance of Early Oklahoma<br><br>The train was loaded to the car roofs, every avail able seat and aisle being occupied and the platforms overflowing to the danger point.<br><br>The line Of cars stopped with creaks and groans; the engine's air pump beat violently like the heart Of an animate thing exhausted from dragging its human load that now emptied itself from every exit. Out Of the side doors Of box cars and from the roofs and from the platforms Of the coaches flowed the human tide as if it would be never ending.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.