title: Oklahoma Prairie Tales: Mostly True Stories My Grandma Told Me
author: Kelly Poland
description: Author Kelly Poland's childhood passion for reading grew into a lifetime of scouting library shelves for her favorite books. She finally tried her hand at writing one after thirty successful years in business. Kelly lives in Jones, Oklahoma, near the prairie where former generations of her family first turned the sod, once upon a time, in the bygone days of the Oklahoma Territory.
zlib_text: **Jim Thompson**
  
   **Cropper's Cabin**
  
   **1**
  
   **It was almost dusk, and I knew that meant she'd be waiting for me, her car
  hidden under the thick willows, waiting just like she had been all along. It
  was a swell setup.**
  
   **Her name was Donna. She was one-fourth Indian and three-fourths white, and
  that's a blood mixture that's hard to beat if you're breeding for beauty. She
  had the beauty, all right-and plenty more. She could also mean plenty of
  trouble, if anybody found out about us.**
  
   **I finished what I was doing and was beginning to feel that don't-give-a-
  god-darn crankiness that sneaks up on me when I get real hungry. You know.
  Maybe you get the same way. You almost hope that someone'll say something to
  you so you can jump down his throat.**
  
   **I put the papers in a folder marked**
  
   **Miss Trumbull (English Department) Burdock County,**
  
   **Oklahoma Consolidated School District**
  
   **and started to slide it into the top drawer of Miss Trumbull's desk.
  Somehow, one of the 