It was a wicked-looking knife given to her by a farmhand whom she had known on the Missouri farm where her father had worked before coming to seek his own land in Oklahoma.
"We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run"
James Arthur Kjelgaard
The same farmhand had also taught her the rest of her magic.
"We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run"
James Arthur Kjelgaard
Everything was left to commonsense, and therefore it is not surprising that the farmhand like the workingman in the mill has never hit upon the one method which is best, as all his instincts and natural tendencies had to lead him to the second or third best method, since these alone give immediate results.
"Psychology and Social Sanity"
Hugo Münsterberg