Wright Cemetery contains the bodies of the first settlers both white and black known to die in and around Chandler, the county seat of Lincoln County, Oklahoma. These people entered with the land rush of 1891, which opened the Kickapoo and the Sac and Fox lands to non-Indian settlement. They were all buried in Wright Cemetery (aka Chandler Cemetery) between 1891 and 1912. This book, based entirely on historical records, tells their stories. It will be accompanied by a series of poems called BELL COW BALLADS, which will offer a new Spoon River Anthology for the year 2020.