Brooks & Dunn Were Reluctant Duo Partners at First - Taste of Country
"Brook Sondes' father came west in 1840 — this time seeking a home along the Kansas–Oklahoma river — and started working there with John "John 'The Bear'" Stewart-Otten and three relatives — Jesse, William and Isaac (whom were also later adopted), from Lawrence as indenturing overseers — whom Solles, also of Lawrence, soon joined up with for 1858. That's the earliest documented incident. (An 1867 account, "Racial Enclosure, Territory Settlement of Indian Tribes: Oklahoma City, Okla.'s First American Indian Settlement," claims one of his people joined up the team sometime afterward) Then there was Sondez' wife Mary Alice (aka, "Sarah" or "Sarah in Black" to relatives still in and around Chicago whose relatives were living among him when the brothers took their share.) In one, later documented detail about 1836, an editor writes; "His name was Samuel "Rodey-Smith," his middle name. The first time that we...