Don't Never Be Afraid of Your Horses Oklahoma Hall of Fame Benjamin Vaughan wrote back:

Benjamin Vaughan wrote back:

Larry Derryberry was a pint-sized 4-H Club boy who grew up on a red dirt tenant cotton farm in southwest Oklahoma and went on to change the entire political landscape of Oklahoma

a single mother working in Dallas

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Don't Never Be Afraid of Your Horses Oklahoma Hall of Fame Benjamin Vaughan wrote back:By Mike Larsen Award winning artist Mike Larsen split his early years between his grandparents home in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, a hospital in Luling, Texas, and Amarillo, Texas. With an absentee father, a single mother working in Dallas, Texas, to make a living for she and her young son, and stricken with Polio, it would have been easy to understand had Larsen decided to simply give up. However, giving up was not in Larsens genes, nor those of his family.