“It’s strange indeed how memories can lie dormant in a man’s mind for so many years. Yet those memories can be awakened and brought forth fresh and new, just by something you’ve seen, or something you’ve heard, or the sight of an old familiar face.”— Wilson Rawls, *Where the Red Fern Grows* Beloved sister, wife, mother, and grandmother, Martha Grace Horrocks Brennan—known always as Martie—was born in the very small town of Putnam, Oklahoma, on July 28, 1936. She was a child of the Dust Bowl. Her parents were Lela Maggie Brown and Howard Ellis Horrocks, and she was one of four children: older...