Chapter 23

Fort Smith, Arkansas

October 12, 1883

When Eli, Duncan and Moses rode into Fort Smith, they went straight to the courthouse to tell Judge Parker about the flash flood, and finding no rustlers.

Before they even got upstairs to his chambers, they were met by Jefferson, and told of a jailbreak.

“Eli, it was that Larry Parkins kid, the one who hit Duncan. He was in the cell with L.W. Ward and Clyde Pickens, the ones you brought in from down toward Fort Towson when we got Kia, Michi, Lorene and Corrine. I was told there was one more with them, but I don’t know who that was. I’m not even sure he was a prisoner here, from what the jailers said.”

“When did they break out, Jefferson, and how did they manage to do that?”

“It was yesterday, when they were being fed. They jumped the guards and took their guns and keys.”

“Jefferson, you tell Judge Parker there was a flash flood out there where we went and we never even found a sign of cows or rustlers. I’ll talk to you later...

“I got a bad feelin all of a sudden.”

“What’s wrong, Eli, what do you mean?” Jefferson asked as Eli ran out the front door, shoving people aside, Duncan and Moses were right behind him.

“Eli, what’s wrong?” Duncan asked as they mounted their horses.

“I got a bad feelin’, Duncan. Come on and let’s get home and check on the family. There was a jailbreak, four men are loose,” he yelled as they raced away from the courthouse, down an alley and across yards and open fields.

When they turned up the gravel river road, they didn’t see anyone in the yard and Eli was even more afraid something was wrong. They rode straight to the barn and tied their horses. Eli ran to the house and yelled as he leaped to the back porch. He opened the back door and no one was in the kitchen.

He yelled again and there was no answer.

Moses and Duncan met him at the back door when he ran out.

“There’s nobody in the house, something’s wrong. Scatter out and look around, I got a bad feelin’.”

Eli ran for the barn as Duncan ran toward the river, and Moses headed over to the gravel street where they’d built rent houses.

The two old nannies, the billy, and the younger goats that were grown now, were running wild in the goat pen. They were running into the fence and trying to jump over the top. The billy was running hard at the fence and trying to tear it down with his huge horns that curled around three times, up and over the back of his head.

Eli opened the gate and the goats ran right by him. Eli ran after them and Moses saw him running toward the backside of their property, following the goats. Just as Eli entered the woods right behind the goats, he saw Mary and Clarissa crying, bent over Little Duck, as she lay on the ground.

“Mary – CLARISSA!” he yelled.

Both Mary and Clarissa jumped up with Lilly Beth and ran to him, screaming and crying. He shook Mary to make her talk. She was too upset to even get the words out.

“Eli, they got Rose, Kia, and Michi ... they went that way. When Little Duck followed them here, they killed her. All the rest have gone after them. Catt, Eva, Bill, and Jack have guns. It was three of them, Eli, hurry,” Clarissa said as he stared down at Little Duck lying on the ground.

They heard gunshots deep in the woods and Eli left, run hard. He heard yelling and talking and saw the goats as they ran wild back and forth through the underbrush and trees, bleating, as if they were crying.

He saw Jack and Bill hunkered down near some trees, then he saw Catt and Eva kneeling over Tin Yu, she was bleeding from her side as she lay on the ground.

“ELI,” Eva yelled as she looked up and saw him – then Duncan and Moses running behind him.

“They shot Tin Yu, but Bill said she’ll be alright. Eli, they got Rose, Kia and Michi,” Eva cried.

He looked around to see all the other kids hunkered down with Adalee and Cadalee, scared and huddled together. Eli ran to them, counting heads as he ran. They were all there and his heart was pounding.

“DADDY,” Little Eli yelled as he and Ezra stood when they saw their daddy running to them.

He hunkered down with them and they swarmed him, crying.

Lee Yu grabbed her daddy around the neck and cried, “Daddy, the bad men shot Momma.”

“I know, Baby. Daddy will make them pay too. You stay here with Cadalee and Adalee.

“Where are they?” he asked.

“Over there, see where the goats are?” Little Eli said, pointing.

“Stay down, all of you. Duncan, you go that way, Moses you go out the other way and both of you work your way around to where they are. Be careful and don’t let them see you, they might start shootin’,” Eli said as he slipped away into the thick brush.

He heard a shot and saw one of the old nannies fall over, kicking and jerking. There were three more shots and Eli hurried through the brush, his knife in one hand, his .45 in the other.

He saw Rose sitting on the ground, blood on her dress as she held onto Kia and Michi. Both were naked and two men were trying to pull them away from Rose. Eli saw Larry Parkins swing his pistol to hit Rose. Eli shot him twice in his head, then ran toward the other two men as hard as he could run. They had Kia and Michi and were pulling them through the trees and brush.

“ELI,” Rose screamed as he ran to her.

“You alright, Rose?”

“I’m alright. Kill them, Eli. We caught them trying to rape the girls and they ran off with them. I got cut on my side, but I’m alright. Go kill them son-of-a-bitches, Eli.”

Eli jumped up and started through the brush. He saw Moses to his right and saw a white flash as the billy goat ran through the brush, head down, tearing brush and vines as he ran. There were two more shots and Eli saw the two men he’d captured down in the piney woods. They were hunkered down, each holding onto one of the naked girls.

“Let the girls go,” Eli said as he stood up so they could see him.

“There’s that sumbitch’n marshal. Shoot his stinkin’ ass,” one yelled as he whirled with his gun raised.

He had Kia held against his chest as he pointed his gun at Eli, grinning.

“Drop that gun or we’ll kill both these naked little girls. We told you not to fuck with us down there. You’re nothin’ but a stinkin’ no good Injun and now we’re gonna kill you and take these girls to raise for our own.”

Eli saw Moses closing in on the two men from the backside, he watched as Moses raised his pistol. He sure hoped he could see good enough to make a clean kill.

He looked to his left and saw Duncan. He had his Sharps rifle propped against a tree as he sighted through the scope. He saw the man grab for Kia as she jerked away for just a second.

Eli shot him in the head just as Duncan shot the back of the other man’s head with the .50 caliber rifle.

He ran toward the girls as they looked up to see him running toward them.

“DADDY,” they both screamed as they ran naked and barefoot through the briars and brush to meet him.

“You girls alright? Did they hurt you?” He asked, hoping they hadn’t suffered what his sister did years ago when she was young.

“We fought them, Daddy. We remembered what Aunt Rose told us and we fought and scratched and kicked. Daddy, they killed Little Duck,” Michi cried as they both hugged their naked bodies against him. Eli was sobbing so hard, he couldn’t talk as Rose and the others came to them.

He looked up to see Tin Yu standing near him. She was holding her hand over her side, bleeding through her fingers as she smiled down at him with Lee Yu holding onto her leg as she cried.

“Tin Yu, you alright?” he jumped up and grabbed her, picking Lee Yu up in his arms too.

“I alright, Eli, just little hole in side. Bullet almost miss me.”

With Tin Yu and Rose holding their sides and all the young’uns walking with them, they made their way back out to where Little Duck lay.

Mary saw them and ran to hold Kia and Michi as they all cried and sobbed over Little Duck. Clarissa and Mary were trying to console the young ones, but they were still too upset with all the violence.

Juni and Suh ran through the trees from toward the river and screamed when they saw Moses and Duncan.

“He got Sissy. He shot Joe and took Sissy,” Juni screamed as she and Suh held Pike and Isaac, sobbing.

“Who got her? Where’s Joe? Is he dead?” Eli stood and looked around.

“He went after Sissy when we hollered and told him the man had her. We saw him fall when the man shot at him, we don’t know if he’s dead or not,” Suh told him.

“Duncan, hurry over and get Doc Harrod. Moses, you get our horses and come back this way. Bill, you and Jack get Little Duck back to the house. The rest of you, get the kids back to the house and stay inside,” Eli said as he turned and ran to where Suh and Juni had pointed.

He ran close to a hundred yards through the pine trees before he saw Joe sitting up, holding his head where he was bleeding.

“Joe, you alright? Where’s Sissy?”

“Eli, I’m sorry I let Sissy get took. We was in the house and she went out to see about the kids. The man took her across that hill after he shot me. I just knew I was a goner, the way it was burnin’ after it knocked me to the ground.”

“The bullet scraped your head a good one, Joe, you better stay here. Moses will be by here in a minute.”

“Eli, I got to go with you, I got to know she’s safe.”

“You’ll have to follow me, Joe, I’m not slowin’ down for you,” Eli was already running.

Joe staggered to his feet, finally getting his legs under him. He saw Eli run through the trees and followed as fast as he could.

Eli heard Sissy cussing and yelling. He ran as hard as he could toward the sound.

He thought of Rose and the times he heard her scream and yell in the dark as the men raped her. He saw the man through the trees, he was pulling Sissy by her long hair as she bent forward, trying to hold back and kick at him as he pulled her.

It was Bear Sixkiller, the Comanche bad man.

Eli knew he should’ve killed that man the first time he ran upon him, he’d die now for sure.

Bear Sixkiller was pulling Sissy through a briar thicket, one arm up to push his way through the briars, as he pulled and jerked her along behind him. He felt a thorn rake across his throat and put his hand up to see how bad he was cut. He felt the blood running down his neck.

His fingers slipped into the deep gash. His throat was cut.

He looked up to see Marshal Eli Crow standing in front of him, his big knife covered in blood, as he stood grinning.

“This time, I’ll finish the job,” he said and sliced his throat across the other way as Sissy screamed his name.

“DADDY!”

She’d heard his voice and knew her daddy had come to rescue her once more.

Sissy fell to the ground as the man’s grip on her hair loosened. She rolled over to see Joe staggering through the brush, his gun in his hand, blood running down his face from a wound across his forehead. She ran to Joe and put her arm around him to hold him up.

With Sissy holding onto him, Joe staggered over to where the Comanche lay dead, his throat cut. He aimed his gun and shot him six times in his head and neck.

Eli and Sissy looked at each other, then looked at Joe, as he looked up at them when his gun was empty.

“Ain’t no man better touch my girl again, ever,” Joe cried, just as his knees buckled.

Sissy was bent over Joe, when she saw her daddy on the ground beside her. She looked over her shoulder and watched as Eli took the scalp from the Indian’s bloody head. He hooked the scalp on the point of his blade, stood up and flung it up into the trees above where the man lay.

Moses came through the trees, leading the horses and looked over to see Bear Sixkiller lying dead and scalped, his head full of bullet holes.

“Moses, throw me my rope and help Sissy get Joe on my horse. Sissy, you take Joe back to the house, Doc Harrod’s on the way. They killed Little Duck and shot Tin Yu, she’ll be alright though. They cut Rose on her side and she said she’d be alright.”

“Daddy, I want to marry Joe now. I don’t want to wait any longer,” Sissy said as she helped Joe to his feet.

“We’ll have the wedding as soon as we get all the others patched up. I want you and Joe to move on over to Tulsa. I got three cowhands there now, you ‘n Joe’ will like ‘em, they’re from Texas. As soon as we can all get healed and packed up, we’re all moving over there too.

“I’m done bein’ a marshal.”

Sissy hugged her daddy and mounted Moses’ horse as she led Eli’s horse through the trees with Joe slumped over in the saddle.

“Moses, help me drag this sumbitch down to the river. We’re gonna tie a big rock on him and make fish bait out of him.”

They tied the rope around his feet and with each of them holding an end of the rope, they pulled him down the hill toward the river.

Neither of them spoke as they tied a big flat rock to his chest, then tied another rock between his knees, pulling the rope as tight as they could. They rolled his body over the rock bluff into the fast moving waters of the Arkansas, and stood looking down, long after the Comanche’s body disappeared.

“Moses, I’m done.”

“You and Duncan can do whatever you want. I’m tellin’ Judge Parker tomorrow, and turnin’ my badge in,” Eli said as he stared down at the muddy, swirling water.

“I reckon I am too, Eli, this is more’n we hired on to do. It’s bad enough out there in the Territory, but when it comes home with us like this, I don’t reckon I could go back out and leave Suh and Pike alone after this.”

“Me either. We’ll get our family patched up and have a talk with all of ‘em. We’ll get Little Duck buried and move on up there now. If they want us to still marshal some, they can send us a telegram about it and we’ll work out of Tulsa, or they can have it all. I don’t really care which one.”

When they got back to the house, Doc and Lettie were there, already working on Rose, stitching her knife wound. They’d already cleaned and bandaged Tin Yu’s wound where the bullet had passed through her side.

Eva and Catt were having a hard time with Micah and Caleb, they had lost their grandma. They couldn’t understand why the bad men wanted to kill her – she never hurt anyone.

Eli picked both of them up in his arms and pulled them close as they lay their heads on his shoulders and cried. He cried with them, it hurt him to see his sons hurt like this. It hurt him that his family suffered because he was a marshal.

Clarissa and Mary had dressed Kia and Michi and they ran to hold onto Eli’s legs as he held Micah and Caleb.

He turned to see Little Eli, Ezra, Lee Yu, and Lilly Beth looking up at him, tears in their eyes and he reached down with his hands and pulled them all close as he knelt in the floor.

“Let’s all walk out to the barn while your mommas and Doc and Lettie get the others doctored up,” he told them and set Caleb and Micah on the floor.

They walked slowly out to the barn, followed by Duncan leading Isaac, and Moses carrying Pike.

Eli took them into the tack room, where the kids always loved to play on the saddles. The boys climbed on the saddles, and helped Lee Yu and Lilly Beth up to sit two to a saddle. Kia and Michi knelt beside Eli as he sat on a keg and talked.

“I don’t know what to say to all of you. I know this hurts you to see Little Duck get killed as she tried to keep any of you from gettin’ hurt. I know it’s hard to see Rose and Tin Yu hurt too. It hurts me to see all of you crying because bad men came here to hurt our family...

“We’re leaving here as soon as we can. We’re all moving over to the new houses in Tulsa. We’ll live out on a hillside overlooking the Arkansas River – the same river that runs in front of these houses. We’ll have lots of cows all over the place and I’ll get each of you a horse of your own to ride...

“Duncan, Moses, and me are gonna stop bein’ marshals and stay home and be with our families. We love all of you too much to see you hurt like this. Things like this will always be in your mind, but one day, you’ll learn to not let it hurt so bad and you’ll start havin’ fun and playin’ and ridin’ horses.

Eli looked around at them, his own eyes full of tears, seeing all these young’uns crying and hurt like this.

The big billy goat, the nanny, and the two younger goats walked up and looked into the tack room. The young’uns all ran to them and hugged and petted them, crying again because the other nanny had been killed out there.

“Daddy, can we all go bring nanny back and bury her here by the barn?” Michi asked.

“Yes, let’s get your mommas and the rest of them took care of and we’ll all go out there and bring her back. She was a good friend to all of you, especially you and Kia.”

Jefferson came home to check on the family. He’d been troubled that Eli was so worried earlier. When he saw the family devastated by the death of Little Duck, Rose with her side stitched up and Tin Yu with a bullet hole in her side, he was furious.

He pulled Eli aside and got the whole story from him, in detail. He was pleased to know that there were three dead men out in the woods west of the house. He was more pleased to know that Bear Sixkiller was dead. He had broken out of prison in Illinois where he had been sent last year after trying to escape from Fort Smith jail. He and the other three had met while they were in Ft. Smith jail together. He was reported to have been spotted near the jail the day before the others broke out.

Jefferson promised to never tell of how the Comanche met his end.

“Jefferson, I’m turnin’ in my badge tomorrow. I can’t be a marshal no more, knowin’ that harm may come to my family.”

“Eli, wait a while first. You’re too good at what you do to quit now. Maybe you can work it out with Judge Parker to stay at Tulsa and only come back here with the prisoners.”

“Jefferson, I’m not sure I could come back with live prisoners now. I already want to kill half the ones that’re down there now, just in case they might want to break out of jail and come here to harm our family. What would of happened if we hadn’t come home at just the right time?”

“I understand Eli, and I’m so glad you had the premonition about this. I can hardly stand the thought of Rose being cut and having stitches, simply because she didn’t want those girls to suffer through what she did as a young girl.”

“It ain’t worth it to me no more, Jefferson. I love bein’ a marshal and doin’ my job ... now I hate the thought of having to leave again. I don’t even know that I can.”

“Eli, let’s talk to the judge before you quit. Maybe he can work it out so we can all move over to Tulsa. I could come home every week or so and still work over here. In a few years, they’ll have railroads all over the Territory and a man can ride anywhere in just hours.”

“I’ll talk to him first then. I’m proud you’re my friend and my sister’s husband, Jefferson. You’re a bigger man than I am about things like this.”

“Thanks, Eli, I’m proud to be kin to you and proud to have you as a friend too.

“I also want to tell you, now that you’ve settled down some, the U.S. Cavalry has filed charges against you, Joe, and Sissy. I don’t know if you even know it yet, but Joe and Sissy killed three young recruits out of a patrol that stopped them on their way home, when they took the building materials out to your man south of Fort Reno.”

“They killed three of them? I reckon they had a fair reason to kill them or they wouldn’t have.”

“Joe and Sissy swore they were about to be shot after they tried to tell the young men they weren’t on government lands.”

“Not another skirmish about them unassigned lands is it?”

“Yes, that’s it exactly...

“Sissy and Joe told Jon David and Amanda all about it and he’s checked on the legality of their charges. He thinks they’ve filed the charges just to make it official and have it in the records. He says the cavalry has no jurisdiction over civilians.

“Judge Parker was irate when he saw the charges. He sent a telegram to the Department of the Army too, telling them of the incident involving United States Marshals under his jurisdiction, and their families, explaining that the cavalry has no jurisdiction over civilians in unassigned lands. He has yet to hear back from them.”

“I’ll talk to Jon David. What do you think of all this, Jefferson? You know they’ll never take Joe and Sissy from me. Not even the cavalry, unless they kill me first.”

“I know that and I’ve told Judge Parker that very same thing. That’s another reason I want you to move the family over to the new ranch at Tulsa.”

“Jefferson, you just reminded me, I need a bill of sale for four hundred cows at five dollars a head, made out to the partnership, from William, George, and Ben Barkley.”

“I’ll get that done when I get back to the courthouse, Eli. You bought some more did you?”

“I did and hired the boys to work the ranch at Tulsa too. We left them with Iron Hammer and his brothers. They’ll get a good lesson in Cherokee hospitality, I reckon,” Eli said as he relaxed and smiled for the first time since he came home.

“Where did the boys work before they sold their cattle to you, Eli?” Jefferson grinned.

“I’ll tell you all about that another time, Jefferson. I don’t reckon I can ever pull one over on you. I’m glad you’re always watchin’ my back.”

“Count on it, Eli. I’m going back and try to catch Judge Parker before he leaves for the day. He’s working too hard lately and I’m afraid it’s going to get him down.”

“Jefferson, I’ll see you when you get home. I reckon you’ll send somebody out here to clean up them bodies over there. If it was just me, I’d drag them off a little ways and leave them for the buzzards.”

“If it was just you and me, I’d help you, Eli.”

Jefferson went in to see Rose and Ezra before he left. He wanted to know they were alright.

Eli went back in the house to check on Tin Yu and Rose. He wanted to see Doc and see how bad they were. He knew the women would never complain if they were hurting.

“Doc, how are they, will they both heal up alright?”

“Eli, they both have superficial wounds. I did put four stitches in Rose to lessen the scar she’ll have, but both were very lucky. Joe will have some headaches for a while, until his wound heals over. The bullet just scraped across his cranium, but didn’t cut or crack his skull. You may even tell him I said it was his hard head that saved him. I told him as much when we were working on him...

“I don’t know how you ever came upon that boy, but if there ever was a perfect pair, it’s Sissy and Joe. Lettie and I have talked, we think she loves him so much because he wants to be just like you.”

“I kinda like him a lot myself, Doc. Liked him the first time I saw him. I saw a lot of me in him, when I was younger.”

“Eli, Lettie and I need to get back over to the hospital. We’ll try to come back after we get through over there. I know if we can all get away, Nadalee and Hadalee will come back with us when we tell them what all has happened.”

“We’ll see you then, Doc, and thanks for all you do for us.”

“Eli, we’re part of the family and I couldn’t be happier here with all of you.”

The coroner was busy out on Crow property. He examined Little Duck first, then let the undertaker’s assistant take her to the morgue. Moses and Duncan left to show them where the three bodies were in the woods.

When they came in from showing the coroner and the men from the undertakers where the bodies were, they let Eli know the men had taken them away and the kids could go out now.

They gathered all the kids and went out to bring the nanny back to bury her. The other goats were still running loose, and walked with them back into the deep woods to where she lay.

They had made a litter using an old tarp and some long poles. They lifted her up as the boys slid the litter underneath. The other goats were right next to them, trying to see what they were doing. Then when they lifted the makeshift litter, Moses and Eli carried it out of the trees with the other goats walking beside it, along with all the young’uns.

Back at the barn, they slipped the poles from the loops they’d made, and wrapped the nanny in the tarp for her to be buried in. Eli, Moses, and Duncan took turns digging the grave, with the six boys and four girls looking on.

They lowered the old nanny into the grave and the boys and girls threw flowers on top of the tarp before they covered the grave. They’d never been to a funeral, or seen anyone buried before, but they had learned about it from the books Rose and Clarissa taught them from.

“Daddy, we don’t have a preacher for her, but I want to say something,” Kia said as Little Eli held the cross they had made, and Ezra drove it into the ground.

“I do too, Daddy, she was so good to us, like she really was our momma,” Michi said, sobbing.

“You girls go right ahead, we all loved her and now you know how much she loved you,” Eli said, wiping his eyes.

“God, this is Michi Crow. I lost my real momma and daddy a long time ago and I hope they’re up there with you now. I’m a Crow girl now and I love my family. We don’t know if you like goats enough to let them in heaven, but if you do, we want you to take this nanny up there. She was more than just a goat, she fed us and watched over us when we were little and we all loved her, thank you God,” Michi said as she bent over the grave and wept.

“God, this is Kia Crow. Michi and I don’t remember our real momma and daddy, but we got a new momma and daddy now and we love them so much. I just wanted to thank you for letting us have this big family to love and thank you for letting us have this nanny for a friend. She was a good goat, she was a good friend and she sure had some good milk. We all hope she’s in heaven now, thank you God,” Kia said as they all knelt around the grave, placing flowers on it as they wept.

“Let’s all go in the house and check on the ones that got hurt, then we’ll have a talk about what happened and what we need to do now,” Eli told them. He looked at Moses and Duncan and they were crying too.

This was just too hard, seeing their family hurt like this.

Mary had made two big pans of yeast rolls and warmed some roast from dinner, while the others had been getting doctored and mended. The boys and girls sat at their table by themselves now. They were all eight years old except for Pike who was seven and a half. Kia and Michi sat with them, being the oldest at nine years old. They always looked out for the younger ones. Eli, Ezra, Micah, and Caleb were as tall as Kia and Michi already, and a head taller than the others their age.

Eli asked where Carl and Sundy, and Donald and Jessie were, when he realized they were missing from the family. Mary told him the girls worked with their husbands on the job now, and were good at drawing out plans when they had new houses to build.

When they had eaten their meal, Eli stood next to the tables, trying to think of what he wanted to say and how to say it.

“This has been a hard day for all of us. I know all of us hurt because we lost Little Duck. I hurt too, she was a good woman and she loved all of us. You all knew her and loved her and you know that she would fuss at you now, if we didn’t go on with our plans to move over to Tulsa and live on the new ranch.

“Duncan, Moses, and me are gonna talk to Judge Parker tomorrow about us quittin’ bein’ marshals. Jefferson is talking to the judge today to see if he’ll let us be marshals and live over there. If he won’t, then we’ll quit. Either way we’re all moving over to Tulsa. Bill, I reckon you and Jack and Cadalee and Adalee will have to make up your minds if all of you want to move over there too and open a leather and saddle shop or not,” Eli said as he looked at them.

“Sissy and Joe want to get married now and move over there as soon as they can. I told her today out there in the woods, we’d have the wedding as soon as we can. Mary, I want you and Clarissa to help them with that.

“We have many houses and boardinghouses built now. I don’t even know how many we have, but I know we make a lot of rent on them.”

“Eli we have twenty, single family houses and twenty two, two family houses and three boardinghouses, with sixty rooms rented out. They’re all paid for and we’re making between three and four thousand a month rent,” Rose said.

“I didn’t know we had that many houses and rooms to rent. I like that news, you women have done good...

“We have about five thousand head of cows over at Tulsa and twice that many down on Chickasaw and Cheyenne lands. We have hundreds, maybe even thousands of pecan trees down there too and we’ll all go over there this fall and gather up pecans. If we do good with the pecans and the cows, then with the rent money, we’ll all make enough to stop working so hard and have a good life...

“I reckon Carl and Sundy, and Donald and Jessie will have to decide if they want to stay here or go with us. I know it’ll be hard to decide, but them boys can make a lot of money over here building houses in the next few years. Then, if they wanted to, when Oklahoma becomes a state, they could move over there and make even more money when Tulsa starts to grow. They’ll just have to make that decision.”