Cherokee Run Author:Barbara Classen Smucker Twelve year old Katie Becker's family had moved from the country of the Ukraine to the prairies of Kansa. Their introduction to Kansas is a dark whirling cloud which turns out to be grasshoppers. Eating every green thing in its way, the grasshopper army leaves only scarred earth & saddened Mennonite farmers. Determined to overcome difficultie... more »s of the land, Katie's family turn their hopes to the soon-to-be-opened Oklahoma land area called the "Cherokee Strip." "Cherokee Run" is the exciting story of drought, grasshoppers, a great land race, Indians, greedy men and a Mennonite girl and her dog; and of a God-fearing people who believed in the way of peace and nonviolence.« less