| Discouraged by successive defeats, [William Henry David] Murray [1869-1956] left the United States in the 1920s as he sought to establish an agricultural colony in southern Bolivia. Murray's sons and their spouses, with a few neighbors from Tishomingo, settled in Bolivia where they suffered numerous hardships when support from the Bolivian government failed to materialize. Harsh living conditions demoralized the settlers, and when the colony collapsed, Murray returned to Oklahoma where he found political and economic chaos. |
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