Cimarron was 1930’s best-selling novel in the US, but more people now remember its movie adaptations than the story Edna Ferber wrote. As Taylor Jasmine notes, passages she meant as satire were taken as straight-up Western storytelling. And, while Ferber criticized whites’ treatment of Native Americans, her narrative also has its own racial stereotyping. When Cimarron goes public domain in 48 days, we can more easily remember what she wrote, and reimagine it as we like. #PublicDomainDayCountdown