Cattlemen
Page 51
Chapter IV. Print Olive killed: Border Ruffian, Coolidge, Kans., Omaha (Nebr.) Bee, Aug. 18, 1886, and others.
Bill Olive Killed: Rister, No Man's Land.
BOOK FOUR
Chapters I to III. Rebellion against Wyoming Stock Growers Association roundup rule: Lincoln County, Nebr., ranchers swore out warrants against members of the roundup and deputized cowboys to serve them if the Association men showed up—Capt. Luther H. North; A. R. Modisett, of Modisetts Ranch in the sandhills; Bratt's Trails of Yesterday; also from ranchers up around Black Hills in a rebellion of their own.
Wyoming: Sources on cattleman conflicts, 1888-1893, from bibliography: Baber; Baker; Canton; Clay; David; Frink (Cow Country); Hall; Jackson, of Frink, Jackson and Spring; Krakel, Mercer; Mokler; Osgood; Ricketts; Trenholm; Whitcomb; Brayer; Jackson ("Wyoming Stock Growers Association"). Additional sources: Bard, Floyd C., letter in True West, July-Aug., 1957; Brock, J. Elmer, "Who Dry-gulched the Hoe Foreman?", Denver, Westerners Brand Book, 1953; Sheldon, A. E., "A Nebraska Episode of the Wyoming Cattle War," Proceedings and Collections, Nebraska State Historical Society, Vol. V, sec. sr., 1902. There is much manuscript and interview material in private hands, usually not open to researchers.
Chapter V. End of free grass: sources from bibliography: Bye; Clay; Hall; Holden (Spur Ranch); Krakel; Osgood; Riordan ("Frontier Kingdom"); Sandoz (Old Jules); Sheldon; Trenholm; U. S. Congress ("Report on Public Lands Com."); Webb (Texas Rangers). Additional sources: Carpenter, Mrs. Martha, Cherry County, Nebraska, Cattle Fight, in author's files; Downing, Mrs. Harry (widow of Jason H. Cole), Account of Cole Tragedy, ms written for author; Holden, W. C., "The Problem of Stealing on the Spur Ranch," West Texas Historical Association Year Book, Vol. VIII; Hooper, Pat, letters to author; Lemmon, G. E., autobiographical ms in author's files; Modisett, A. R., Recollections, ms in author's files; Morse, Ruth, article on Sen. D. J. Cole, son of Jason H. Cole, Nebraska Cattleman, Apr., 1951; Rasch, P. J., "The Horrel War," New Mexican Historical Review, XXXI; Petersen, Marquard: copies of letters and documents of dealings with Richard and Comstock, including the homesteading and the sale of the Spade Ranch site. Presented to the author by Mr. Petersen.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Some representative selections for the general reader.
BOOKS
Abbott, E. C. (Teddy Blue) and Helena Huntington Smith. We Pointed Them North. New York: Farrar and Rinehart. 1939.
Baber, D. F. as told by Bill Walker. The Longest Rope, the Truth About the Johnson County Cattle War. Caldwell: Caxton. 1940.
Baker, E. D. "A Rustler's Account of the 'Johnson County War'," Chicago, The Westerners Brand Book, 1945-46. 1947.
Barnes, W. C. Winter Grazing Grounds and Forest Ranges. Chicago. 1913.
Barrows, John R. Ubet. Caldwell: Caxton. 1934.
Bataille, Georges. Lascaux, or the Birth of Art. Switzerland: Skira. n.d.
Baughman, Theodore. The Oklahoma Scout. Chicago: Homewood. 188-.
Bell, James A. A Log of the Texas-California Cattle Trail, 1854. (ed. J. Evetts Haley), priv. pub. 1932.
Benschoter, Geo. E. Book of Facts, Concerning the Early Settlement of Sherman County, pam. Loup City, Nebr. About 1897.
Blanchard, Leola Howard. Conquest of Southwest Kansas. Wichita. 1931.
Bolton, Herbert Eugene. Athanase de Mèzières and the Louisiana-Texas Frontier, 1768-1780. 2 vols. Cleveland: Arthur H. Clark. 1914.
Bratt, John. Trails of Yesterday. Lincoln and Chicago. 1921.
Brisbin, James S. Beef Bonanza: or How to Get Rich on the Plains.Philadelphia. 1881.
Bronson, Edgar Beecher. Reminiscences of a Ranchman. New York: McClure. 1908.
Brown, Dee, with Schmitt, Martin F. Trail Driving Days. New York: Scribners. 1952.
Burdick, Usher L. Marquis De Mores at War in the Badlands, pam. Fargo, N. Dak. 1929.
Burns, Robert Homer; Gillespie, Andrew Springs and Richardson, Willing Gay. Wyoming's Pioneer Ranches, by Three Native Sons of the Laramie Plains. Laramie: Top-of-the-World Press. 1955.
Burton, Harley True. A History of the JA Ranch. Austin. 1928.
Butcher, S. D. Pioneer History of Custer County and Short Sketches of Early Days in Nebraska. Broken Bow, Nebr. 1901.
Bye, John O. Back Trailing in the Heart of the Short Grass Country. Everett, Wash.: Alexander Printing Co., 1956.
Canton, Frank M. Frontier Trails, the Autobiography of Frank M. Canton, ed. Edward Everett Dale. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1930.
Carey, Fred. Mayor Jim (Jim Dahlman). Omaha: Omaha Printing Co. 1930.
Castaneda, C. E. The Finding of Texas. Vol. 1 of Our Catholic Heritage in Texas. 1518-1936. 2 vols. Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones. 1936.
Clancy, Foghorn. My Fifty Years in Rodeo, Living with Cowboys, Horses and Danger. San Antonio: Naylor. 1952.
Clay, John. My Life on the Range. Chicago, priv. pub. 1924.
Collins, Hubert E. Warpath & Cattle Trail. New York: Morrow. 1928.
Cook, James H. Fifty Years on the Old Frontier. New Haven: Yale. 1923.
Crawford, Lewis F. Badlands and Broncho Trails. Adventures of Ben Arnold Connor. Bismarck. 1926.
Dale, Edward Everett. The Range Cattle Industry. Norman. 1930.
David, Robert B. Malcolm Campbell, Sheriff. Casper, Wyo. 1932.
Day, A. Grove. Coronado's Quest. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press. 1940.
Dobie, J. Frank. The Longhorns. Boston: Little Brown. 1941.
_____. "Trail Driving a Hundred Years Ago." Denver, The Westerners Brand Book, 1952.
_____. A Vaquero of the Brush Country. Dallas. 1920.
Emmett, Chris. Shanghai Pierce: a Fair Likeness. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1953.
Foght, H. W. Trail of the Loup. 1906.
French, Wm. Some Recollections of a Western Ranchman. London. 1927.
Frewen, Moreton. Milton Mowbray and Other Memories. London. 1924.
Frink, Maurice. Cow Country Cavalcade: Eighty Years of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. Denver: Old West Publishing Co. 1954.
Frink, Maurice; Jackson, W. Turrentine & Spring, Agnes Wright. When Grass Was King. Boulder: Univ. of Colorado Press. 1956.
Gard, Wayne. The Chisholm Trail. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1954.
Goodwyn, Frank. Life on the King Ranch. New York: Crowell. 1951.
Guernsey, Charles A. Wyoming Cowboy Days. New York: Putnam's. 1930.
Hagedorn, Herman. Roosevelt in the Badlands. Boston. 1921.
Haley, J. Evetts. Charles Goodnight, Cowman and Plainsman. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 1936.
_____. The XIT Ranch of Texas. Chicago: Lakeside Press. 1929.
Hall, Bert L. ed. Roundup Years, Old Muddy to Black Hills. Pierre. 1954.
Hastings, Frank S. A Ranchman's Recollections. Chicago. 1921.
Hibbard, Benjamin H. A History of the Public Land Policies. New York. 1924.
Holden, William Curry. Alkali Trails, or Social and Economic Movements of the Texas Frontier, 1846-1900. Dallas. 1930.
_____. Rollie Burns, an Account of the Ranching Industry on the South Plains. Dallas. 1932.
_____. The Spur Ranch, a Study of the Inclosed Ranch Phase of the Cattle Industry in Texas. Boston: Christopher. 1934.
Howard, Joseph Kinsey. Montana, High, Wide and Handsome. New Haven: Yale. 1943.
Horgan, Paul. Great River, the Rio Grande in North American History. 2 vols. New York: Rinehart. 1954.
Huidekoper, A. C. My Experience and Investment in the Bad Lands of Dakota and Some of the Men I Met There. pam. Baltimore: Wirth Bros. 1947.
Huidekoper, Wallis. The Land of the Dakotahs. Helena: Montana Stockgrowers Association. 1949.
Hunt, Frazier. Cap Mossman, Last of the Great Cowmen. New York: Hastings House. 1951.
Hunter, J. Marvin, (comp. and ed.) The Trail Drivers of Texas. 2 vols. Bandera, Tex. 1923.
James, Will. Lone Cowboy: My Life Story. New York: Scribners. 1930.
Jenkins, A. O. Olive's Last Roundup. Loup City, Nebr. 1930.
Krakel, Dean F. The Saga of Tom Horn, the Story of a Cattlemen's War. Laramie: Laramie Printing. 1954.
Lang, Lincoln A. Ranching with Roosevelt. Philadelphia. 1926.
Lockhart, John W. Sixty Years on the Brazos. Los Angeles, priv. 1930.
Henry, Stuart. Conquering the Great Plains. New York. 1930.
Lea, Tom. The King Ranch. 2 vols. Boston: Little Brown. 1957.
Lomax, John A., and Lomax, Alan. Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads. 1938.
Lydekker, Richard. The Ox and Its Kindred. London. 1912.
McCarty, John L. Maverick Town, the Story of Old Tascosa. Norman. 1946.
McCarty, "Col." Wm. C. A Few Practical Remarks about Texas. Colonization pam. New York. 1871.
McCracken, Harold. The Charles M. Russell Book. Garden City: Double-day. 1957.
McCoy, Joseph A. Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and the Southwest. Kansas City. 1874.
Madison, Virginia. The Big Bend Country of Texas. Albuquerque: Univ. of New Mexico Press. 1955.
Mattison, Ray H. Ranching in the Dakota Bad Lands, pam. Bismarck: State Historical Society of North Dakota. 1952.
____. Roosevelt's Dakota Ranches, pam. Bismarck: Tribune, n.d.
Mercer, A. S. The Banditti of the Plains, or the Cattlemen's Invasion of Wyoming in 1892. priv. pub. 1894.
Milligan, E. W. "John Wesley Iliff," Denver, The Westerners Brand Book. 1950.
Mokler, Alfred James. History of Natrona County, Wyoming, 1888-1922. Chicago. 1923.
Nordyke, Lewis. Cattle Empire; the Fabulous Story of the 3,000,000-Acre XIT. New York: Morrow. 1949.
____. Great Roundup; the Story of Texas and Southwestern Cowmen. New York: Morrow. 1955.
O'Connor, Richard. Bat Masterson. New York: Doubleday. 1957.
Osgood, Ernest S. The Day of the Cattleman. Minneapolis. 1929.
Parsons, John E. The First Winchester. New York: Morrow. 1955.
Peake, Ora Brooks. The Colorado Range Cattle Industry. Glendale. 1937.
Pelzer, Louis. The Cattlemen's Frontier. Glendale. 1936.
Pence, Mary Lou and Homsher, Lola M. The Ghost Towns of Wyoming. New York: Hastings House. 1956.
Powell, John Wesley. Report on the Lands of the Arid Regions of the United States. Washington. 1879.
Pulling, Hazel Adele. "History of the Range Cattle Industry of Dakota," South Dakota Historical Collections. Vol. XX. 1940.
Raht, Carlysle Graham. The Romance of Davis Mountains and the Big Bend Country. El Paso. 1919.
Raines, William McLeod, and Barnes, Will C. Cattle. New York. 1930.
Richardson, R. N. The Comanche Barrier to South Plains Settlement. Glendale. 1933.
Ricketts, W. P. Fifty Years in the Saddle. Sheridan, Wyo. 1942.
Rister, Carl Coke. No Man's Land. Norman. 1948.
____. The Southwestern Frontier, 1865-1881. Cleveland. 1928.
Robbers Roost Historical Society, Pioneering on the Cheyenne River. Lusk, Wyo.: Herald. 1947.
Rollins, P. A. The Cowboy. New York. 1922.
Rollinson, John K. Wyoming Cattle Trails. Caldwell: Caxton. 1948.
Roosevelt, Theodore. Hunting Trips of a Ranchman. New York. 1885.
Russell, Charles M. Good Medicine. New York. 1936.
Sandoz, Mari. The Buffalo Hunters. New York: Hastings House. 1954.
____. Cheyenne Autumn. New York: McGraw-Hill. 1952.
____. Old Jules. 20th Anniv. ed. New York: Hastings House. 1955.
Sheldon, Addison E. Land Systems and Land Policies of Nebraska. Lincoln: Nebraska State Historical Society Publications, Vol. XXII. 1936.
Siringo, Charles A. A Texas Cowboy, new ed. New York: Sloane. 1950.
Sonnichsen, C. L. I'll Die before I'll Run; the Story of the Great Feuds of Texas. New York: Harpers. 1951.
Sowell, A. J. Rangers and Pioneers of Texas. San Antonio. 1884.
Spring, Agnes Wright. 70 Years of the Cow Country, Panoramic History of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association. Cheyenne. 1942.
Streeter, Floyd Benjamin. Prairie Trails and Cow Towns. Boston. 1936.
Stuart, Granville. Forty Years on the Frontier. 2 vols. Cleveland. 1925.
Tait, J. S. The Cattle-fields of the Far West. pam. Edinburgh. 1884.
Towne, Charles Wayland, and Wentworth, Edward Norris. Cattle and Men. Norman: Univ. of Oklahoma Press. 1955.
____. Shepherd's Empire. Norman. 1945.
Trenholm, Virginia Cole. Footprints on the Frontier. Douglas, Wyo. 1945.
Treadwell, Edward F. The Cattle King. New York. 1931.
U. S. CONGRESS:
Documents and Correspondence Relating to Leases of Indian Lands ••• for Cattle Grazing ••• 1884. Sen. Ex. Doc. No. 54. 48th Cong. 1st Sess.
Range and Ranch Cattle Traffic, by Joseph Nimmo. House Ex: Doc. No. 267. 48th Cong. 2nd Sess. 1884-5.
Report of Public Lands Commission. 1905. Sen. Doc. No. 189. 58th Cong. 3rd Sess.
Vestal, Stanley. Queen of Cowtowns, Dodge City. New York: Harpers. 1952.
Webb, Walter Prescott. The Great Plains. New York. 1931.
____. The Texas Rangers, a Century of Frontier Defense. Boston. 1935.
Whitcomb, E. W. "Reminiscences of a Pioneer," First Biennial Report of the State Historian of the State of Wyoming. 1920.
Wright, Robert M. Dodge City, the Cowboy Capital and the Great Southwest, etc. Wichita. 1913.
PERIODICALS
Aeschbacher, W. P. "Development of Cattle Raising in the Sandhills," Nebraska History, XXVIII, no. 1.
Brayer, Herbert O. "The Influence of British Capital on the Western Range Cattle Industry." Denver, Westerners Brand Book, IV, no. 5.
Clay, John. "The Passing of Conrad Kohrs," Breeders Gazette, Dec. 2, 1920.
Eaton, J. C. "Early Ranching in the Mouse River Valley," Bar North, June 1956.
Fletcher, Robt. S. "Organization of the Range Cattle Business in Eastern Montana," Bulletin 265, Mont. Agricultural Experiment Station, June 1932.
____. "That Hard Winter in Montana, 1886-1887," Agricultural History, IV, Oct. 1930.
Goplen, Arnold O. "The Career of Marquis De Mores in the Badlands of North Dakota," North Dakota History, XIII, Nos. 1-2.
Hall, J. N. "Days of the Cattlemen in Northeastern Colorado," Colorado Magazine, May 1930.
Hinton, Harwood P., Jr. "John Simpson Chisum, 1877-1884," New Mexico Historical Review, XXXI, July 1956.
Jackson, W. Turrentine. "The Wyoming Stock Growers Association: Political Power in Wyoming Territory, 1873-1890," Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XXX, Mar. 1947.
Kennedy, Michael, "Judith Basin Top Hand, Reminiscences of Wm. C. Burnett, an Early Montana Cattleman," Montana Magazine of History, Spring 1953.
Kohrs, Conrad. "A Veteran's Experience in the Western Cattle Trade," Breeders Gazette, Dec. 18, 1912.
Kuhn, Bertha M. "The W Bar Ranch on the Missouri Slope," Collections, the State Historical Society, North Dakota, V, 1923.
Larson, T. A. "The Winter of 1886-87 in Wyoming," Annals of Wyoming, Jan. 1942.
McMechen, Edgar C. "John Hittson, Cattle King," Colorado Magazine, Sept. 1934.
Malin, James C. "Soil, Animal and Plant Relations of the Grassland, Historically Reconsidered," Scientific Monthly, LXXVI, no. 4.
Oliphant, J. Orin, "Eastward Movement of Cattle from the Oregon Country," Agricultural History, XX, No. 1.
Records, Ralph H. "Wildlife on the T-5 and Spade Ranches," Chronicles of Oklahoma, XXI, Sept. 1943.
Riordan, Marguerite, "Frontier Kingdom,". (Bartlett Richards) The Nebraska Cattleman, Nov. 1950 to Mar. 1951.
____. "Murdo Mackenzie, Ranch King," The Westerner, Oct. 1943 to Mar. 1944.
Schmidt, L. B. "The Westward Movement of the Corn-growing Industry in the United States," Iowa Jr. of History and Politics, XXI, no. 1.
Welsh, Donald H. "Cosmopolitan Cattle King, Pierre Wibaux and the W Bar Ranch," Montana, the Magazine of Western History, Spring 1955.
INDEX
Aberdee
n-Angus cattle, 185, 312, 317, 436, 461, 474, 497
Abilene, 58, 59, 65, 101, 110-20, 123-27, 130, 131, 135, 149, 188, 214, 497
Abilene Chronicle, 121
Act of 1891, 420
Adair, Cornelia, 181, 182, 452
Adair, John George, 180, 183, 239, 240, 244
Adams, A. D., 358
Alamo (Texas), 32, 33, 125, 220
Alberta, Montana cattle in, 263, 265
Allen, R. M., 358, 379, 382, 400, 434, 438
Allison, Clay, 156, 157
American National Cattleman's Association, 463
American Pastoral Co., Ltd., 303
American Shorthorn Breeders Association, 301
Amon, 27
Andalusian cattle, 29
Anderson, Hugh, 128
Anglos, 30, 31, 32, 39, 101
Angus, Sheriff Red, 337, 348, 352, 353, 354, 359, 363, 364, 365, 389, 394, 395, 396, 397, 402; as leader of Johnson County Defenders, 377-86, 388
Apaches, 13, 14, 44, 45, 83, 215
Apis, 27
Arapahoes, 84
Arizona, 44, 461, 468, 495
Arkansas, 56, 157, 178, 272
Arkansas River, 48, 57, 82, 92, 97, 123, 134, 142, 145, 160, 176, 177, 260, 273, 274
Armour, P. A., 264, 324, 463, 482
Aureomycin, in feed mix, 473
"Aurochs, present-day," 487
Austin, 31f., 50, 74, 79, 80, 118, 130, 132, 211, 214, 296, 297, 298, 302, 310, 317
Austin Statesman, quoted, 71-72, 74-75
Auta, tomb of, 27
Averill, James, 339, 340, 341, 342, 345, 355, 448; brother of, 343
Babcock, Col., 298, 299, 300, 301, 303
Badlands country, 452
Bang's disease, 473