Description |
xx, 370 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-360) and index. |
Contents |
Westward to Kansas -- Bullwhackers, mule skinners, and cattle buyers -- Life in the Osage Nation -- Cowpunching in Dodge City -- The Dull Knife raid -- The Comanche County pool -- Roundup time in the spring -- Line riding on the ["T5" symbol] Ranch -- Wildlife on the Eagle Chief range -- The winter trapping expedition of 1879 -- Working for the [tree symbol] Ranch -- Medicine Lodge and ranching in Barber County -- The roundup of 1881 -- Ranching in Pratt County -- Back to the [tree symbol] Ranch -- The Talbot raid -- Neighborhood and general roundups of 1882 -- Cowboy pranks in Caldwell -- Stagecoach travel on the frontier -- Working on the Skeleton Ranch -- The last big Cherokee Strip roundup -- Neighborhood and Kansas roundups -- Driving the [tree symbol] cattle to Caldwell -- Crime comes to cow country -- Billy Malaley's Pole Cat Ranch -- Foreman of the JD P Ranch -- Cattle shipping business in Kansas -- Frank Records among the Pawnee Indians -- Cowhands and trail drivers -- Cherokee Strip ranchers -- A shot heard round the prairie. |
Summary |
Presents the memoirs of Laban Samuel Records, recounting his western experiences from 1870, when he moved from Indiana to Kansas, through 1892 when he settled on the claim he had staked in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Run. |
Subject |
Records, Laban Samuel, 1856-1941.
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Cowboys -- Cherokee Strip (Okla. and Kan.) -- Biography.
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Ranch life -- Cherokee Strip (Okla. and Kan.) -- History -- 19th century.
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Cherokee Strip (Okla. and Kan.) -- History.
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Kansas -- History, Local.
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Ranch life -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century.
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Records, Laban Samuel, 1856-1941 (OCoLC)fst00345175
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Cowboys. (OCoLC)fst00881986
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Ranch life. (OCoLC)fst01089735
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Kansas. (OCoLC)fst01204323
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United States -- Cherokee Strip.
(OCoLC)fst01311058
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Chronological Term |
1800-1899
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Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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Local history. (OCoLC)fst01411631
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Added Author |
Wheeler, Ellen Jayne Maris, 1936- editor.
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ISBN |
0806126949 (alk. paper) |
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9780806126944 (alk. paper) |
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0806128720 |
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9780806128726 |
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