Cherokee Outlet Cowboy, Recollections Of Laban S. Records.

RECORDS, LABAN SAMUEL [EDITED BY ELLEN JAYNE MARIS WHEELER]

Publication: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995, Norman

First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in brown on the spine, xx, 370 pp., preface, acknowledgments, chronology, numerous illustrations from photographs, portraits, 5 maps, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. An interesting narrative by a man who spent many years as a cowboy in Kansas and Oklahoma. Records was a freighter on the Santa Fe Trail, a cowpuncher in the Dodge City stockyards, he escaped the Dull Knife raid in 1878, and he staked a claim in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Run. The book recounts his experiences on cattle drives, in the bunkhouses, with other cowboys, and with the Indians. He first encountered Indians on the banks of the Verdigris River in southern Kansas, learned the Osage language and became an agency cook at Pawhuska. Later he worked in the Cherokee Outlet as a line rider for the T-5 and Spade ranches, eventually becoming a foreman. He knew the participants in the Medicine Lodge bank robbery, the Talbot raid at Caldwell and the Potts-Franklin shootout. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.

Inventory Number: 50570