Trail Drivers of Texas, Vol. 1

Introduction Foreword Explanatory Organization of The Old Time Trail Drivers' Association Minutes of The Annual Reunion of The Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, Held in San Antonio, Texas, September 10th and 11th, 1919 Origin and Close of The Old-time Northern Trail The Pumphrey Brothers' Experience on the Trail. By J. B. Pumphrey, Taylor, Texas, and R. B. Pumphrey of San Antonio Dodging Indians near Packsaddle Mountains. By E. A. (Berry) Robuck, Lockhart, Texas Fought Indians on the Trail. By Henry Ramsdale, Sabinal, Texas Location of The Old Chisholm Trail. By C. H. Rust, San Angelo, Texas What Has Become of The Old-fashioned Boy? By C. H. Rust, San Angelo, Texas Cyclones, Blizzards, High Water, Stampedes and Indians on the Trail. By G. H. Mohle, Lockhart, Texas Mistaken for Cole Younger and Arrested. By S. A. Hickock, Karnes City, Texas, A Thorny Experience. By S. A. Brite, Pleasanton, Texas A Trip to California. By Jeff M. White, Pleasanton, Texas Raised on the Frontier. By Walter Smith, Del Rio, Texas Drove a Herd over the Trail to California. By W. E. Cureton, Meridian, Texas Parents Settled in the Republic of Texas. By Joseph S. Cruze, Sr., San Antonio, Texas Coming up the Trail in 1882. By Jack Potter, Kenton, Oklahoma When a Girl Masqueraded as a Cowboy and Spent Four Months on the Trail. By Samuel Dunn, Houston, San Antonio, Texas A Trying Trip Alone through the Wilderness. By Samuel Dunn Houston, San Antonio, Texas First Camp Meeting in Grayson County. ByZ. N. Morell Seven Trips up the Trail. By J. F. Ellison, Fort Cobb, Oklahoma The Old Trailers Killing and Capturing Buffalo in Kansas. By M. A. Withers, Lockhart, Texas On the Trail to Nebraska. By Jeff. D. Farris, Bryan, Texas Echoes of the Cattle Trail. By Jerry M. Nance, Kyle, Texas Reminiscences of Old Trail Driving. By J. M. Hankins, San Antonio, Texas Got "Wild and Woolly" on the Chisholm Trail. By J. N. Byler, Dallas, Texas With Herds to Colorado and New Mexico. By G. W. Scott of Uvalde, Texas Recollections of Old Trail Days. By B. A. Borroum, Del Rio, Texas High-heeled Boots and Striped Breeches. By G. O. Burrows, Del Rio, Texas Sixty Years in Texas. By William J. Bennett, Pearsall, Texas The Good Old Cowboy Days. By Luther A. Lawhon Courage and Hardihood on the Old Cattle Trail. Sketch of Sal West Lived on the Frontier during Indian Times. By Joe F. Spettel, Rio Medina, Texas Made a Long Trip to Wyoming. By H. D. Gruene, Goodwin, Texas Played Pranks on the Tenderfoot. By Henry D. Steele, San Antonio, Texas When a Man's Word was as Good as a Gilt-edged Note. By George N. Steen, Bryan, Texas My Experience on the Cow Trail. By F. M. Polk, Luling, Texas Punching Cattle on the Trail to Kansas. By W. D. Hardeman, Devine, Texas Exciting Experiences on the Frontier and on the Trail. By C. W. Ackerman, San Antonio, Texas Observations and Experiences of Bygone Days. By Louis Schorp, Rio Medina, Texas Met Quanah Parker on the Trail. By John Wells Bartlett, Texas Texas Cowboys at a Circus in Minneapolis. By S. H. Woods, Alice, Texas The Remarkable Career of Colonel Ike T. Pryor Habits and Customs of Early Texas. By L. B. Anderson, Seguin, Texas Hit the Trail in High Places. By Jeff Connolly, Lockhart, Texas The Men Who Made the Trail. By Luther A. Lawhon, San Antonio, Texas A Few Thrilling Incidents in My Experience on the Trail. By L. B. Anderson, Seguin, Texas Memories of the Old Cow Trail. By C. H. Rus, San Angelo, Texas Established the First Packing Plant in Texas. Sketch of W. S. Hall, Comfort, Texas Trail Driving to Kansas and Elsewhere. W. F. Cude, San Antonio, Texas When Lightning Set the Grass on Fire. By George W. Brock, Lockhart, Texas "Big Cowboy Ball Did You Ever Do the Square? By James Barton Adams Experiences "Tenderfeet" Could Not Survive. By G. W. Mills, Lockhart, Texas Killing of "Billy the Kid." By Fred E. Sutton, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma His Father Made Fine "Bowie" Knives. By John James Haynes, San Antonio, Texas Three Times Up the Trail. By W. E. Laughlin, Bartlett, Texas Will Build a Ten-story Marble Hotel in San Antonio. Sketch of John Young, Alpine, Texas When Ab. Blocker Climbed a Fence. By G. M. Carson, Rocksprings, Texas Found a Lot of Snuff on the Trail. By J. A. Blythe, Del Rio, Texas Eight Trips Up the Trail. By A. N. Eustace, Prairie Lea, Texas A Long Time between Drinks. By Sam Neill, La Pryor, Texas Scouting and Routing in the Good Old Days. By J. M. Custer, alias Wilson Catching Antelope and Buffalo on the Trail. By A. Huffmeyer, San Antonio, Texas The Old Trail Driver. By Branch Isabell, Odessa, Texas Drove a Herd to Mississippi and Alabama. By W. D. H. Saunders, San Antonio, Texas "Trail Life." By James Gibson, Alice, Texas An Indian Battle near the Leona River. By L. A. Franks, Pleasanton, Texas Jack Potter, the "Fighting Parson." By John Warren Hunter The Chisholm Trail. By Fred Sutton, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Preferred to Take Older Cattle Up the Trail. By Thomas'Welder, Beeville, Texas A Woman Trail Driver. By Mrs. A. Burks, Cotulla, Texas The Experience of an Old Trail Driver. By Richard (Dick) Withers, Boyes, Montana Cornbread and Clabber Made a Good Meal. By Joseph Cotulla, Cotulla, Texas One of the Best-known Trail Drivers. Sketch of John R. Blocker, Big Wells, Texas Captain John T. Lytle J. D. Jackson T. A. Coleman Twice Across the Plains in Fourteen Months. By Joe S. Clark, Orange Grove, Texas John Z. Means George W. Evans Cowboy Life in West Texas Days Gone By. By Hiram G. Craig, Brenham Captain Charles Schreiner, Kerrville, Texas The Early Cattle Days in Texas. By A. W. Capt, San Antonio, Texas The Cost of Moving a Herd to Northern Markets. By Col. Ike Pryor, San Antonio, Texas Lost Twenty-one Thousand Dollars on One Drive. By John S. Kritzer, Taylor, Texas Mose Wesley Hays The Platte was Like a Ribbon in the Sunshine. By J. W. Jackson, Bartlett, Texas Put up Five Hundred Steers to Secure Three Hundred Dollars. By E. L. Brounson, Sample, Texas Some Interesting Things Seen on the Cattle Trail. By John B. Conner, Yoakum, Texas When "Louisiana" Came to Texas. By T. M. Turner, San Antonio, Texas Made Several Trips up The Trail. By N. L. Word, Alice, Texas Probably the Oldest Feeder in Texas. By R. F. Sellers, Mathis, Texas Up the Trail to Northern New Mexico. By L. A. Franks, Pleasanton, Texas The Son of a Well-known Trail Driver. By Robert Farmer Jennings, San Antonio, Texas When George Saunders Made a Bluff "Stick." By T. T. Hawkins, Charlotte, Texas Put Many Herds up for D. R. Fant. By Thomas M. Hodges, Junction, Texas The Milk of Human Kindness is Drying Up. By George F. Hindes, Pearsall, Texas Took Time to Visit His Sweetheart. By H. C. Williams. San Antonio, Texas Reminiscences of the Trail. By Jasper (Bob) Lauderdale From Texas to the Oregon Line. By W. A. Peril, Harper, Texas An Old Frontiersman Tells His Experience. By Joe Chapman, Benton, Texas Parents were among Early Colonists. By Henry Fest, San Antonio, Texas Phil L. Wright Reflections of the Trail. By George W. Saunders, San Antonio, Texas Mrs. Lou Gore Buried a Cowboy in a Lonely Grave on the Prairie. By Alfred Iverson (Babe) Moye, Kenedy, Texas Some Things I Saw Long Ago. By George Gerdes Ate Stolen Meat, Anyway. By Jim Wilson, Alpine, Texas When a Boy Bossed a Herd. Sketch of J. D. Jackson, Alpine, Texas Spent a Hard Winter near Red Cloud. By D. S. Combs, San Antonio, Texas Experiences of the Trail and Otherwise. By M. J. Ripps, San Antonio, Texas Sketch of Col. J. F. Ellison. By J. F. Ellison, Jr., Fort Cobb, Oklahoma Sixty-eight Years in Texas. By Pleasant Burnell Butler, Kenedy, Texas My First Five-dollar Bill. By J. L. McCaleb, Carrizo Springs, Texas Slaked Their Thirst in a Dry Town. By A. D. McGehee, San Marcos, Texas Lived in San Antonio at Time of Woll's Invasion. By George W. West, Jourdanton, Texas Got Their Names in the Pot for Supper and Breakfast. By E. M. (Mac) Stoney, Lockhart, Texas Settled on the Frontier of Texas. Sketch of Ed B. English of Carrizo Springs Some Thrilling Experiences of an Old Trailer. By L. D. Taylor, San Antonio, Texas The Man Who Had Hell in His Neck. By Ab. Blocker, San Antonio, Texas My Third and Last Trip Up the Trail in 1886. By R. J. Jennings, San Antonio, Texas Sketch of Colonel Dillard R. Fant Relates of a Trip Made in 1872. By M. L. Bolding, Bartlett, Texas Paid Three Dollars for Five Gallons of Water. By Sam Garner, Lockhart, Texas I Listened to the Chant of the Night Songs. By I. H. Elder, Sanderson, Texas Sketch of L. B. Allen Had Less Trouble with Indians than with the Grangers on the Trail. By J. E. Pettus, Goliad, Texas My Trip up the Trail. By W. E. Thompson, Pearsall, Texas Richard King Drove Cattle for Doe Burnett. By L. Beasley, Junction, Texas Worked with Cattle for Over Sixty Years. By E. M. (Bud) Daggett, Fort Worth, Texas Made First Trip in 1877. By D. B. Sherrill, Rocksprings, Texas Cowboys Dressed Up at End of Trail. By R. J. Jennings, San Antonio, Texas A Tenderfoot from Kentucky. By J. D. Jackson A True Story of Trail Days Traveling The Trail with Good Men was a Pleasure. By J. F. (Little Jim) Ellison, Jr., Fort Cobb, Oklahoma Had Plenty of Fun. By Gus Black, Eagle Pass, Texas Slumbered through the Shooting. By H. H. Peel, Jourdanton, Texas Another Successful Cowman. By J. B. Murrah, San Antonio, Texas The Real Cowboy. By Beulah Rust Kirkland, Phoenix, Arizona Cowboy from the Plains of Nebraska. By V. F. Carvajal Echoes of the 1916 Convention Early Days in Texas. By J. T. Hazlewood Worked for Geo. W. Saunders in 1875. By L. T. Clark, Quanah, Texas Was Freighter and Trail Driver. By. J. M. Cowley, Fentress, Texas Sold Cattle in Natchez for $4.50 a Head. By A. E. Scheske, Gonzales, Texas Days That Were Full of Thrills. By Branch Isbell, Odessa, Texas Some Trips Up the Trail. By J. M. Garner. Texarkana, Arkansas Thrilling Experiences. By Levi J. Harkey, Sinton, Texas Noted Quantrell Was with Herd on Trail. By Dr. J. W. Hargus of Dimmit County Lost Thousands of Dollars. By C. S. Broadbent, San Antonio, Texas Were Happier in Good Old Days. By Oscar Thompson, Hebronville, Texas Latch String is on the Outside. By R. T. Mellard, Eddy County, New Mexico Dedicated to the Memory of W. J. Edwards. By E. M. Edwards, San Antonio, Texas Lived in Live Oak County Many Years. By W. M. Shannon, Lytle, Texas William James Slaughter James Alfred McFaddin An Old Cow Hand. By John Pat Ryan William C. Irwin Lee L. Russell Thomas B. Saunders Ate Terrapin and Dog Meat and was Glad to Get it. By Ben Drake, South Antonio, Texas Gives Some Early Texas History. By W. F. Cude, Pearsall, Texas Drove Horses to Mississippi. By F. G. Crawford, Oakville, Texas When Jim Dobie Lost His Pants. By E. S. Boatwright, Falfurrius, Texas Sketch of Col. J. J. Meyers Came over from Germany in 1870. By F. Cornelius, Midfield, Texas. A Faithful Negro Servant. By J. E. Folts, Columbus, Texas Grazed on Many Ranges. By T. J. Garner, Loveland, Colorado John H. Ross Was a Bronco Buster Has Had an Eventful Career. By William B. Krempkau, San Antonio, Texas No Room in the Tent for Polecats. By W. B. Foster, San Antonio, Texas Garland G. Odom Reminiscences of an Old Trail Driver. By John C. Jacobs, San Antonio, Texas "Chawed" the Earmarks. By J. G. Thompson, Devine, Texas James Madison Chittim A Big Mix-up. By W. M. Nagiller, Williams, Arizona George T. Reynolds Colonel Albert G. Boyce Born in a Log Cabin. By G. O. Burrow, Del Rio, Texas Sixty Years in Texas Around Good Old San Antonio. By Jesse M. Kilgore, San Antonio, Texas Hardships of a Winter Drive. By Alf. Beadle, North Pleasanton, Texas Mont Woodward Was a Friend. By G. O. Burrow, Del Rio, Texas Dream was Realized. By Charlie Bargsley, San Antonio, Texas When He Got Big Enough to Fight the Indians were Gone. By W. T. (Bill) Brite, Leming, Texas Fifty Cents a Day Was Considered Good Pay. By Louis and Joseph Chorp, Rio Medina, Texas When the Elements Wept and Shed Tears. By W. F. Fielder Sketch of Captain James D. Reed. By Lou Best Porter, Mountainair, New Mexico A Tribute to the Character of William Buckner Houston. By Thomas H. Lewis Served with Lee and Jackson. By J. B. C. Harkness, Pearsall, Texas Harrowing Experiences with Jayhawkers. By J. M. Daugherty, Daugherty, Texas Major George W. Littlefield Kidnapped the Inspectors. By Leo Tucker, Yoakum, Texas David C. Pryor Helped Drive Indians Out of Brown County. By J. W. Driskill, Sabinal, Texas Robert E. Stafford Lafayette Ward Thomas Jefferson Moore William G. Butler Seth Mabry J. D. Murrah Caught the Measles. By Dan Murrah, Del Rio, Texas Medina County Pioneer. By Xavier Wanz, Castroville, Texas Experiences of a Texas Pioneer. By John M. Sharpe W. A. (Buck) Pettus R. G. (Dick) Head Sketch of J. M. Choate W. M. Choate Crossed the Arkansas River in a Skiff. By J. H. Saul When Temperature Was 72 Degrees Below Zero. By C. C. French, Fort Worth, Texas History of an Old Cowman Indians Got Their Horses. By W. H. Crain, Pipe Creek, Texas George Webb Slaughter Thomas M. Peeler Hardships of a Cowboy's Life in the Early Days in Texas. By James T. Johnson, Charco, Texas Associated with Frank James. By Sam H. Nunneley, San Antonio, Texas The Tankersley Family. By Mary Tankersley Lewis, San Angelo, Texas Trail Driving was Fascinating. By W. A. Roberts, Frio Town, Texas Followed Cattle from the Ranch to the Shipping Pen. By Mrs. A. P. Betcher, Del Rio, Texas Tells of an Indian Fight. By W. A. Franks, Pearsall, Texas Reminiscences of the Old Trails. By C. F. Doan of Doan's Made Many Trips up the Old Cow Trail. By E. P. Byler; Wadsworth, Texas Fifty Years Ago. By J. J. (Joe) Roberts, Del Rio, Texas P. E. Slaughter Sketch of the Life of Captain J. J. (Jack) Cureton. By W. E. Cureton, Meridian, Texas Trail Recollections of George W. Elam Tells About Bob Robertson. By W. B. Hardeman, Devine, Texas "Doe" Burkett Ben C. Drago An Old Trail Driver Richard Robertson Russell From the Nueces to the North Platte. By J. R. Humphries, Yoakum, Texas A Long, Hard Trip A. P. Rachal D. C. Rachal Frank S. Rachal John Redus. By Mrs. Sallie McLamore Redus James David Farmer A Well-known Frontier Character Alonzo Millett Three Comrade Cowpunchers Could Ride a Hundred Miles a Day. By C. E. Johnson, Charco, Texas. Ranson Capps Why I am a Prohibitionist. By George F. Hindus, Pearsall, Texas Fifty Years a Policeman Trailed 'Em Across Red River. By Gus Staples, Skidmore, Texas Was in a Railroad Wreck. By John B. Conner, Yoakum, Texas The Rutledge Brothers Jesse Presnall George W. West Played the Fiddle on Head at Night Reminiscences of the Trail. By A. F. Carvajal, San Antonio, Texas James Dobie Made Several Trips up the Trail. By R. J. Jennings, San Antonio, Texas Charles de Montel, Jr Was in Packsaddle Mountain Fight. By N. G. Ozment The Cowboy's Prayer Where They Put a Trail Boss in Jail. By W. T. (Bill) Jackman, San Marcos, Texas Made Several Trips. By Joe P. Smith, Click, Texas Relates Incidents of Many Drives. By William Baxter Slaughter, San Antonio, Texas A Pioneer Mother's Experience. By Mrs. Kate Cruze, San Antonio, Texas A Cowboy Undertaker. By W. K. Shipman, San Antonio, Texas Captured Three Thousand Quarts Would Like to Go Again. By Webster Witter, Beeville, Texas My Experience on the Trail. By Mrs. W. B. Slaughter, San Antonio, Texas Ed C. Lasater The Pluck of a Poor German Boy By B. Vesper, Big Wells, Texas Mrs. Ike T. Pryor Mrs. George W. Saunders Col. C. C. Slaughter M. Halff Daniel Oppenheimer The Killing of Oliver Loving. By Charles Goodnight, Goodnight, Texas W. J. Wilson's Narrative Cyrus B. Lucas John J. Little William Henry Jennings John B. Slaughter Dennis O'Conner Shangai Pierce J. D. Houston Bob Houston Jess McCoy On the Fort Worth and Dodge City Trail. By T. J. Burkett, Sr., Waelder, Texas Character Impersonation My Early Days in Good Old San Antonio. By John A. Miller, Bandera, Texas Captain A. C. Jones. By George W. Saunders Captain Henry Scott. By George W. Saunders Oscar Fox. Composer of Cowboy Songs A. W. Billingsley, Wife, and Son John and Thomas Dewees. By George W. Saunders Came to Texas in 1838. By Mrs. H. C. Mayes, Carlsbad, Texas A Long, Dry Drive Chaplain J. Stewart Pearce Martin and Joe O'Connor Father Received a Premium for Best Corn. By C. E. Austin, Nixon, Texas Son of a Trail Driver. By Harry H. Williams, San Antonio, Texas. More About the Chisholm Trail. By Charles Goodnight, Goodnight, Texas Now a Member of Congress. By Claude Hudspeth, El Paso, Texas Captain Mifflin Kenedy John G. Kenedy Felix M. Shaw A Log of the Trails. By George W. Saunders, Texas Thomas H. Shaw E. B. Flowers Experiences of a Ranger and Scout. By A. M. (Gus) Gildea, Deming, N. M Got a Tail-hold and Held on. By R. F. Galbreath, Devine, Texas The Poet of the Range The Old "Square Dance" of the Western Range James B. Gillett A Few Bars in the Key of G The Morris Family One Trip Up the Trail. By B. D. Lindsey, San Antonio, Texas No Friends Like the Old Trail Drivers. By G. M. Carson, Rocksprings, Texas Dock Burris was Well Known Was in Captain Sansom's Company. By J. W. Minear, San Antonio, Texas Al. N. McFaddin Ira C. Jennings A Trip to Kansas in 1870. By W. R. Massengale, Rio Frio, Texas From the "Historian of the Plains" The Trail Drivers of Texas. By Maude Clark Hough, New York City Made Early Drives. By D. H. Snyder, Georgetown, Texas Rather Confusing James Washington Walker Andrew G. Jones Four Bandera Pioneers In Conclusion Index