Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. Records Paperback - 1997
by Laban Samuel Records; Ellen Jayne Wheeler (Editor)
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I was born at Milton, Switzerland County, Indiana, 8 July 1856, the youngest of eleven children.
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At age fifteen, Laban Samuel Records (1856-1940), the youngest of twelve children, moved west with his family from Indiana to Kansas. About sixty-six years later, writing in pencil on Big Chief tablets, he remembered this move and his other western experiences through the year 1892, when he settled with his wife and children on the claim he had staked in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Run. In the intervening years, Laban was a freighter with his brother on the Santa Fe Trail and a cowpuncher in the Dodge City stockyards. 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. Because of Laban's firsthand knowledge of people and events, his account adds a new perspective to several infamous episodes. For example, he barely escaped the raid by Dull Knife and other Cheyenne warriors in 1878, and he knew the participants in the Medicine Lodge bank robbery, the Talbot raid at Caldwell, and the Potts-Franklin shootout on the T-5 Ranch. In addition, Laban recounted many affectionate and often humorous stories about Outlet ranchers such as Maj. Andrew Drumm, Outlet cowpunchers such as Charlie Siringo, Texas trail drivers such as "Shanghai" Pierce, and western writers such as Thomas McNeal of the Medicine Lodge Cresset, Scott Cummings (the "Pilgrim Bard"), and Pawnee Bill. But perhaps most memorable are Laban's stories of everyday cowboy life: herding cattle with his dog Shep, riding his favorite horses, and surviving the rigors encountered by everyone on the western range - tornadoes, rattlesnakes, cold and snow, outlaws, and hard work.
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- Title Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. Records
- Author Laban Samuel Records; Ellen Jayne Wheeler (Editor)
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
- Date 1997-09-15
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780806128726 / 0806128720
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.02 x 6.01 x 1.14 in (22.91 x 15.27 x 2.90 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: Plains
- Geographic Orientation: Kansas
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 94037534
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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