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not 4elleve in trying to get
his nisture teen exiressly for n
rove of e lot or lquic wrItten oilbovt
illfor it lo,k-d like a oers,4n was
ordinary. Vtinr ln t ose
iation," he no,lade *sit looks
nly 74 years old.
of the ftrrly drys when the r:7,ethods
e Winne a ?„eniFil, lrugiting, old
b V he dtdn't 'inow, lush to tr414"
o him bw,rt- ln w-Ite of -Flis serious
ount is In his awn words;
ammo to T*7rSs I: t1fl¼ V.e,J
in Uote4Orde k;ounty dArlim, the
there that tin ,eutie!,,ns were 00,41Ag
thins woold r,111.4 wweln•
eph's is1Pudt
then nt Gonzales
-ftrOWW my neoll, L .kilees
et left t)0A4y. i left
1.4.eonek
11N to ru of emttle up
finally tovlad un Uiere In i?unnels
cowboy
County.
wild ,;Alle.
wnuted 14A
is to get
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nt Jo* for fifteen dialers 6 lohth .nd rode nn old,
,an Perimore lied thie mule along end PS 1 wns liflht he
him. It would take two or three men to hold A.:1 for
And then he would rem to or three miles wefore eleyed
out. I hs ors end eeddle of my own and e reguler outfit of leggin*
And %inure o on. That mule would alloys run till he geve out. then
I would hP worry with kin dragging elong. I spurred him so mob
it made Od old,men Parimore sew that, end told me' i hnd to duet**,
the Tim's. wle kicked my kn$ off but they limde me dawtor him. There
were .out ty-five hundred head of settle on thrt trip. Tj fled our
wegsm, hoz nd Aen ',long, end after we gut the *Attie losrted, I one
Week to GO mnd weut to school sone nova.
6 xt the enring of IMO. e took g16-tt 3,000 erd
of e-t-A.e e?nnhendle. I wee with Z. U. aouston on thrt trip.
tind 9 leg' k ,long end he hied a *um fixed undnr ton wc;41 for wood
allahlINIMID
nnd such -1 suns is s hide stretehed under e wnon to sf'ry things
In. -okit hpd these rawhide mu in those dnys. Az long trile
in thnt so where wood wee so seeress the ti,44k AA every Alois
of wood he d find es he went along, end lut it in %het suns 40 the%
he would ft supAy when he etraek Immo. These sane& were used for
other tAlu hides wood too.
"It t i 01"4 e Of 40110418 or little long -r to eke thPS
drive. T erttle were the old...tine longhorns. Their horns usunlly
mersilred feet or so serous. There w're severe' herds of Houston's
th-S !let
fourteen
them on t
Houston
round old Fort Griffins There -,u**t ,rve,ireen twelve or
nd head in %Wit reande-u14 They cut 41.1t the steers end took
a. Than we look the stock settle on to the Sensh that
,rted Az the HorthHeeestliver ri,ht Wetween the Aims, cn
1,-erempewenessmw"
-cowboy R. L. Astor*
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two, yerrs
rort
ars hPd ax
down there
They tmed t it. to e sertain store is there tons eeil line frora
)(ort Orif
soffen
no
wagon rft,
over the
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dugout.
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Ad be 4W-1
r neh WAS WI big es the ell -out -doors. NJ ody
n those dnys musk. And we got there wlth nivrut five-
eottle. I A% in about three ye.rs there, Pnd there wee
.r sew n wousn's fees. we hooded ursupplies frola Old
_hundred and fifty rules below us. one of the !ratabl*
end -some used horses for freighting. e wosld send
r our nud *offs*. le always hnd zaehty of good beef.
th. Th y could seud m letter down for &wales nnd toe
end them out by the freighters. e vmt-Ireen
mired pound seeks. Noo se newer hnd mny.thin sweet,
van molesses. leereed not to ..rry olosses in the
stover blew out of the Jug once end moles es ell
end every thing else.
ne in those line wimps 401% of the time. e lived in e
t suynotied to be by Ayself but the other fellow 4088
,ht out end le one several dnys nt n time. i ws gloat
sixteen n a irooe, I hed to *ter.. The only wny I nett of entertetning
myi;elf night, I bed.me s skunk '1010 mnde out of wild. Chino.
hare .er skunks tiler. then Any ulnae i. nver t4,1.4 In lite, nnd
would taere nt WOit and thresh skunks. 0na nL714t t!-1, boss
wts ,Tfot nfter n uktink end he run in thf', duc;out. Metttis
be:gnu try in to (,,Tet hiz4 Sut tne old skunk Just et
solne n. ;lid of ell the emanotlin red ?ellinIt took llrae
%tool. le 4ot his q:un nn4 killed him nnd we 11,11 sWhk nil s_)ring.
e ,ezerpl d 74ftef henling uo out side nod thet seewed to be uhnt
drev them.
Nhan k a notion to Ob k to see my Nutter tne,0 were
Cowboy Tsle B. L. Anderson
norsebeek.
ldies of
grein. Lot
horse At Um
wok.
Peg* 4
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"re, 7i. ton fly, end my tielr st-med for Gow_olee
rd one lorse mole,s end mine )leyed out in eeout twelve
He wogs en Old reams -horse end wo4ldn't er!t n iate,or
won't eet groin unt4 they erestmught. I left ay
someone brought him damn to :leo :4t I didn't ride
first trein book. I went to Alsvny)esout ten or
twelve tie Fort ,,,riff no end we took n husk from there.
"There
uston
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Then thny t
whleh wrs t
on to tat
ren46 tiert
04004it City.
"1 we
Aire fo,r
Allo worked
two Houston 4rotherei I. 14, who
orKrided te NN end the
v4o wes pertner with Lemons end rnded T41.
i re till Yebruery when they sold the rRneh out to
te omueny. The lest ;inter I s9, --a tuereo t?ley left as
rm of it till they got it14 •cr,ey Ulr it. I:hey sold
0 ftild ,c)t it in 41141d6 I fOrrmi how t ey paid Illi4en
bed. Than they hed to ',it out e week for the 'Deism,
Oomn to Oonseles then end we sterted bc,1111 ul the trail
with P herd oe steers.
gegetered the 4-1teers down there
Lemmases, hid aloneete honored set of horses.
with wee to go to tensor, 'gut t4ey !led 111,4%wht two or.
ven-thousead heed, end we weite,,i there till the;' errAo up.
Ur herd of steers end weAll on to enses Srom LOMIPhima
no414,:e City Trail. And WO
the -Pecos ver
e eropsed over vv -to 0005
1e the NA reneh. Thel we.
took theirstmrd e,d went
County end eiolisLed e
north of Fort toskton toward
wee ell oeen rAnge there.elso.
old vequero umkin g *Soot thirty duller); then. There
k)Jys e:d s MouAt settle when we first went it there.
renek Iat we Ited our ova tre4d. e moved 1.irt of 0ur
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cattle down to the Henry Paskenham ranch to the rough part of the Pesos
River country. We stayed there with Henry Paskenham about a year. He
had a cedar-piGket house covere4 /with grass, and we flew in there and
helped him nut up another roma. He had a room about twelve or thirteen
feet high and Am had an old beef hide stretched up ia the top of the roan
for a sort of ceiling. He told me how that hide same there. He said
he had an old steer that got to leading his settle off and he said one
day he found him with a bunch of his- settle way up on one of those high
peaks. So he just killed the steer and skinned him, and drove the cattle
on book. I usid to cow hunt with Paskonham. He later bought a big ranch
down on Indepeadence Draw. He was a mighysood man. There Was nothing
unusual about his appenranse; about average height and rather dark
complected. H* had lived alone mush of the time and I have seen him sit
for hours and never say a word.
"when we first started up the NA ranch we only had a little old !dobe
shack but we btilt a four -room limber hOuee in about a yenr after we got
there. 709 drove our beeves to Kansas in the spring. Beeves never sold
by the pound then, just by the head. I know one herd we drove, we got
fifteen -fifty e head for the -they were aged longhorns, some of them
twelve years otd. They would average around nine -hundred and fifty pounds,
I suppose. But if they had been fat, some of them would have weighed
twelve or thirteen -hundred pounds. I stayed on that ranch until 1895,
but I had sold out to my partners down at Packenhaate and bought an.
interest in the Houston ranch about 1890. In about 1893, I took a herd
of beeves up the trail to Kansas. The herds were getting smaller then
for the aountrt was getting all tensed up and it was lots of trouble to
get those big herds tArough. Our ranch was in about twenty-five miles
of Fort Stocktba and after I took the settle vn the trail, and 1pme
cowboy Titles ...-H. L. Ander***
Nve emne in north of Fort tosktos ea the e*lcRose
to town, they were goimg to UoVO a pleat* is et'the
so I decided to no. I met Lee Mary Crosby ea %bat tray.
in 1894, e lived in Yort 300So* little eliiite eit4 Shoe I
A
trail the following yepr ego's. I 'peat .to Amarillo 1410 e herd Ube
taffla to e follow named Oenerel Meads 80 lose ea MagileUisa eel bad e
rowek in the% sountry. He woe the soar deaorel Meet wk. west %sib to
Itaglend whoa the ',orld ler broke out and Weed ALLOOlf delotere
me end his folks oat there on that 'each were irpiiieUr
tied n big outfit theirs mad spent 10$s ofmaw ea %bet Semob, Of MU
%ripe kin the trail, the% trip wee the hareeet pee* Ihepe bee some it
jest before se started end all the wladallio bad bees Moil liewa sad
wpm difficult to find weter anywhere. After I veSeeeill a hisWei the
locos River end otrted.out serene the pietas, there weda renew
as and told 30 'bout the seereity of votef-aad egad IMMO* WO *MO.
went by his ranch, we wouldn't get valor at ett• armor we SUOMOCOfts
sever Ewald got strrted beck the otter way. loo eat fordo* %be 'OM.
New ax too to the LY rolneb and sot water %bore. This. aim heatt eagle
as being in there elith e herd pad as they Imre old Mesas of Ads.
seat ALA of their nen to solle nildt, as thread* the wasitry• They
e self for as nad treated us ptilitikfiss 010/110 vs Weriliker44
m/s struck the Capital nyadieste NOM* Ilbea 0114 t$s. flummod 11,1
worse then Puy I ever any end they wee14811 4111 to throe. Share stall
10 turned south to Lubbosk end got supplies there. irkeeb as. e
bleekseith shop end neybe s elt-deites hewer. The aestiiiheatddilhire
any be, oa for as mad had to send 10 elmoshor tows ter It W.
stay there for awhile beano e there ass wet*. I bed boa
three horses down every day boating water for tie bort
..owhoy eles L. 1-d r on
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mershent sent for thr beoon we needed, we stryed aloha in rnd welted.
%Non then, e fellow tried to run me jrr e. we hod the arttle on his mush
close to the town. told him I wowld sure wtry there end fight hi4 for
m cl!.y or teo. weu en old oowpwaeher he sew the eondition end weld
ne didn't Ar;qvi
oh,ut or ten bends in the outfit end one wrgon end
tnose
old steers etrmpeded'every night OR the% trip. knd ebGut thft
worst 4A,;Iede
evrx
$141 WM rIght.on %hot trip. They *tare did rino
''nud vollhn't tr'r749 the nettle unless I would m4xee to toke the herd
ul to the 'Il404. ue h'un't bed nny rein on km from the t1:40 we left
the f(tAii till we ot up there end the night we•strrted to 'rleudts reheh,
the. orttle hegrn runnIntl. Thrl run'ell nirh rw. it wets in thelshinnery'
,-hd tart Is rh nnful 'qPfle to oed aettle 06 there is so vlsoll to siern.
tem. tx't we f,..(1 with °en end i don't thin thrt we iot but ebout
ffhr rd. The next dry, I wos wt ebOwt e couple of ilea from the hrgon
with e lern. There wns nn mwful good aowlmn -Tith n th,,t trip end
we held thing* to reter A•atty well. The settle were in ehout bre* or
Ounoftes hht we got theA ell Oeek together Pgein. I never oulled off my
ir:/ota once till 'otter we delivered those eottle rtd l•frided 'em out.
01whin 'es from rensos one tie, we were I•imijne the oroes end
O -o F*iici were eomine, overland We hP4 one b y with us in the
outfit i01R P the territory end he we elwnys tn1A.nr rbout the Indians
tr.: n to mtr,nlede Vat, °PAU, mad whet he %Juld do ,Ath one. but the
Irst nli-ht we were goiW: to stmy in the territory we were em !,ed Ate
t f,Qc1 of e. r e we 1-ept the horses under herd. I hen e Yexiorn out—
fit rione rnd hne or the ^xieens was vane to c.7,0 w-ke tits fellow up
to strnd gnerd. I let the fellow go out there end I took the
exianen went out rround the herd end a* it wrs .1retty dr-r1.7, we laid
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down on our horses end went riding nround theA horveu so this fellow would
*se us. le wms striding 4 his horse /hiking his smddle end when he sew
us, he begrn looking susnisious end stepped un on his horse. -4e yelled
end n run for him. He didn't know whet to do so he ren right towerd
us. ',hen he passed us, we turned end took efter him and run him ri:ztvt
Into t4t 'xenon. The exienns et the wegom thought it wns Indians, of
corse, ':id they racily seettereds I finally oeught his bor,,e 4 the bridle
ber)re he reeoellik,ed ,44e. Alen he sow who it west he knew why I he done
it hut I told hith I Just took otter him to what on erth wee the matter
with him.
"In atiohe 1n,s when e cowboy went to town, there w s nbuolutely no
oleee for him t go hnless he went to the saloon. Once. in Peeos ,7ity
went Into A seloon end there wes nn Astlew, Clay Ailison,in the seloonh
wrs sitting down end he arms over end out his foot tio in ay lep end there
wrs notAlcw fur ae to do, but to hold his foot. 1 ems just e kid rad be
wns nn older men rd )ie wms as bed. e :Ent is there was in those deys.
"I knew jo'In esley Perdin too. I wrs Just A kid when he weu doing
111 his laerialsh but he went to the pea end steyed tor fifteen ymers end
when he ,ot out .let arm, beak to Gonza3es and sterted preotleing lew. le
t'ot into enother row with the sheriff end hed to leeve. Tie took un the
:hinistry efter thet.
_orrik;
*Ps
ofA 72ity
441s c bed one but they killed hia. gene
we en outlew too rhd 1.11ed nnother sheriff there by the nels of Bud
Frnzier. Frezier wes sheriff et Pesos city for m long tiAce but he weyleid
Aller end shot hilh throulh the era but miller (,;ot his pistol out end
stnrted for Frezier but Yrezier rnn elemr ewey. The second tiwa Frezier
tried to lira, it turd out mbout the sea. wry. Frmzier :luit the office
leter cud rftat 1, to Toyeh end one dey, he erqe ino town end wen in m
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poker eaae. Somebody .went down to Pecos City and told Miller where brazier
was and iller ot a shot -gun and went up to Toyeh and went to' the place
where Frazier was. He Pushed open the door with his gun and shot Frazier's
herd off. He had iUed sevral men up to Cult time and alter thet he
killed two or three nor..
,.bout 1895 we moved from Fort Stockton to midlAkd. I Jought a home
in town and leased the UL ranch from Ural. Homey. it was about seventy
thousand acmes. The* we began to raise white-faced cattle. We ranched
there about ten yarns. or two children, Roberta snd Dunn, were born there.
"I sold out to Iola orrie, the old pecker. They eethered that seventy's
thousand acre pasture everything in it ss end turned it over, paid for
it and fTat the money in the bank in one day. It's all open country up
there. 711 n we ;A5r.,getheririg'those.cattle, I bought me a barrel of balls
rnd when I'd catch one of those old outlaw steers, I'd bell him. I told
tie boy, 'Now, when you hear one of those bells, you stny with him till
you
e rope on him.' You'd hear bells rihging ell times of the day and
night. ometiltes yom'd see en old boy take out after a steer and ;Iaybe
run him nearly down, but he'd stay with him till he caught him. Tom White,
who eaTped with us on the Pesos and helped start up the oid NA brand, was
living in :,:idlpnd end when .l. was rounding up, he came out and helped me sell
out. He said he belied start the brand and he was going to help sell it
out. (J1d Nelsorris' ranch was joining we and he sent a an over to buy
some cows off of Ae. This fellow was Morris' foreman but I didn't ?mom it.
He said he wanted to buy some 'lows to take to Kansas. I wouldn't sell then
to him. I told hi ri was going to sell all those enttle to '4Ad Nola Morris.
:orris' men OnA0 down and looked at the cattle end they phoned we bask
thet they wanted the settle and wanted them delivered onday. That was
Seturday. le rounded the cattle up and had them there Monthly. That ended
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ion'Fortner tip. I had been wttb HOiktofl $1flQ tvms
nnd I was forty then.'
-annd wee *old nnd the Gatti-, diapokied Jf, we ammo to Uvalde.
U three or Viur plaoes slotted r.rcund Uvelde for AO to
d t the WAngum, Vauban end 0od1ey rnnabes but tuey weren't
2 trusk Ton 'ansey here from, Orern. 17new him in the
AO not to lenve so soon me therm WRIsi lot* of good aountry
ailed up hinn who WRS a reel eGtnte dePler then. de
iper end mut rneh on the luectes ownad by All 'ay. It
mvary wny arid I bought it. I ke7t it twezity-Jne yenrs And
neon sold it for ma to frenk narews fur the 7amble
d to Uvalde in 1911 nnd hove been here evar ulnae.
o J04
the Huston-knclel-
4*ixteen ym-rsoL
"°fter oar
1:1(1 (-)lavV41
look rt. r100:.
1101%I weted.
3c0,6 Rad he tot_
mrotnd e sc he
&hawed e the 01(
just salted
rtripaly Hp,Alter
Cony. e loy-