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OeutlIter„Sheldon j.
hengelore.
Terrent Coo.Dist4,07
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Paige W1
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Henry Young,72,wes born Feb,24,186b,et
Austin,Trevis GooTexes, His tether Tees Cherlel-;
Jaoung„ 14 NoW ivAI- 0cik"1"1 ryc Co
Young's &milli moved to Coryell Capin
the yew 1870. Four yePrs lvter he rn ewey
from ht_ A end went to Coloredo,City,Texes, There
he sec:. ed work on the /CA.; renchowned by
EAU Adeir0Whioll wes loorited .4rtst of the town,
he rempireld there for four yeers,
lie returned home efter-his four veers
stey on the- 'CA..' rench end then smgeged in
'tethering herds for Ce;wtoin Mosby„which were
driven to Minims mirket points. This work T:e
did for flip, yeers„
its ended his range cereer After meking
n drive of b,000 herd of oettle to ihn Little
powder orn kiiver district of Montene.
is story rr'nce life followo:
ntfy fethers5!. name Eit aeries J.Young. he moved from
Enstucy to Texes at close
Austin„Trevis Co, for e time
of the Civil
He lollowed
.er end we lived in
peintine for e live-
wrs born et Auhtin„Peb„24 18680 end When I wee five
yeers old dad loedeu the &telly Into e covered wrponsbPuled by
p teem of hoones, end sterted out to look for a new location,
he wentnd to build e home on a piece of lend end re -r ti -J1 feMily
of e farm. There were three of us one rril end two boys.
drifted eround t1:e-courtry for ehout r monthrthen
'ended in Coryell Co,12 miles ,(Ost of Cetesville.
"Father settled on e piece of lend end set to pet
some settle. That section was P free renge end critter'
everwhere„ Durinv the time father wee getting life pl
he worked for verious rrnobes in thrt
salted to work e'
"I woe so set on getting
deuthier.Sheldon P. Pimp 2
Rengelore. FC 240
Torrent Co..1Jist..#7
the honk -ring oeused me to jump ded's oorrell.just as wen reeehing
my tenth yeerond shout he time he WP3 reedy to stert getting
herd of critters togeth4r, t40. hod few saddle bosses end other things
fixed to handle mottle.
"One night I Olied s 50 pOund flour sack half full of chuck
and some olothesoneskOd s hose out of the pen.put s pigskin saddle
on it end rod iwsy.hesided Northweet. I was certain thrt dna would
tiril me.end fetch me home if he Oaught up W th me. "o I hid out
during. the day r and Old my riding it night. I used th- North Star
end e forked stick to loop my belrings. That way I Old not get
turned around end kept going in one direction. I dodged off the
trail whenever I hero anyone Øomirg. Finelly at the enu of a Week
I 'flowed _I woe for enough sway to b- safe from dad end showed my.
self in e town. It was Colorado -.;ity.200 miles from home. Ihe
first oarson that I sew.fro0 tl-,e time tat I left home until I
reached the town, wes. s party thrt run a livery stable there.
."On that urrg from klomo, to Colorado City,' *P117 nothing .hut
oettlep000esiOnelly a herd of buffalo.* hero of enteloneve flock
of turkeys en, other wild game.
"I starteu to ohl0 with the livery stable fellow end the
first thirg I solo WWI:
"there can s ile110; get a job?"
,,hat can you
"Anything thrt anyOne else can". I tolu him.
I wesn't bigger ticlan e pitA of oider.never was over 150
pounds when full growi, Ilie fellow laughed end pointed to ó double
Well running tiest.got"g up a gentel raise, out of town. Le said,
Oguthierosheldon P.
Rent-elore.
Terrent CoveDist„,117
Age 43 "24r
tb t trail. The two run to$Jotheripmeloso by cowhands riding
side by stee,to enu from the swat 'end other renchee• khe trail will
leed you to the It anyone in the section will hire you Ail
Adair will'
"Pronto I lit out and tended at the 'CA..,' outfit late thet
evening, I rod up in rrort of thr home.house, 111 was e big stove
building ,en I hollerrd 'hello', women cam- to the door and said:
i'llowdypstrengerowhet for you?'"
Is the bosn man at hornet"
"'No, not. nowsbut I expect him in a short time, Light end
cool your seddle, come in erp make yourself comfortable I em
cookig supports° YOU ell will hrve to exeune me. My husband will
be 4n 17,7: supper time'!„
"I lit Off my ho ns enu followed her into the -!ouse., there
I could smell tN, chuck cooking and that got my typo worm reel
excited, IVad run low on °buck sin was hankering for chuck right
snort.
"-.1-.110 Mrs Adeir wee fixing the grubeshe would step in,
now and then, IMO esk questions. She asked. we Whet I wonted to
see her husbpnd ebouto I told her I WV3 looking for op job. I
could see thrt sort oe surprIseck her, She asked me my name and
that I didn't went to tell Verobecause I reckoned keeping my
name a secret would prevent dad from finding me, I sold to her
4I would rather not tell my name,' She didn't say pnythinv for a
minuteebut wen smiling end then said:
"thy don't wla went to tell me your name t dou don't look
like a fellow thrt would rob a bank'"
-Geuthie Zheldon
Longelorivring the meal he sked for my name end wtere ge440rom,
Tarrant Gor,iiistr,d7
I told bAmtho 1060 an
"Ne,I have stele nothing,but don't'went dad to find me",
"A run away boyrere you?". I had to admit it,
*It was not long until Adeir dragged in and when he saw me
he asked his wife;
.P191, -ere did you get this hi r men?"
he lit e short spell oil) end in looking for o job". he
told him. ite leuged end spido'I tpink he is more interested in
some chuck at thIs-mlnUte then s job'.
*Mrs Adair told us to get reedy _Or suoper. All took me
outsiderbeWd the house, Ore was e poll of water end o wrshpan.
4 washedothen went to lining our flue -Adair sold to me as we
took our seetWaenerelly a good' worker, can do e g000 job of opting,
now show me WilPt you can do",
*That vern tin best looking chuck elms the best t-st:L:
ing
that I how, ever nturfed into my mouth. -*Alen I finished Adair said
'You can handle the ohuek elrIghtl.
*DNriny the meal he asked for my name end where I won from.
I told hlm tho loom as 1,014 his wife. "e kept after merseying that
he must hrvr-- my name. 'I have to oellyouroon't lust soy here fellow'.
be seld. ,-4A I stayed nut pro finally hn sold! 'KW you have plenty
send in your gizzard',
"4 agreed thnt I had to be polled somethingoo must fix up
e nvme. Le named um Lilt Pint. Lmersonrend that name I hod for four
years.
*The next morning, pfter,breekf,st, he seld0Come on "elf
Pintrwe ore going to town', 4 went to the pen end saddled two
bosses. I suggested that I use my own oigskin seddlerbeoeuse the
Otftrape were eat to my sive. ut he would have none of itrse7ing
Grut ler.sheldon 7,
Lengelore,
Torrent Co waist„07
Pogo #5
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t "e use reel seddles eround hereto Le pulled the stirrups up
es far es they would go end then tied to mrke extre toles in the
strops before we could get e fit,
e went to Goloredo City, £te first thine be did was to buy
me e peir of aelifornis pants, The kind of pents r11 cowhands wore
those dpys in thet section. The petits were mode from beery woolen
plaid cloth "e bed the pants belf.sibledes we celled it, That
Ars to reinforce the.eort with soft leetheroo they would stand
the srddle Weer,
"Nothing heo been sold ebhut work since the night Wore,
when he *rid thet /;%11/323 more interested in chuck then works
bAhen he boUght the !Dents I ealculeted t hod V,nded e job
end -Wes es henr,y ok. en oystor, in its shell, Le next took me tn 7.A•
bomotbe boot meker„who v4s reohoned next to Pete hemmersmithof
5eltonos being a top bend making. boots, Me.bouent me e $12 psir
of beetz.46bri 1 ';',8 John 5 Stetson bonk cover end $12 peir
of spurs No *loot bought me benders end s jep silk horkerchief
for e neoktie,
It ben he finished rigging me out he mid stNow, "elf Pint,
ell this in ch-rged to you pd your we gee •sterted this morning
it eft e month, I know tbrt I hrve hire° the too cowhend in these
pertst„ felt es big end es -.000 es piny of them,
tihat is how I got stertod in the cow 1usiness„ hetet first,'
took Okierge of me rnd I rot A.th him. Ile avowed me the tricks end
wes pert teacher. It was not long until I could go on my own,
I then teemed up with.4ess 4ettles end we worked together ell the
will. thet I stk-yed on the /CA -9
tiouthier.Obeldon Fe rage .4 6
Fongelore• -PC 240
Torrent (4„Dist.107
grezeu critters over about 60 sections of lend,
running around 10,000 heed* There were 16 steady benos end extre
hpnds wps hired during bronding Season. :vie bends lived in s log
rench -oust,* The house where the herds lived wee celled the retch
house end the owners home the rench hameror Bunts =mho
the ranch house we s%ept on bunko snd we wpddies hed to
tske core of our dump. w4, hod our own cooky. Dog !Peer is the only
nemerI recall, we hpu for him, 'Le was e gooc, cook end mode dandy
sour.dough breed* wps s good been cook too. Lots of times he fixed
us been -hole boons, Thst Is boons cooked in s hole, bog Foca
would dig o hole in the ground,line the hole with stonerbulld s
fire in the hole And keep it burrin for several hours, those
stones wbuad get pipping hot end then the hole w -s reedy for the
beens, Ile out the br,ons into en iron kettle with e tight cover nnd
cover it with send, 'there they would be left for several hours.
UV seasoned the whistle -berries with broon ono molasses. I em
telling you thole beans were"f4tting" to est. Beefrbeens, s few
°en vegetphles, Pnu dried fru4t wee the chief chuck on which we
lived, 4 -elf of rti time we rte the chuck sittin,,, on our hunches
behind the olvok wegon,
"Aaeir diu the top -screw work end we s swell fellow to
work for, All the waddles sore by ill. The second year
wen thProrhe turned me loose to uo my tur, line rioing,night or
dopy, Pnd ell other work,
"Luring my entire stPy with the outfit we never hind p brd
stampede. Me reason for thet WPS thpt Adair kent his herd cleaned
of beef orittererso there never seem my old steers, ibe herd
jsut ler.nheldon F.
For, ore.
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we mostly breeding eaws end yearlings end those cr'tters ere not
so quick on the run. Itris the steers, thrt pre yeor oldend up,
Clot ere Plwoys Iooktng for en excuse to run,
In thPt section, et thot t1we, were the Oriffinteuntons,J.P•
Evens outfits. The'Lezy:Vrowned by alb Sloughter end his brother,
end the Certer outfit whidh was simony the blest renches, They
run proulid 30,000 heed.
"Thot crowd of men run thpt country, ihey made the rules add
inforced them. Them follows were o souaro bunch thpt gplie ev-ry.
body ohonce„but tI'my,stood their ground end beaked up tileir low
with e six-gun and thpt they were p-1,, to do.
%41.1,Ing the yepra of 1874-6.6 ,the,price of eptle wee so
low thPt ii/rtlers did not bother beef stock mustoo i did no4lh
doeilnp with the kind. But the boss rustler was busylobeciume good
Moses VPS in demend end there were lot of good onimels in that
section,
"The system followed by thpt bunch of men in the Colored°
City section„during the time I woo therPowes/to get the goods on
the rustler ond then go to the fellow pru tell him to stop it
pro to. Iltor they went to nitti.fy o rustler ,they went unmosked„
there wee m secret.obout their work. If the rustler continued
he woulc. be bung up to dry,o0 given, short course in Ottisenship.
"I must tell fbout.two degas with rustlers to show how they
were delt v/ith.
"There WP3S fomily thrt hrci, m r000 reputation in thet
section,!lut the -two bays of the family were cauphT up with rustling
bosses. AdeiroUvons end Sleughterewent to the boys home and told
i.ieuthier,Sbeldoh P.
Atligelore•
Torrent Go,,Dist,.#7
ge 8
PC 240
them to ston steeling, Afterwards they were seen in the act spin,
tit number o men went to the boy's horne.ro. demanded thet
they come out, iliutythey refused, They were in the attic of the
log house and it was dengerous to go in after them,beceusetthe boys
could brand everyone that steppad lariat*, lbw ordered the prrents
to move their furniture outsideelf they n'enten it srve4„which they
did. 'Chat bein done Lire Wti.' CI set to the house, The boys soon
came running out end were shot down. That lok house VIPS reploced
ibtry the folks.-
-Another young lad oontirurd rustling hosnes after billing
notified, lie v.v,s placed on his ho ss end a rone around his neck,
with one end of the rope tie t a limb the ho-ns w.,s driven out
from unner him, there he ps left,
"Adair moveo his ratio, to ;„ew exioo,ir. 1878. 1-;.e had reduced
.his herd to around 4,000 end we drove these to the foot of the
Capiten i4ounteins, Thot is about 60 miles .,orthwest• of hoswell•
ibe herd oonetsteci of breeding cows end thr, bulls. ‘ie had several
Vb.
little runs,but each was easily handled. e arrived there
the herd in good shape end a very few lolt•
''After the drive to the Capits!_ Uountsin seetion,I quit and
returned home at ‘iatesville. I had been gout four years and bad
Increesed in 'size from a half pint to about a quart, It Was just
getting -dusk PS ',rod un la front of the house. I followed the',
euetotr o those deys end hollereatehello".
'II sow mother come to the door and she enswereds
strenger,het be you. ell wanting?'"
Can I stay th night with you all?"
OeuthIrr.Zheldon F.
Uengelore.
torrent Co.
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rc 240
1"%ight end come in, I hrve never turned e stronger away -yet
end nrey God will never let me". .Zhe said.
"I took my hossipthe same 0145 I rod swsy on, hrok to the
yard er4 stilted itothen walked into the house. I kept 4-.J13.
or end sort of pulled it over my eyes. nother plased a °heir in
front of the fire piece end aeldelreat .;our self strringerl.
":7he ,i:ert in the kitchen end came back with r coal -oil
lamp. .bet sl-le placed -n the mantel. 4J1 Ile s',8e, s fixin t.
licht It she golfed:
"/-11at may your name beystreneer?"
'They cell me Leif TAnt umerson
Ir
Jipre you ar fromtc''
"Prom the -est'
"1 I hive s 1-oy,enry.L.'enry Yout4, la Ills none. 14, left here
four years 'REo afd we heve not heard hide or heir from him sinoe,
t,Y chance you mry hPve met up with terry?"
hen she asked the lest question the lamp wrs lit and she
tad turned around end Was looking straight et me. She evidn't welt
far me to answerebut sated. /Are you Lenryil I beget) to smiln end
mouth
at the same time tears orowoed my eye.e and the corners of mgc/begen
to quiver. i!efore I oottLj. sema or she sole ')apd he blessed me
Its my bot1.
soor come in end he was °leaned to find me back. In foot,
he tooted sort of proud of me. I him oeleulatea on getting a piece
of his mild end was mighty glad of the lsome home.
"After taut g the folks what I had been doing,AJed told me
I had returred just in time for work. Geptein ak Mosby was buying
Gouthier.Soldon F.
hengelore.
Torrent Co,. ist..0
pp ge #10
Fc 240
in that section end (led wrs herding•those for him'entil he hrd'\
enough to make s driving herd.
"I went to work gpthering critters for Vosby end followed"
thrt work for five years. The lost yopr I took cheror of o
.korn
5,000 Lerd thet we drove through to the Little Powderfhlver,beer
Miles tIciltrne, I deltevered the cattle to Tom Treywiek,e *oxen.
who WPS top.sorew for Hal Mosby on the Montane roneh.
"It toek me 18 months to make the round trfp, I ves 12
Morthe making the drive thereond my loss Wes 150 critters. All
my 'ions we cowed from foot.sore,erd those critters we hr d to
dilve It we reckoned es e top job of drivir-.
"We main meson for the g od drive woo due to t -e kind of
critters it4) hrd. he en/mels were ill first cings stock. ihen we
het; frirvepther during the firnt tem months of the drive, Dmr.
tliPt ti -vi the enimels become use to the drive end worked
er7Illy end continued to be less troublesome os we went *long.
The few sceres thet we hed,thet the critters storte,;. to runt -we
got the herd to millirg end settled down pronto, tolls° hpd
good bunch of bends thot knew how end when to do things 4, There
were 14 nf us. I used two weddies in the lerd rod four men on
orn
torch point. -11et I meen by the point is the men thotfrod et the
nide ,of the herd to keep the critters pointed pheed. I bed two
weddle3 es extre men to tpke the big end oL nipt riding. I had
e hogs wrorgler end e cooky,er that constituted the crew, In
thPt crowd was Jim 4411„ the cooky, lam Verdoiom 5mith,Jim *eerie
A
Jock Pervy end Joe "Erenks that I redell their names,
the others
were celled by their ntoknemes,such as Cendy„Blecky end the likes.
Gouthier„holdon
ngelore,
T*rrrrti;o,..4013t
Peg. Till
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n -e cralseuth AIeUAver et a.ceni crossing rnu drnve
through the -esterr pert of the territory on into Kansas, v4e
Crossed the hrkonse3 River neer Liberty nnU the Republices in
Nebreske 4)st-of 1.1oceln, e crosse. the Plett Elver neer North
PlPtt elld then hit in to Sel;ek,Oirting the lrok Hills on the
rest end then into litoming„ from there we trrveled North into
the Mlles City„Mont,section, By the time we errived those critters
hed leerned to swim like e bunch of setae, t first we hrd e.pert
lot of trouble crowding thr er'sveln into the weter,but es we 1,ent
eV.:nok.;3rossing otree m rfter.stresm, they finellY took took to
the wrter when We hit streem without hesiteting,
-1-,en. I eturned horneortter t t wen sort of_ feu
up or crttle work erd got .to h-rkrring for something else, I we
trying to sok, up my mind whet wonted to do end decided to
JigPle over into the /Amble aount-in section, eround tonewelleGo,
end 1oo thrt counrty over, Tom Smith WPn With me end we hit
for the Double mountsin 4Aench for sort Of -P friendly cell end
meybe f-0 to work if they reeued herds, n that tr'p visa the only
time I ot en Indio oere during the whole time I we on the renge,
ff 0 hpU rrriveU In the section of the mouble Mount In 1,-nch„
but vies lostops fer 83 the locetitv, of the rench wra co-cerned,
heti vent s dry tryine to ret our berri;gs mu hed not met up with
s soul. .0 wAls aff the regulrr trona end thrt won the rerson for
our toubles, Eru siept thet night with the tepe worm yelling
for foodobeoeuse we run short of (Wuck, khe next morning we run
onto s bunch of oritteraohich W'oweu thrt we getting beck where
we should belobut the proper direction WPS still s mettrr of chence,
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we poled the orlittersothe first thought thet entered our conks,
WVIS to line our flue. 'ee picked out s celf,thet would mtke s nice
veel roest„ rnd rope 4 It, .4ben the rope smeerea'the cl.i.ttervit let
out r bewl fitt kept/it upoof couree, until we hmd cut its r-rOst.
About thet time we *maid treveling llosses end, looked uppco.Ang
over n reise 1:4tre 4 blanch of Indians heeded streight'for use
viewer Otepeed to toke our roe off tte colf,but hit for-
hnseee end dreggird of with the Indieno followin-• us. :e rod_SItout
e mile when we spied 0 drew end into thf,t we hit pronto,
'mounted end run off epieoe from ow- hoeses, e found e rock which
e-ve us e hiding pleGC. .Esoh of us took of''" our cortridge
thnse we pieced in I.rot of us end got our six.shooters reedy, :e
orlculeted on :getting ell the Indians we could before we went down,
hen' we left Air_ hossesst e indlions went into e huddle.
They vire gestIduleting end pointinf7 towards Where we re. Of course,
we reckon4d thrt they Were trying to decade on the best move to get
us without getting brooded themselves. iTinelly three of them stert.
ed to ride towrrds usjra Ono of them bed e reg tied on his gun
holdine it in the eir. Thet inuiceted they wonted e perley 1,nd
we let thA three come up to us.
The Indiens, were Tonkswesond of course friendly. Cne of
them could tplk gnglish to be eeslly understood. "e told
us they Jes,, e hunting perty comped ,iver the hill and thrt when
they heard the calf, beWt they thought it wee p wolf pullinFldoWn
e self. Amp they:sewjus run they reelized thot they hed scored
up from our mesa end wentee to catch up with us to telI is they
ment no berm. 40 retuned for our rope end they directed us to
aouthier,heldon F.
erpelore.
ierrnrt Go„v6iist,,u7
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the rnnch, I stryea nt the yrnch three deys end- returned hcmcgobut
Lmith went to work,
I .heve sold ebout covers ell my dealings wit ths rove.
A shor spell eft -r thrt went to work rellropaing ena thvt I follow-
ed the rest of my naive life,
"her e is,os more t"ring I wentTto _mention na thrt Is the
rtegIng the cowbeilds worspexpectelly the bendiennn, I hove been ask*
ed time end time igein nbout Why the cowherd WOE.A e bepaonms
erouna h •s neck..Pome folks believe it v.es wore es en ornament of
dress, -ell, thn bendenno wen not wore _for look, It wrs e usful
nrrt of oui•-• flgiqng end we usda it in. meny different ways. qhen
the cov4isnd weZ owPY from the rnI;ch house it wt!!s use Ps 0 t0I401.
4fter,r8P/Merm we woAd Ape on thn bendenne ono then hong it
or the nub, of he anaale to dryond there It 2;ould dry pronto, In
e pinch Itvirs used so o tie stringor p bfli100g, in cee of P WOuna,.
It ToPS 1190d to protect :the eyes from thP sun il.erev'cy nulling it
up ovnr the frog, just under the epss, Also, by pulling it closs
pround the reok aurIng:p roin storm t7le bondarcre keeps tiAll rein
from dripping ,:_own ydur meek, It el, o, keeps ti -le wlna,from ilow..
inE_dowu; the neck Prd 0111111nv the.finee
4
w2 1. t
bOy$ wore
henkershief for dress porpose.
Thet wws whet we selled,tose drys., the jep silk hankerchiefrIt
was used es a neektierbeceuse it wrs ersily weshed era dried end
woubd rot tirinkle ell out of shrpe. It met the cowhonas needs in
thrt it could be kept Ole -n e,ally by him.er4 looked good,
"The big het is thn proper conk covet for one livin utside
in this Southwest :country, Vuring, the summer when the old hooter