Lost Trails of the Cimarron is Harry Chrisman’s folk history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country - southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and the neutral strip of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Buffalo hunters entered the area in violation of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, followed by cowboys and settlers who formed a vast economy based on grass and beef, the beginnings of prominent cattle ranches such as Westmoreland-Hitch Outfit. Chrisman details the history of the outlaws and ruffians of "No Man’s Land" and trail drives to Dodge City and beyond. Numerous illustrations accompany the anecdotes and stories of various frontier personalities.
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Harry Chrisman was a newspaper reporter from Liberal, Kansas, and the author of Fifty Years on the Owl Hoot Trail, Ladder of Rivers, Tales of the Western Heartland, and 1,001 Most Asked Questions about the American West.
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This book is a layman's history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country which encompasses southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and the neutral strip of Oklahoma and Texas Panhandle.Characters included outlaws, ruffians, buffalo hunters, cowboys, settlers, with eventual cattle ranches and resultant cattle drives. Mr. Chrisman chronicles all of the above and more. The book also includes maps and illustrations in the telling of these life stories. Mr. Chrisman was a journalist/newspaperman from Liberal, Kansas, being the author of other books such as Fifty Years on the Owlhoot Trail, Tales of the Western Heartland, and 1001 Questions About the American West, among others. As usual, The University of Oklahoma has done an impressive job with the wrap around cover painting and the general quality of this book. Being the satisfied ownere of hundreds of U of Ok books, this one included, both hardcover and trade it is not possible to overpraise the University and its press. Semper Fi.
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The nature of pioneer life along the Cimarron, whether that of the buffalo hunters or of the cattlemen in the 1870's and 1880's, was not one to produce writers or artists with the time and talent to document their deeds with words and with pictures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neutral strip, roundup captain, road ranch, wagon boss, trail herd, trail boss, cattle range, land shark, ranch headquarters, brand book, longhorn cattle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Beaver City, Crooked Creek, New Mexico, Rock Island, Cherokee Strip, Tom Hungate, Plummer Trail, Fargo Springs, Garden City, Ham Bell, Beer City, Camp Supply, John George, Adobe Walls, Jim Hitch, Oliver Nelson, Bernard Lemert, Grand Valley, Hoodoo Brown, Kansas City, Print Olive, Sharp's Creek, Black Sam, Bob Wright, Burris Wright New!
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The nature of pioneer life along the Cimarron, whether that of the buffalo hunters or of the cattlemen in the 1870's and 1880's, was not one to produce writers or artists with the time and talent to document their deeds with words and with pictures. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
neutral strip, roundup captain, road ranch, wagon boss, trail herd, trail boss, cattle range, land shark, ranch headquarters, brand book, longhorn cattle Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Beaver City, Crooked Creek, New Mexico, Rock Island, Cherokee Strip, Tom Hungate, Plummer Trail, Fargo Springs, Garden City, Ham Bell, Beer City, Camp Supply, John George, Adobe Walls, Jim Hitch, Oliver Nelson, Bernard Lemert, Grand Valley, Hoodoo Brown, Kansas City, Print Olive, Sharp's Creek, Black Sam, Bob Wright, Burris Wright New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Double Cross: A Bert and Nan Tatum Mystery by Barbara T. McCafferty in Back Matter
- Wyatt Earp (Outlaws and Lawmen of the Wild West) by Carl R. Green on page 65
- JOHNNY APPLESEED: A VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS by WILLIAM ELLERY JONES on page 203
- The Hunting of the Buffalo by E. Douglas Branch in Back Matter
- The Cherokee Strip by Marquis James on page 258
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- Cowboy Poets and Cowboy Poetry by David Stanley on page 16, and page 105
- In Dull Knife's Wake: The True Story of the Northern Cheyenne Exodus of 1878 by Maddux Albert Glenn on page 76
- A Peculiar People: The Church as Culture in a Post-Christian Society by Rodney R. Clapp in Back Matter
- Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas by Robert K. DeArment in Back Matter
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