Cherokee Outlet Cowboy Recollections by Records Laban Samuel (26 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.75.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 1.3.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 370 pages, maps, illustrations. Records was a freighter on the Santa Fe Trail, a cowpuncher in the Dodge City stockyards, escaped the Dull Knife raid in 1878, and staked a claim in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Run.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 370 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Includes dust jacket. Signed. Flat signed by Ellen Jayne Maris Wheeler on title page.inscription from family member to mother on mother's day. Jacket in Fair condition with tear. No markings on text. Historic Oklahoma Bookstore on Route 66. Packages shipped daily, Mon-Fri.

Hardback. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Hardback bound in cloth-covered boards with red title on the spine. No defects to note on the book or the dust jacket. Book is INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY EDITOR EllenJayne on the first end to former owner. Illustrated with black and white photos. At age of 15 in 1871 Laban Records relocated with the family from Indiana to Kansas. About 66 years later he recorded his experiences in pencil on a tablet. This was edjted and published in 1995. 370 pages including the Index. Size: 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Inscribed by Editor. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo; 370 pages.

offwhite full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings (except for editor's inscription). dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped (no price listed). nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. first edition. first printing (#1 in # line). SIGNED with an inscription ("To Jack") by the editor "Ellen Jayne Wheeler" (Records' grand~daughter). xx+370p. 20 b&w illustrations. 5 maps. notes. bibliography. index. biography. autobiography. memoirs. american history. history of oklahoma. santa fe trail. american indian history. ~ "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. Laban concludes, "The great open range that I knew so well, worked on so hard, and loved so much . [has] vanished, as have the signs of the old cow trail." Perhaps so, but thanks to Ellen Jayne Maris Wheeler's organization of these stories, and to Laban's colorful and entertaining writing, the readers of Cherokee Outlet Cowboy can still ride that range and see that old cow trail for themselves.

1st edition very good softcover edition. 370p. includes index. No spine creases. Laban Samuel Records (1856-1940) was a freighter on the Sante Fe Trail, a cowpuncher in Dodge City, a cook in Pawhuska, a line rider for the T5 and Spade Ranches. This is his exciting account of everyday life. A4.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st printing. Cloth. 370pp. Illus. Chronology. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Maps. Inscribed by editor Wheeler (grand-daughter of Records) to B___ & M___. Artist Jack Wells dis a great dust jacket painting & he has also provided an original pen & ink drawing on the half-title of a cowboy playing a guitar. This is an excellent account of cowboy life on the old Cherokee Strip. Highly recommended by your bookseller. Fine in fine dj.

First edition. First edition. 8vo. Cloth, titles stamped in brown on the spine, xx, 370 pp., preface, acknowledgments, chronology, numerous illustrations from photographs, portraits, 5 maps, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index. An interesting narrative by a man who spent many years as a cowboy in Kansas and Oklahoma. Records was a freighter on the Santa Fe Trail, a cowpuncher in the Dodge City stockyards, he escaped the Dull Knife raid in 1878, and he staked a claim in the Cheyenne-Arapaho Run. The book recounts his experiences on cattle drives, in the bunkhouses, with other cowboys, and with the Indians. 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. He knew the participants in the Medicine Lodge bank robbery, the Talbot raid at Caldwell and the Potts-Franklin shootout. As new, unread copy in dust jacket.