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 ...
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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 become 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 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 every day 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 know 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.
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Add this copy of Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. to cart. $17.00, like new condition, Sold by J. Hood, Booksellers, Inc. rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Baldwin City, KS, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by University of Oklahoma Press.
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Add this copy of Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. to cart. $34.50, very good condition, Sold by K. L. Givens Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bella Vista, AR, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by Univ of Oklahoma Pr.
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VG+ in Near Fine jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾-12" tall. Inscribed by Editor 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.
Add this copy of Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. to cart. $48.34, very good condition, Sold by Gene W. Baade Books on West rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Renton, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by OU.
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Near Fine in Good jacket. 1st printing. Cloth. 370pp. Illust. Maps. Editor Wheeler's presentation inscription, dated, on title page. The editor is Records' granddaughter. A terrific book on ranching in the early Cherokee Strip-deserves a permanent place alongside any other book on the subject & region. Near fine in like dj. Someone punched a couple of dimples the size of a pencil point through the front panel of the dj & indented the cloth. Couple of superficial scratches on back panel of dj.
Add this copy of Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. to cart. $57.00, very good condition, Sold by David H. Gerber Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austin, TX, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by University of Oklahoma Press.
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B&w illustrations. Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Inscribed and signed xx, 370pp----Inscribed and signed by the editor on title page; signed by Jack J. Wells, along with pen & ink drawing of a horse's head, on half-title----
Add this copy of Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. to cart. $61.61, very good condition, Sold by Gene W. Baade Books on West rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Renton, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by OU.
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Very Good in Near Fine jacket. 2nd printing. Cloth. 370pp. Illus. Maps. Editor Wheeler's presentation inscription to named person, dated in 1996, on title page. Nice pen & ink sketch of cowboy on horse by the book jacket illustrator, Jack J. Wells, on half-title A terrific book on ranching in the early Cherokee Strip-deserves a permanent place alongside any other book on the subject & region. Near fine in near fine dj (superficial scratch indentations on back panel).
Add this copy of Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. to cart. $72.19, like new condition, Sold by Gene W. Baade Books on West rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Renton, WA, UNITED STATES, published 1995 by OU.
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Fine in Fine jacket. 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.
