Warpath and Cattle Trail is a middle-aged man's recollection of a year spent with his older brother at Red Fork Ranch, between the Reno and Chisholm trails in Indian Territory. Hubert E. Collins was eleven at the time, and the experience impressed him mightily. Indeed, he never forgot those wild days; and later, as a New Yorker, when he began his memoir, he contacted survivors as well as independent scholars to confirm the accuracy of his recollections. Collins counted among his friends the Cheyenne chief Little Robe. He ...
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Warpath and Cattle Trail is a middle-aged man's recollection of a year spent with his older brother at Red Fork Ranch, between the Reno and Chisholm trails in Indian Territory. Hubert E. Collins was eleven at the time, and the experience impressed him mightily. Indeed, he never forgot those wild days; and later, as a New Yorker, when he began his memoir, he contacted survivors as well as independent scholars to confirm the accuracy of his recollections. Collins counted among his friends the Cheyenne chief Little Robe. He spent considerable time with the Cheyennes, in their lodges and as witness to their ceremonies, including the Sun Dance. In 1928, Collins made a case for Indians as human beings that wouldn't occur in popular culture for another two decades -- in fact, Collins took Hollywood to task more than once in this memoir, not only with regard to its treatment of Indians bur also in the matter of its portrayal of cowboys and other "frontier" types. Warpath and Cattle Trail provides a superb social history of the heyday of the nineteenth century frontier, replete with cattle drives, dog feasts, fiddle-playing gunmen, discussions of burial practices in coyote country, and stories of men who were shot between the eyes and arose and walked -- well, stumbled -- away. Sure to entertain those with interest in the frontier west.
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Art by Paul Brown. Near Fine. pp. 296. 36426 shelf. Trace of tobacco odor. Unread trade paperback, pictorial dark green covers. Edited, with intro, by William W. Savage, James H. Lazalier. First published by Morrow 1928.
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Very Good. No Jacket. Cloth. 296pp. Illust. Foreword/Hamlin Garland. Presentation copy signed & dated on preliminary blank page by Collins Nov. 26, 1928, to Will Marriott. In the same hand at bottom of the same page is written, "By Father 1928". One of the fine, classic books on early Oklahoma cattle ranching, at the Red Fork Ranch near Dover. Much on Indians. Some outlaw material. One doesn't hear much about this book, but it should be considered a high spot in the ranching history of Oklahoma. The author & his brother lived in the country during its formative days & spent four years researching their memories, consulting with the Okla Hist Soc & historian J. B. Thoburn. Sarah Darlington Covington, daughter of Cheyenne & Arapahoe Indian Agent, Brinton Darlington, was related to Collins. Collins' account of enduring a fierce prairie storm while tending a cattle herd is spectacular. Vg copy with a bit of dark spotting on the front cover. Graff 808, 6-guns 471, Herd 506, Dobie p99, Howes C592, 44 & 44 #3, Rader 872.
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