In the old west and even in today's time frame you will still find some people that are partners. Some of the partnerships last a short while with others from the time they are first made until the after life. The characters in this novel are factious names but the two men are buried side by side with the remarks still readable on the tombstone. The store about this long life friendship was a well known story by one of the men that knew the partners of this store.No Man's Land was 37miles by 168 miles and a hard, unforgiving land, domain of the terrible Comanche time out of mind.
During my younger years I was fortune to meet some of the old time law men from the late 1890's. One of them happened to live not far up the way from me and was an acquaintance of my step-father.
By the end of the Civil War jobs were a thing of luxury if you had one which paid money. The men returning from the war found their lives disrupted, families starving or dead. Then someone decided to drive cattle north to Kansas City or Sedalia Missouri. There was where the markets were for a country which had a need for beef. This is the story of one man who took an old Osage Indian for his word of "All ways help others and they will help you."Teaming up, with a man he found walking and looking for a job, they put together a herd of longhorns and headed north to market. Over the next years they had formed the WH ranch and in doing so had ended up with nineteen orphans from around the area. At times he did not know if he was in the cattle business or raising children. However along the way everyone on the ranch became a big family and the ranch grew through hardships and good times along the way.
Run From A HangingJ.P. Daily was waiting to be hung for several citizens had been killed during the robberies that him and his gang had committed in New Mexico. While waiting, on a circuit judge to arrive, he came across an opportunity to escape. On the run, he holed up in a place to keep from freezing to death, and another opportunity came his way. He had a chance to change his life around and become a law abiding citizen himself.The man, whose life he tried to save, happened to be a Deputy U.S. Marshal. The Marshal had almost the same name as Daily and looked almost identical in face, height, and build. No long after that Daily was almost killed because he rode the dead Marshals horse.
Joe Helms received a grant while at the University of Maryland. He was on a quest to find lost treasures and artifacts of the Spanish explorers who came up from Mexico to travel through what is Now Texas, Oklahoma, and into Colorado. In the 1890's Joe Helms set out on his quest and found more than he bargained for. The University sent Joe a letter telling him that he no longer held a grant or was employed by them. It was not long afterward that Joe made the biggest discovery of his life and became a rich man. Even though he had every thing that he had ever wanted he was still haunted by not finding out more about the old Spanish Settlement at Devils Canyon.
Lee Garrett After the War Between the States was over Lee went home. Finding the man, he called Pa, killed by two men over horses. His Ma died shortly after Lee arriving home. Going to the sheriff and he was told no one would go after the two men, he decided to get them himself. Lee turned into a bounty hunter and went after the two men. He found the men, after two different gun fights, and turned the bodies over to the law. After his wife and children were killed in a fire set by the local town toughs, Lee settled the score for people doing him wrong and having a gunfight with the town toughs. Being severely wounded and his recover at some friends of the local blacksmith. Getting into a grange war over homesteads, Lee Garrett found the woman of his dreams and took her and her family to his own homestead in north Texas. With the thoughts of going after some, more of the outlaws, with rewards on there head.
Black Thorn was a self schooled man in the facts of life. He masterminded the largest train robbery of the early 1900âs. His father had married a woman, supposed to be a Creek Indian, who was the daughter of a Freedman slave of the Creek Nation. His father had run Thorn and his sister off from home because he didnât want anything to do with having half Black children. Thorns adventures and holdups that he was involved in up to the 1910. He found what he thought was true love, bought a homestead, and built the nicest house in fifty miles.
Action packed western of the 1890's where the old adage was one Ranger could handle any job. When any law enforcement person pin their badge on they are putting their life on the line for you and me. These are individuals that want to help the people of our great nation and help to keep the laws of our land. They bring justice for everyone and even though it may seem that they aren't doing their jobs, at times, they are the only thing standing between the criminals of this world and you and me. Tanner Oaks (Ta Noaks) was a full blood Comanche Indian. His band of Comanche tribes men were the first on the Fort Sill reservation. Tanner Oaks received a white mans education at Fort Sill Indian Territory Of Oklahoma and was sent to a college in Tennessee for his education of higher learning. When he returned to the reservation, finding his people starving to death from bad food or no food furnished by the agency, he took his immediate family that was still alive and headed west.
Don Ulma had heard of the Bell ranch but who hadn’t in this part of the country. By a fluke in being in the wrong place at the wrong time Don had the chance of working on the ranch. Then Don and Cup Madden along with Noaks Oaks made a trip to Montana to purchase Appaloosa horses for the ranch. On the way back the horse herd was stolen and Cup died while Don was saved from being killed because he carried books to read. In recovering the horse herd Don rescued two women who was being evicted from their property by gun man shooting at the house. Notlong after that Don married one of the women and bought the herd of the Flying U from a dieing rancher. Don moved the cattle back to his land holdings in No Mans Land or some folks called it the Cimarron Strip which was a haven for outlaws and rustlers. What it took to hold the Flying U was guns and guts along with savvy on how to make things work for the ranch.
An old time type western, about the old adage of, âone Ranger for one job, was the best way.â After delivering a prisoner for the Texas Rangers, Sam Mountain took a leave of absents to visit his sister-in-law and nephew. Sam didnât bother to tell anyone he was a Texas Ranger. From the time, he arrived until he finished taking care of business he was in constant danger. The Indians and most of the neighbors were afraid to go near Saddle Mountain even in the day light. The rustlers were wiping out the Circle M from stealing the cattle and horses to burning the ranch builds. Sam found the secret of Saddle Mountain. Also his true love if she would have him.
When most people hear the word Oklahoma, they think about the Oklahoma Land Run, cowboys and Indians, and the oil boom, however, they do not realize that there are many treasures that were lost throughout history in the state of Oklahoma.Things told and remembered of outlaw gold but none has ever been reported are supposedly recovered. Even though there has been hundreds of moneys recovered that could have been outlaw gold that has been reported. The following items have never been recovered or reported.Some of the lost treasures have no exact location. The owners just knew that while traveling through the Oklahoma territory their treasures disappeared, mainly because they forgot where they hide the money. One such incident is the story of an Atoka cattleman. All of his gold was lost in Oklahoma most likely close to Atoka. Whether he buried his gold or in fact lost the gold, no one knows for sure.
Ghost Riders'Returning from a war that no one wanted, he tried to get back into the civilization of people. He became a U.S. Marshal protecting people in the witness protection area. Living in the wilderness of the four corners area of the United States, he found the treasure of the old outlaws of yester year. Gangsters came into his wilderness after him and several of the witness against them. An old friend from Vet Nam, his Kit Carson scout, came to the rescue and helped him to stop the gangsters.
Harm had been working for the railroad from the time he was fifteen until his job, terminated by the railroad cutting back on workers, at the ripe age of twenty. Harm and a friend, he worked with on the railroad, decide to move west in Indian Territory of Oklahoma and take up homesteading. A simple move for him and his friend's wagon ended up with a wagon train of folks moving with them. A man he helped in a time the man was hurt. It turned out he was an Ex Texas Ranger. Also the Ex Ranger had two friends that lived near him decided to go with Harm to the west. The rescue of two women, which were took by outlaws and the old Texas Rangers rescued.Harm made friends with a Comanche Indian, on the trail west, who has taken his family from the reservation at Fort Sill. Harm latter married one of the women from the stage holdup. Along the way Harm made friends with other Rangers and when Harms wife died, during a bank robbery, he took the trail to get vengeance. Some of his Ranger friends caught up with Harm and TA Noaks (Tanner Oaks), swore the two men in as Rangers to up hold the law. Latter Harmon Bell and Tanner Oaks (Ta Noaks a full blood Comanche Indian) sworn in to carry both the Texas Ranger Badge and the Deputy U.S. Marshals badge.Harm and Ta Noaks followed the Wilson gang to the last man. One of the men of the clan asked Harm and Tanner to take the honor of being a member of the White Bear Clan by two of the oldest members of the clan, Lem Dew and John O'Leary.Harm married an Irish girl and became one of the largest land holders in Texas in the late 1800's at the time. He raised horses and let the Comanche Indians, which were hold outs because they slipped off the reservations, live in peace on his land. Indians were starving, on the reservation, from either bad food or no food.
Harm had been working for the railroad from the time he was fifteen until he was laid off at the ripe age of twenty. Harm and a friend he worked with on the railroad decide to move west into Indian Territory of Oklahoma and take up homesteading. A simple move for him and his friendas wagon ended up with a wagon train of folks moving with them. A man he helped in a time the man was hurt turned out to be an ex-Texas Ranger. Also, the ex-Ranger had two friends who lived near him who also decided to go with Harm to the west. They have a lot of adventures along the way, including the rescue of two women who had been taken by outlaws. Harm also made friends with a Comanche Indian on the trail west who had taken his family from the reservation at Fort Sill.
Dismilis Canyon is a sandstone gorge in Franklin County, Alabama. Dismilis Canyon is one of only a few places where insects called dismalites can be found. They cover the canyon the canyon is home to two waterfalls, Secret Falls and Rainbow Falls, and six natural bridges. The canyon, located 10 miles west of the Sipsey Wilderness, was first inhabited by Native Americans over 10,000 years ago. When Europeans arrived, they gave the canyon its name. Some believe it was named for the Dismal Canyon is now known as Alabama's last secret hiding place." Chickasaw Indians were held captive in the canyon for two weeks before embarking on a forced journey along the Trail of Tears. Several outlaws have allegedly hidden in the canyon, including Jesse James, Rube Burrows Gang and Aaron Burr, one of the Vice Presidents of the United States. There are six natural bridges of rock and water flows at times under the rocks. Of course there's this little oddity known as the Dismilites.
After only receiving a small sum of the family inheritance, which in 1850 was a lot of money, the man went west to make his fortune. This is the tale of John OaLearyas adventures while he was making his fortune as a trader of weapons. Helping a friend out, he became a U.S. Marshal. Through the years, his adventures included tracking, arresting or having to kill outlaws. Another was marrying a young girl whose brother-in-law was an outlaw, and her short-lived life in their marriage of one week. John swore to chase the men responsible for her murder. After almost dying and the brutal way his wife died, John OaLeary promised himself to ride to Hell and back to help bring the killers to justice. He tried to turn in his badge, but the judge he worked for told him to bring the outlaws to justice his own way.
On the western frontier, most of the doctors had very little medical training. Some of the men that did the doctoring were dentists, barbers and veterinarians. They did their best with what knowledge they possessed. In todayas world, the emergency medical technicians, most commonly called EMTs, have more training than the doctors of the 1800s or even over into the early 1900s. The doctors of the late 1800s knew how to do very simple surgery, dig for bullets, sew up cuts and to maybe set broken bones, and treat very little of the diseases that confronted them. Their medical knowledge of medicine to give to people was very limited, to say the least, but the doctors were valued in any community. The stories told in this novel were told to me by Doctor Mullins. In 1961, Doc was ninety years old and had quit practicing medicine at the time. In his early years, he had treated people in the late 1800s and for his pay had received barter goods more times than money. The doctors of old at times didnat make enough money to buy medicine to replace what they used and had to resort to trading what they received as payment for money or other means.
Longmire was a New York City lawyer that defended the criminal element of the city, He also was currier for large amounts of money that one of his clients was a syndicate boss. He would take the money to the Midwest banks and put it in safety deposit boxes. When the FBI go hot and heavy on his heels he devised a plan to have the money shipped to numbered accounts of the Cayman Islands. Before he could do that he was captured and torchers and left for dead. When he was about to die he heard a voice and followed the directions of the voice he found water in the desert. He finally was able to see and it was a ghost he was taking to. And the spirt of Jedadia and the horse Thunder the spirt horse they led him back across the desert. Recovering he made it to civilization with the help of the ghost and he transferred large amounts of cash to the numbered accounts with the help of a uncommon friend. The thugs and the FBI tried to recapture him and he fled the U.S. and set up life in Belize. Along the way he had turmoil of dodging the thugs and the FBI. The turmoil and his escape through the jungle and back roads of Baleze. He found several people that became friends and he lived to tell the story.
Una dintre forțele cele mai dinamice din divertismentul contemporan, recunoscută la nivel global, își povestește viața într-o carte deopotrivă curajoasă și motivantă, care îi urmărește parcursul de învățare până în punctul alinierii perfecte a succesului exterior, fericirii interioare și conexiunii umane. Will spune povestea necenzurată a uneia dintre cele mai uimitoare evoluții în lumea muzicii și filmului.
A collection of Rogers' writings and observations includes selections from his weekly articles and previously unpublished excerpts from his notes and correspondence
This third volume of The Papers of Will Rogers documents the evolution of Rogers's vaudeville career as well as the newlywed life of Will and Betty Blake Rogers and the birth of their children. During these years, the Rogerses moved to New York City, and after many years of performing with Buck McKee and horse Teddy, Rogers began a solo act in vaudeville as a talking, roping cowboy. He appeared on the same playbill with such performers as Fred Stone, Eddie Cantor, and Houdini, and his stage career expanded to include an appearance in the Broadway musical comedy "The Wall Street Girl." Volume Three ends with Rogers's successful transition from vaudeville to Broadway, on the brink of his breakthrough as a star of the Ziegfeld Follies.
Horses, friends, ragtime music, and steer roping-those were the interests of the youthful Will Rogers as he came of age in the Indian Territory and traveled to the Southern Hemisphere in this first of six definitive volumes of The Papers of Will Rogers. By separating fact from legend and unveiling new knowledge via extensive archival research, this documentary history represents a unique contribution to Rogers scholarship and to studies of the Cherokee Nation West. Using many previously unpublished letters and photographs-together with introductions, notes, and biographies of his friends and relatives-volume one illuminates Rogers’s complex relationship with his father, his Cherokee heritage, his early education, first encounters with his future wife, Betty Blake, his voyage to Argentina, and his fledging years in Wild West shows and circuses in South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. Coorespondence, performance reviews, and rare newspaper documents spotlight the singular experiences that shaped the young Rogers within the context of his family, his ethnic background, and historical events. No other book describes so provocatively and authentically the genesis of America’s most beloved and influential humorist.
These journals also provide insight into Dodge's character, with reports of his official duties as a military man and of several landmark events in his family life. Extensive commentaries and notes by Wayne R. Kime provide further detail, including a history of Cantonment North Fork Canadian River, a six-company post Dodge established and commanded in the region."--BOOK JACKET.
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