He wrote as he talked. "God pity the
wight for whom this vivid, honest story has no interest," John
Lomax pronounced. It is one of several brief books
of reminiscences brought out in small editions in the "Range
Life Series," under the editorship of J. Frank Dobie, by the
Texas Folklore Society. The two others worth having are _A
Tenderfoot Kid on Gyp Water_, by Carl Peters Benedict (1943)
and _Ed Nichols Rode a Horse_, as told to Ruby Nichols
Cutbirth (1943).
MCCOY, JOSEPH G. _Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the
West and Southwest_, Kansas City, 1874. In 1867, McCoy
established at Abilene, Kansas, terminus of the Chisholm
Trail, the first market upon which Texas drovers could depend.
He went broke and thereupon put his sense, information, and
vinegar into the first of all range histories. It is a
landmark. Of the several reprinted editions, the one preferred
is that edited by Ralph P. Bieber, with an information-packed
introduction and many illuminating notes, Glendale,
California, 1940. This is Volume VIII in the "Southwest
Historical Series," edited by Bieber, and the index to it is
included in the general index to the whole series.
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