The
book is dated from Kerrville, Texas.
PONTING, TOM CANDY. _The Life of Tom Candy Ponting_, Decatur,
Illinois [1907], reprinted, with Notes and Introduction by
Herbert O. Brayer, by Branding Iron Press,
Evanston, Illinois, 1952. An account of buying cattle in Texas
in 1853, driving them to Illinois, and later shipping some to
New York. Accounts of trail driving before about 1870 have
been few and obscurely printed. The stark diary kept by George
C. Duffield of a drive from San Saba County, Texas, to
southern Iowa in 1866 is as realistic--often agonizing--as
anything extant on this much romanticized subject. It is
published in _Annals of Iowa_, Des Moines, IV (April, 1924),
243-62.
POTTER, JACK. Born in 1864, son of the noted fighting parson,"
Andrew Jackson Potter, Jack became a far-known trail boss and
ranch manager. His first published piece, "Coming Down the
Trail," appeared in _The Trail Drivers of Texas_, compiled by
J. Marvin Hunter, and is about the livest thing in that
monumental collection. Jack Potter wrote for various Western
magazines and newspapers. He was more interested in cow nature
than in gun fights; he had humor and imagination as well as
mastery of facts and a tangy language, though small command
over form.
Pages:
164
165
166
167
168
169
170
171
172
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
180
181
182
183
184
185
186
187
188