Cherokee Outlet Cowboy; Recollections of Laban S. Records by Laban Samuel Records/Ellen Jayne Maris Wheeler, Editor - 1995

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995 University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 1995. Softcover/Trade Wraps. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for notations on half-title page about the owner's relation in the book (Wiley Cowan). Book Condition: VG+: smudging to textblock fore edge; bumped areas on wraps. No DJ. Pictorial Wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split. 370 pp tall 8vo. The author was a freighter on the Santa Fe Trail, a cowpuncher in the Dodge City stockyards, a cook for the Osage Agency at Pawhuska, and a line rider for the T-5 and Spade ranches in the Cherokee Outlet. His account of everyday cowboy life in the Outlet is coupled with exciting stories of frontier life, such as his narrow escape from a raid by Dull Knife and his Cheyenne warriors. A clean presentable copy.