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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Bulletin
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Category : Geology
Languages : en
Pages : 392
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Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls
Author: Jerry Thompson
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
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Growing up, Jerry Thompson knew only that his grandfather was a gritty, “mixed-blood” Cherokee cowboy named Joe Lynch Davis. That was all anyone cared to say about the man. But after Thompson’s mother died, the award-winning historian discovered a shoebox full of letters that held the key to a long-lost family history of passion, violence, and despair. Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls, the result of Thompson’s sleuthing into his family’s past, uncovers the lawless life and times of a man at the center of systematic cattle rustling, feuding, gun battles, a bloody range war, bank robberies, and train heists in early 1900s Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Through painstaking detective work into archival sources, newspaper accounts, and court proceedings, and via numerous interviews, Thompson pieces together not only the story of his grandfather—and a long-forgotten gang of outlaws to rival the infamous Younger brothers—but also the dark path of a Cherokee diaspora from Georgia to Indian Territory. Davis, born in 1891, grew up on a family ranch on the Canadian River, outside the small community of Porum in the Cherokee Nation. The range was being fenced, and for the Davis family and others, cattle rustling was part of a way of life—a habit that ultimately spilled over into violence and murder. The story “goes way back to the wild & wooly cattle days of the west,” an aunt wrote to Thompson’s mother, “when there was cattle rustling, bank robberies & feuding.” One of these feuds—that Joe Davis was “raised right into”—was the decade-long Porum Range War, which culminated in the murder of Davis’s uncle in 1907. In fleshing out the details of the range war and his grandfather’s life, Thompson brings to light the brutality and far-reaching consequences of an obscure chapter in the history of the American West.
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806166045
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Growing up, Jerry Thompson knew only that his grandfather was a gritty, “mixed-blood” Cherokee cowboy named Joe Lynch Davis. That was all anyone cared to say about the man. But after Thompson’s mother died, the award-winning historian discovered a shoebox full of letters that held the key to a long-lost family history of passion, violence, and despair. Wrecked Lives and Lost Souls, the result of Thompson’s sleuthing into his family’s past, uncovers the lawless life and times of a man at the center of systematic cattle rustling, feuding, gun battles, a bloody range war, bank robberies, and train heists in early 1900s Indian Territory and Oklahoma. Through painstaking detective work into archival sources, newspaper accounts, and court proceedings, and via numerous interviews, Thompson pieces together not only the story of his grandfather—and a long-forgotten gang of outlaws to rival the infamous Younger brothers—but also the dark path of a Cherokee diaspora from Georgia to Indian Territory. Davis, born in 1891, grew up on a family ranch on the Canadian River, outside the small community of Porum in the Cherokee Nation. The range was being fenced, and for the Davis family and others, cattle rustling was part of a way of life—a habit that ultimately spilled over into violence and murder. The story “goes way back to the wild & wooly cattle days of the west,” an aunt wrote to Thompson’s mother, “when there was cattle rustling, bank robberies & feuding.” One of these feuds—that Joe Davis was “raised right into”—was the decade-long Porum Range War, which culminated in the murder of Davis’s uncle in 1907. In fleshing out the details of the range war and his grandfather’s life, Thompson brings to light the brutality and far-reaching consequences of an obscure chapter in the history of the American West.
A Gazetteer of Texas
Author: Henry Gannett
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Annual Report
Author: Oklahoma. Dept. of Mines
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Category : Mines and mineral resources
Languages : en
Pages : 700
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Biennial Report
Author: Texas. Secretary of State
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1430
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General Revenue Sharing
Author: United States. Office of Revenue Sharing
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Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Kentucky Place Names
Author: Robert M. Rennick
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813144019
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 487
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" From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinating mosaic of information on families, events, politics, and local lore in the state. It will interest all Kentuckians as well as the growing number of scholars of American place names.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813144019
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
" From the wealth of place names in Kentucky, Rennick has selected those of some 2,000 communities and post offices. These places are usually the largest, the best known, or the most important as well as those with unusual or inherently interesting names. Including perhaps one-fourth of all such places known in the state, the names were chosen as a representative sample among Kentucky's counties and sections. Kentucky Place Names offers a fascinating mosaic of information on families, events, politics, and local lore in the state. It will interest all Kentuckians as well as the growing number of scholars of American place names.
16th Census of the United States, 1940
Author: United States. Bureau of the Census
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Travellers' Official Railway Guide
Author: William Frederick Allen
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1744
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Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 1744
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Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas
Author: Texas. Secretary of State
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 740
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