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Andy Adams A Question of Possession
Along in the 80’s there occurred a question of possession in regard to a brand of horses, numbering nearly two…
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Andy Adams Around the Spade Wagon
It was an early spring. The round-up was set for the 10th of June. The grass was well forward, while…
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Andy Adams At Comanche Ford
“There’s our ford,” said Juan,–our half-blood trailer,–pointing to the slightest sag in a low range of hills distant twenty miles.…
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Andy Adams A Winter Round-Up
A Winter Round-Up is a story from the days before barbed wire, fences, and easy access to transportation for moving cattle,…
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Andy Adams Bad Medicine
“Bad Medicine” was published in Adams’ collection, Cattle Brands: A Collection of Winter Camp-fire Stories (1906). The evening before the Cherokee Strip was…
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Andy Adams Drifting North
It was a wet, bad year on the Old Western Trail. From Red River north and all along was herd…
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Andy Adams Rangering
No State in the Union was ever called upon to meet and deal with the criminal element as was Texas.…
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Andy Adams Seigerman’s Per Cent
Towards the wind-up of the Cherokee Strip Cattle Association it became hard to ride a chuck-line in winter. Some of…
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Andy Adams The Story of a Poker Steer
He was born in a chaparral thicket, south of the Nueces River in Texas. It was a warm night in…
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Dinner with Racine
The celebrated French poet, Racine, having one day returned from Versailles, where he had been on a visit, was waited…
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