The Border and the Buffalo book by John R. Cook~Sharps Rifle~Buffalo Hunting~NEW

Description: THE BORDER AND THE BUFFALO An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains BY JOHN R. COOK Originally published in 1907, this story offers valuable history and insight into the days of yesteryear when buffalo covered the Plains and the buffalo hunter was born. It is of special interest to black powder cartridge rifle shooters and Sharps rifle enthusiasts. **** The slaughter of the great buffalo herds of the West took place between 1874 and 1884. The southern herds in the Texas Panhandle were gone as early as 1878. John R. Cook was one of the hunters taking part in the extermination. The Border and the Buffalo, first published in a small edition at Topeka, Kansas in 1907, is one of the most important first-hand accounts about buffalo hunting that has ever been written. It not only captures events in early Kansas history, but it depicts, in great detail, the life of the hide-hunters on the Western plains during the late 1860s and 1870s. Travel along with Cook and his Sharps rifle as he describes the hunting and marketing of buffalo in vivid detail and engages in the everyday camp activities of securing guns, cooking, defending the camp, and transporting buffalo hides. Along the way, he encounters Indians, bears, cougars, verdigris poisoning, cowboys, cattle fever, and of course, herds of buffalo. The book also highlights specific battles with the Cheyenne and Comanche Indians, the Staked Plains horror, and various scouts with the U.S. Cavalry on the plains of Texas. Excerpt from the book: "They informed us that the great mass of the buffaloes was south of the Red River, and that there would be no profitable buffalo-hunting here until the next May or June. Here I was fortunate to enough to buy off one of these hunters a Sharp's .44-caliber rifle, reloading outfit, belt, and 150 shells. The man had used the gun only a short time, and seventy-five of the shells had never been loaded. I got the gun and his interest in the entire buffalo range for thirty-six dollars, he having met with the misfortune of shooting himself seriously, but not fatally, in the right side with the same gun which proved a 'hoodoo' to me as the hunters afterwards sometimes remarked. It was an elegant fine-sighted gun, with buckhorn sights." CONTENTS: Chapter I Boyhood in Territory of Kansas, 1857 - Day Fort Sumpter Was Fired On - First Confederate Army at Independence, Missouri - Search for Guns - A Glimpse of Quantrill - Guerrillas and the Money Belt - My Uniform - Quantrill at Baxter Springs Chapter II Early Settlements of Southwest Kansas - Texas Cattle Fever Trouble - The Osage Indians and Firewater - Poor Mrs. Bennett - How Terjwillijer's Cattle Stampeded - Why the Curtiss Moved On - The Odens Murder Parker - Parker Was Avenged - Jane Heaton and Her Smith & Wesson Revolver - What Became of the Benders Chapter III A Trip to New Mexico - Prospecting Around the Base of Mount Baldy - My Experience With A Cinnamon Bear - Wail of the Mountain Lion - Tattooed Natives, Bound for the Texas Panhandle - I Lanced A Buffalo - Loaned My Gun and Suffered Chapter IV "Lost" - "Alone At Night in the Wilds" - "I Quicksanded in the Canadian" - The Beaver Played in the Water - Second Day and Night It Snowed - The Wolves Serenade Me - Was Getting Snowblind - Third Night Out, Suffered in Body and Mind - Following Morning, Found Adobe Walls - And the Good Samaritans Were There Chapter V We Move - Acres of Buffalo - Indian Scare - Killed Two Bear - First Wedding in the Panhandle - At Last - Fort Elliot - Meet Romero and Son - The Great Buffalo-slayer - What Gen. Sheridan Said - The Great Slaughter Began Chapter VI Two Hundred and Three Killed at One Time - How We Skinned Buffalo - I Saw a Panther - Cyrus Saw a Bear - I Killed an Eagle - A Great, Moving Mass of Buffalo - I Kill a Cougar - Hickey, the Hide-buyer - Cyrus Meets a Bear - The Wounded Panther - The Weird Night Watch - Left Alone - On Meat Straight, Fourteen Days Chapter VII Hides Bound for the Railroad - I Go Into Partnership - We Start North - Grand Wild Animal Show - The Wichita Mountains - Wrong-wheel Jones - I Killed Eighty-eight Buffalo - I Was Verdigris-Poisoned - Traded Eagle Feathers for Pony - Back South for a Winter's Hunt Chapter VIII Indian Rumors - A Close Midnight Call - A Comanche Shoots At Me - Rankin Moore Kills His Horse - Diabolical Deeds - Killing and Scalping of Sewall - We Dug His Grave With Butcher-knives - The Pocket Canon Fight - Hosea - They Scatter Like Quails - Plains Telegraphy Chapter IX The Warrior's Last Ride - Muffled Feet - Bit Off More Than We Could Chew - The Cunning Warriors Tricked Us - We Carried Water in My Boots - Captain Lee Captures Their Camp - How Lumpkins Was Killed - The Sewall Gun Hoodooed the Comanches - The Blood-curdling Yell, and We Were Afoot - They Sure Waked Us Up - Gathering the Clams Chapter X The Staked Plains Horror - A Forlorn Hope - The Fate of the Benders - Captain Nolan and His Troopers - Quanah Parker - Rees, the Hero of the Hour - Drinking Horse-blood Chapter XI Water At Last - "Yes, Sah" - "Take Him, Sah" - They Had Given Up to Die - Rees Said, "Find Carr" - He Was Lying in the Shade of His Horse - It Was Rees and the Three Men - We Ignited Soap-balls - Twenty Years in Prison - We Are All Here - We Gather Up Some Horses - Last Great Slaughter of the Buffalo - Our Kangaroo Court, Always in Session - Judge ("Wild Bill") Kress on the Bench Chapter XII Sol Rees - Dull Knife Raid, 1878 - His Night Ride from Kirwin to the Prairie Dog - Elected Captain of the Settlers - Single-handed Combat With a Warrior on the Sappa - Meeting Major Mock and U.S. Soldiers - Sworn in as Guide and Scout - On a Hot Trail - The Four Butchered Settlers on the Beaver - Finds Lacerated, Nude Girl - On the Trail - Finds Annie Pangle's Wedding Dress - Overtook Played-out Warrior - Hurry to Ogalalla - Lost the Trail - Goes to New Mexico - Meets Kit Carson's Widow - Down With Mountain Fever - Living At Home in Quiet Chapter XIII Mortimer N. Kress ("Wild Bill") - His Heroic Example at the Battle of Casa Amarilla - His Unselfish Generosity - His Sublime Fortitude in the Hour of Distress - He Stood as a Buffer between Savagery and Civilization - He Is Geography Itself Chapter XVI M. V. Daily Miscellaneous Stories of Buffalo Land Stampede of the Wheel-oxen, Favorite Hunting Grounds, The Unseen Tragedy, Bellfield and the Dried Apples, An Incident of Ben Jackson's Experience Paperback. Unabridged edition. 6x9. 378 pages. 18 black and white photographs. BRAND NEW! PLEASE NOTE: PHOTO IN THIS AUCTION IS A STOCK PHOTO OF THE BOOK. YOUR BOOK IS BRAND NEW FROM THE PUBLISHER, NEVER READ, NEVER SHELVED. We ship all of our books in cardboard packaging/wrapping for protection in transit.

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