By LaVerne Hanners, Ed Lord, C. Kelly Collins
The Lords of the Valley is the intertwining of 2 voices, one male and one woman, to inform the tale of lifestyles in and round a tiny, distant ranching group at the Oklahoma/New Mexico border from the Eighteen Nineties throughout the Thirties. l. a. Verne Hanners’s mild, valuable statement is woven throughout the unaltered textual content of Ed Lord’s "Out Sheltered Lives," a curt, no-nonsense account of his lifestyles as a cowpuncher, freighter, and storekeeper in Kenton, Oklahoma. Hanners additionally was once an established resident of Kenton.Lord and hanners either describe a lifestyle that demanded toughness-stoicism, dedication, and humor whilst possible-but their memories make an engaging counterpoint. Following the branding and castration of one thousand younger bulls, Lord insists that the total city got here with buckets to hold the testicles home-"They have been relatively meat hungry." Hanners insists, notwithstanding, that cooking and consuming mountain oysters was once "strickly a masculine endeavor," pursued by means of the boys after the ladies had vacated the kitchen. whilst Lord matter-of-factly describes being left by myself at a tender age to path livestock in Indian Territory, Hanners observes that "sixteen turns out pitifully younger to be up to now clear of domestic, broke and hungry," whereas agreeing that necessity frequently required such issues. whilst Lord says there have been saloons as the males "had to have a spot to drink and struggle in," Hanners recollects the numerous saloons that mysteriously burned to the floor. And while Lord flatly says, "Our first child used to be killed. i'm going to inform approximately it now," Hanners thinks of a couple of different young children buried within the Kenton cemetery.Over Kenton looms the big Black Mesa. Hanners describes it vividly, but Lord writes his complete publication with out declaring, not to mention describing it. however, we examine greatly from him, and his emotions floor, particularly whilst he affectionately mentions his spouse, Zadia.Both Lord and Hanners live on not just Kenton, yet smooth existence. In a postscript written in 1964, Lord, who has retired with Zadia to rest international in California, grumbles that he has to prevent writing and cross wash off the patio. In 1994 Hanners, having lived clear of Kenton considering early maturity, returns there to stay and write.Forty-nine pictures and 5 maps accompany the textual content.
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There were 1000 head and cost from $2 to $4 each. Fred and I, with about a dozen other boys, were there at the stock yards to help with all these calves when father's train came in. He had worked with the weakest of those calves to keep them on their feet and from being trampled on. When they started to unload them, father was calf manure from head to foot. He turned the calves all over to Fred and I and our many helpers and went down to the depot and asked the de- Page 8 Dust storm over unknown town in Oklahoma Panhandle, April 14, 1935.
I slept with him in Pierces' livery stable bunk house. They had a cook stove in there too so I was his cook. He got drunk every day. He said he had to be drunk before he could do any good trading. Kinda "whetted up his thinkin", he said. This hangin' of Black Jack Ketchum was sometime in April 1901, I think. I wanted to see the hangin', too. They had a high board fence around the gallows. I walked all around the fence but couldn't find a place to see in. I came to a Mexican boy lookin' through a knot hole about an inch and a half across, square in front of Black Jack's noose.
He said he would trade one for a dollar and a plug of tobacco. He reached back and took the blanket off of the old woman in the back and she was bare except for an undergarment. I gave him the dollar and plug and just threw the blanket over the bed. Father made a mad rush for that blanket and threw it clear away from the bed. I thought he was crazy. There could be nothing wrong with the blanket. He said that all of the Indians were covered with gray backs, (lice) and he certainly didn't want any in the bed.