By Charley Hester
A sixteen-year-old runaway from Illinois, Charley Hester (1853–1940) lit out from domestic in 1869, certain to make a existence for himself at the nice American frontier. within the iciness of his lifestyles seven a long time later, he dictated an account of his reports within the Wild West of his early life. Charley Hester’s memoir recounts the trips that took him to Missouri, Texas, Indian Territory, Kansas, and Nebraska and taken him face-to-face with badman John Wesley Hardin in addition to Joel Collins sooner than Collins shaped his band of stagecoach and teach robbers. The younger cow waddy additionally tells of assembly Wild invoice Hickok, staring at document Holliday’s deft card play, and witnessing the waylaying of a drunken buffalo hunter through Wyatt Earp.In his personal colourful language, Hester relates tales starting from excessive jinks at the path to a heart-stopping shock stumble upon with Indians, in addition to conflicts with nature within the kind of blizzards, cyclones, quicksand, swollen rivers, undesirable water, prairie fires, and electric storms. So enticing that they figured in Warner Brothers’ learn for the vintage motion picture circumvent urban, Hester’s adventures are the stuff of actual Americana: background rendered in bolder strokes and brighter shades than the main outlandish fiction, as outrageous and outrageously wonderful because it is true.After existence as a cowpoke at the Chisholm and Western Trails, Hester ultimately settled in Phillips County, Kansas, after which in Dundy County, Nebraska, the place he helped his brother construct a ranching empire.
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I told him to take off his boots. 0pt ——— Normal PgEnds: [26], (26 Over the Chisholm Trail, 1871 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 27 located a spot in the yard where he stretched out on the ground with his head cradled on his saddle and his boots at the side. The old hoss blanket was pulled over his ears to keep away the skeeters, but the little devils snooked through the worn spots and got in their dirty work. However, he was soon asleep and snorting vehemently.
While yet some twenty miles distant he told four of us to accompany him in search of good pasture in which to lay over. The balance of the pokes had to swallow their disappointment while they trailed behind. The spring of 1871 found me at Abilene. Once there we were met by an agent from the McCoy stockyards whose business it was to assign grazing grounds to incoming strings. 1 The herd moved up and with old man Ware’s longhorns safe behind feedyard gates we were left free to proceed with the celebration and, believe me, the boys sure did.
Mr. Golden said to Tom Huston: “I am worried about Hester. ” Tom then became concerned and before long the bunch pulled out for the creek. 0pt ——— Normal PgEnds [9], (9) 10 True Life Memoir of a Bush-Popping Cow Waddy 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 to camp two hours later. They had found no evidence of me and they were all discussing my fate as they shivered in the dark. ” Shortly after, my partner came to the wagon and crawled into bed and when he found me there you could have heard his yell to Kingdom Come.