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Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. Records | 
 enlarge | Author: Laban Samuel Records
Creator: Ellen Jayne Maris Wheeler
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 392
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 1.1
ISBN: 0806128720
Dewey Decimal Number: 920
EAN: 9780806128726
ASIN: 0806128720
Publication Date: September 1997
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Life of a cowboy December 23, 2005
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Very late in his life Laban Records decided to sit down and put to paper his recollections of his days as a Kansas cowboy some fifty years earlier. When he was done he had compiled about a thousand handwritten notebook pages of material that was then passed down through his family. Laban's son saw that parts of it were published in the "Chronicles of Oklahoma," but it wasn't until his granddaughter, Ellen Wheeler, presented the entire original manuscript to the Oklahoma Historical Society that the book (this book) was published; Ms. Wheeler also did the editing.
The memoir begins with the 14-year-old Records moving to Kansas with his family from Indiana; his father was a Methodist minister. He got a job bullwhacking and driving freight in SE Kansas, and from there went on to work as a cowboy on a number of ranches. The book recounts his experiences on cattle drives, in the bunkhouses, with other cowboys, and of course with the Indians (he survived a raid by Dull Knife). There is nothing exceptional about most of this, but it gives a good feel for the routine life of a cowboy. And Wheeler's annotations are very thorough and helpful. One complaint: Records refers to the ranches in the book by their brands, so a table of brands would have been useful. In 1892 he staked a claim in the Indian territory of Oklahoma and settled there with his wife, where they lived and ranched for the next 48 years. As cowboy reminiscences go, this book is quite good of its kind.
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