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Title: Men of Affairs in Greater Kansas City, 1912: A Newspaper Reference Work
Description: Photo and bio of John Seitz, "captalist, engaged in the real estate, securities and loans business with offices in the Sheidley building." Born in Ohio in 1856 and coming to Kansas City in 1876 as a broker and former cowboy.
Date: 1912
Object Type: Book

Title: Hit the Trail
Description: Special illustrated advertising section describing historical and contemporary destinations along the Chisholm Trail, from Brownsville, Texas to Abilene, Kansas. Includes a map, resource guide with contact information for towns along the trail, and photograph of Jesse Chisholm, after whom the trail was named.
Date: 2006-04-01
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: Leaders in Our Town
Description: Photo and bio of Fred Olander (dressed as a cowboy), partner of the National Livestock Company and former president of "the National Live Stock Exchange" in 1926. Born in Kansas City, Kansas in 1894 and serving during World War I in Europe before becoming a livestock dealer and president of the Kansas City Live Stock Exchange in 1924.
Date: 1952
Object Type: Book

Title: Cowboy's Diary Reflects Hardship of Life on Plains
Description: Photo and biographical article about Sam Hastings, "a Kansas cowboy, a horse-trading mule-skinning frontiersman in the best shoot-em-up tradition," growing up near Fort Leavenworth and becoming a Confederate soldier and then railroad worker, moving to Weston, Missouri, in 1865 and traveling the West as a cowboy and Indian fighter with Buffalo Bill in the early 1870s, observing many buffalo and grasshoppers in the Great Plains, and becoming Leavenworth County sheriff in the late 1870s.
Date: 1970-08-20
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Emigrant Life in Kansas
Description: Book review of "Emigrant Life in Kansas" by Percy Ebbutt about the English book author's emigration to Morris County, Kansas (centering on Junction City, Kansas) in 1871 and experiences of pioneer life (as a cowboy) there.
Date: 1886-07-03
Object Type: Magazine Article

Title: C. A. Reynolds: Services for Hall of Fame Founder Are Saturday
Description: Funeral notice for Chester Reynolds, "former chairman of the board of the H. D. Lee company [blue jeans manufacturers] and founder of the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City," residing "in Kansas City about 30 years" before dying in 1958.
Date: 1958-12-12
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Negro Cowpoke Bulldogged 'Em in Style
Description: Biographical article about Bill Pickett, a black "native Texan" becoming a stunt cowboy in Oklahoma "credited with originating the bulldogging of steers" in 1893, "the same year the Cherokee Strip was opened to settlement." Dying in 1932 after a touring career with "the 101 Ranch Road Show and Wild West Extravaganza."
Date: 1968-09-11
Object Type: Newspaper Article

Title: Buffalo Vernon
Description: Snapshot, full body view identified as Buffalo Vernon (Tom Averill) at 76. Location unknown. Photograph found in Montgomery corresondence, P3, under Averill, Tom.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Milt Hinkle and Others
Description: Outdoor view of three men on horseback at what appears to be a tent show. Men identified left to right as Old Stalfer, great Roman Rider; Bee Ho Gray; Milt Hinkle. Location not given.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Joe Mix and Horse
Description: Exterior view identified as Joe Mix and his horse. Location not given.
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pete Peterson
Description: Snapshot identified as Pete Peterson shown cooking pancakes outdoors at Tonopah, Nevada.
Date: 1961
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pete Peterson
Description: Outdoor snapshot of Pete Peterson. Handwritten in blue ink at the top of the photo, "To: Bob Montgomery, from Pete 'The Prospector' Peterson." Handwritten in blue ink on the back, "Home on the range without any range. Subject Pete Peterson. Photo by Mickey (Lorena Trickey) Peterson, Jan. 1, 1961, Tonopah, Nevada."
Date: 1961
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tim McCoy
Description: Exterior snapshot identified as Col. Tim McCoy mounted on his horse.
Date: 1954
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Milt Hinkle and Wife Alice
Description: Postcard identified by Montgomery as Alice Hinkle and Milt Hinkle on Capitol steps, Boston, 1932.
Date: 1932
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Tex Smith and Lorena Trickey Peterson
Description: Snapshot of Lorena Trickey Peterson and Tex Smith in unknown location. Inscribed in blue ink at the top of the photo, "To Bob Montgomery from Tex Smith & Lorena Trickey Peterson, Nov. 3, 1960."
Date: 1960
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Pop Staples
Description: Postcard which is a view identified as Pop Staples (killed 1952) riding big bay - Hinkle Wild West Rodeo, Indianapolis Fair, 1950.
Date: 1950
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Billy Binder
Description: Exterior view, believed to be Billy Binder on horse. Identified on back of photograph as last horse I broke in 1958. Yours Truly, Billy Binder. Photograph was found in Montgomery correspondence, P3, in Billy Binder correspondence file.
Date: 1958~
Object Type: Photograph

Title: Milt Hinkle
Description: Exterior view, rodeo scene identified by Montgomery as: Milt Hinkle, bulldogging, 1917, Magdelena, N.M., man on horse, Leonard Stroud (then champ trick rider).
Date: 1917
Object Type: Photograph

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