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Title
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Cowboys
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Object Type
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Vertical File
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Title
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Hit the Trail
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Description
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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.
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Date
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2006-04-01
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Leaders in Our Town
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1952
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Cowboy's Diary Reflects Hardship of Life on Plains
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1970-08-20
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Emigrant Life in Kansas
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1886-07-03
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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C. A. Reynolds: Services for Hall of Fame Founder Are Saturday
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Description
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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.
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Date
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1958-12-12
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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Negro Cowpoke Bulldogged 'Em in Style
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1968-09-11
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Object Type
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Newspaper Article
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Title
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LeRoy ''Scotty'' Scott
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Description
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Portrait view identified as LeRoy Scott known as Scotty. Posed in cowboy garb holding a lariat.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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LeRoy ''Scotty'' Scott
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Description
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Portrait view identified as LeRoy Scotty Scott. Dressed in cowboy garb and holding a lariat.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Cisco Kid
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Description
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Full length body pose identified as the Cisco Kid.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Buffalo Vernon
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Description
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Snapshot, full body view identified as Buffalo Vernon (Tom Averill) at 76. Location unknown. Photograph found in Montgomery corresondence, P3, under Averill, Tom.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Milt Hinkle and Others
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Description
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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.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Joe Mix and Horse
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Description
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Exterior view identified as Joe Mix and his horse. Location not given.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Pete Peterson
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Description
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Snapshot identified as Pete Peterson shown cooking pancakes outdoors at Tonopah, Nevada.
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Date
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1961
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Pete Peterson
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1961
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Tim McCoy
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Description
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Exterior snapshot identified as Col. Tim McCoy mounted on his horse.
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Date
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1954
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Milt Hinkle and Wife Alice
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Description
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Postcard identified by Montgomery as Alice Hinkle and Milt Hinkle on Capitol steps, Boston, 1932.
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Date
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1932
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Title
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Tex Smith and Lorena Trickey Peterson
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Description
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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."
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Date
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1960
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Object Type
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Photograph
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