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xiv, 269 pages 22 cm Jim Cook, cattleman and raconteur, son of Mart Cook, was born on February 25, 1861, in Washington County, Arkansas. When the Civil War broke out, Mart enlisted in the Confederate Army and served as a captain under Gen. Sterling Price. Afterward he moved to Texas, rounded up cattle, and sought out a market in Kansas. Jim and his brother Al grew up in the saddle. In 1866 the Cooks were perhaps among the first to drive cattle north to Honeywell, Kansas. The boys' mother died later that year, and their father was reportedly killed by Indians in 1867. Jim and Al went to live with an uncle and cousin who were also ranchers. Until 1876 Jim remained at his uncle's ranch; he was then put in charge of a herd of 1,000 steers to be trailed north to Kansas and fattened on the grasslands there. While on the trail, according to his earliest account, some of Cook's fellow cowboys started calling him Jim Lane and Kid Boss. The nicknames stuck with him for several years. In the fall of 1876 Cook and a partner started their own ranch on the South Fork of the Llano River in Kimball County. Cook remained there until 1880, when he sold his interest. Both Jim and Al, who sometimes we

Author

as told to T.M. Pearce

Publisher

Little, Brown, and Company

Published

1936

Language

EN

Subjects

History, Humanities