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AN AN’TONIO, where stai^ the Alamo, the sacred shrine of liberty tn the Lone Star Btate, Is to have another memorial before which Texans will bow In homage to the historic pasL It Is to be -a monu ment to the trail drivers upon whose mighty labors the prosperity of the^ state is based an^ whose deeds form one of the^ most romantic incidents In American (doneer his tory. The memorial Is to cost $100,000 and Qut- Kon Borglum of Stone mountain faooe Is now at work on It. Citizens of San Antonio have raised $50,000 of that amount and the other $50,000 Is to be raised by contributions from all parts of the state. When It Is completed and dedicated the dream of the Old Trail Drivers’ association, that rapidly dwindling band of men who rode the ranges of the Southwest more than, half a century ago, to commemorate the service of their, comrades who in the sLxtIes and seventies drove nearly 10,000,000 head of beef cattle out of Texas to the railroad towns of Kansas and brought back with them approximately $100,000,000 to save Texas and the cattle Industry will be realized. . Last year the annual reunion of the Old Trail Drivers’ association was a three-day affair with the selection of the site for the Borglum monu ment as one of the main features. The sculptor . himself was there, put on a cowboy costume and ^ rode In the pEirade which was the climax of the reunion. Other Interesting figures In the parade were “Uncle Charley” Goodnight, former owner of the famous Goodnight ranch, whose experi ments In crossing buffalo and Galloway cattle to produce the “catalo” gave him the nickname of “Catalo” Goodnight; “Uncle George” Glenn, a seventy-flve-year-old negro' and one of the i most- beloved members of the association, who led a “riderless horse,” In memory of his “boss” who had perished on the trail, and Mrs. Amanda Burks, the only woman alive known to have made the trip over the old Chisholm trail to Abilene, Kan., who Is said to be the original of Talsle Lockhart, the heroine In Emerson dough’s "North of 30." The president of the association Is George W. Saunders of San Antonio and he has been the v mainspring of the organization and the force behind the movement to erect the memorial In San Antonio. The association Is an offshoot from the Texas Cattle Raisers’ association, which meets every year to discuss ways and means for the improvement of the cattle business.. At one of these meetings (In 1915) Mr. Saunders proposed an auxiliary organization of old-time trail drivem to be composed of men who “went up the trail" In the early days. ""The organization was formed that year and In 1916 the first annual conventloD was held In Houston. Mr. Saiu^ers became presi dent In 1917, and has been jwThead of the asso ciation since that time. At the 1917 reunion Mr. Saunders reported that the association had a membership of 60a Since then sons of the old trail drivers have been made eligible for membership. It also has a ladies’ auxiliary, of which Mrs. R. R. Russell is chairman, and this auxiliary has had a large share in the work of raising money for the San Antonio memorial. But the monument and the annual reunion are not the only memorials which the surviving trail drivers-have erected to the comrades of their youth. There Is one which Is more durable than bronze or stone and which, even more strikingly than the sculptor’s art, Is an accurate picture of the lives and times of the men who engaged in the epic cattle trade. That Is the book called “The Trail Drivers of Texas,” complied and edited by J. Marvin Hunter and published under the direction of President Saunders. The book waa originally Issued In two volumes, the first appear ing In 1920 and the second In 1923. Thla year the two volumes have been Issued as one by the ra Dwamm a# RTn 1 ^ Wl-. ' 'mir-S'r Cokesbury Press of Nashville, Tenn, When the second volume appeared, three years ago, J. .Frank Doble, a Texan, wrote of It: "The Trail Drivers pf Texas’ Is lAlt literature. Neither Is Hakluyt’s 'Voyages’ literature. Yet I have long thought the latter far superior in reality, In dramatic Interest, In the refiectlon of a grekt body of men of a great age—the English seamen of the 'spacious times' of Queen Elizabeth to B[lngsley’s ‘Westward Hoi* which Is literature. The Trail Drivers' is the very stuff from which literature la made, as Emerson Hough acknowledged. and demonstrated In his ‘North of 86.’ Yet these vol umes are. more than mere source books. They are a remarkable social document A hundred years hence people will read them for a picture of the men and times they record as we now read the diary of Samuel Pepys for Its reflection not only of Pepys, but of the age of the Restoration. "This Is high praise; It Is meant for such. Take these sketches from ‘The Trail Drivers of Texas,’ take Andy Adams’ ‘The Outlet,’ take ‘North of 36,’ and If nothing else had been written on the subject. If nothing else were ever written, yet we should have a full and a Just picture of the most picturesque and probably the most epl^ movement of men In the Western hemisphere— the movement, of 9,800,000 cattle and 1,000,000 horses by 86,000 men In 28 years’ time (estimate given by Saunders) over a weedless and beeless and an uncharted land, stretching from the Gulf of Mexico—nay. In some Instances from far Into Mexico—clear to the Dominion of Canada.” This .book, a collection of true stories of the actual experiences of these old-time cowmen, is proof again that “truth is stranger than fiction.” Do you remember when Kmwson Hough’s “North of 86” appeared some three years ago and an Eastern critic took him to task for “historical inaccuracy” and kindred sins? Perhaps you re member, too, the furore that was raised by this critic’s words. A great chorus of protest against the critic’s aspersions went up. Such noted writers as Andy Adams, Charles Slrlngo, Ehigene Manlove Rhodes, William McLeod Ralne, J. Frank Davis, E. B. Harrlman and Hugh i^Pendex- ter, Charles M. Russell, the noted cowboy painter, President Saunders of the Old Trail Drivers’ asso ciation and other members of that association, as well as dozens of old-timers in every part of the country who had ridden the cattle trails, rallied to Hough’s defense and had a hand In “taking sevejral yards of skin” off of that particular critic before they were through with him. The fact was that Hough bad obtained much of his data for bis novel from “The Trail Drivers” book. Some of his “fiction” which seemed Improbable or untrue was based on solid fact as told by the old-timers whose narratives appear in this book, and in some cases he actually toned down fact because It would have seemed too Improbable! In fact “The Trail Drivers of Texas” Is full of material whlch^a writer of fiction might hesitate to Ue lest his tale ba considered Improbable. In It e-e hundreds of stories of human endurance tested to the limit, of countless perils along the _trall, from stampedes, from thirst, from hunger, from hostUe Indians and even more desperate white men, of heroic deeds by men of whom President Saunders has well said, “i fear there will never be another set of men with such traits of character.” Andy Adams’ “Log of a Cowboy” has well been called the “epic of the cattle trade.” In this compilation of the experiences of hundreds of other old-timers there Is material for a dozen epics of the cattle trade, even though to Andy Adams must go the credit for ..having written the first one. The conditions which produced these men now seem very remote and It Is dlflScult to realize that It all began only sixty years ago, well within memory of many men now living. Consider first the cause and then the result will be wore easily understood- At the close of the Civil war Texans who had served In the Confederate armies came home to find their state In a deplorable condition. It was virtually bankrupt Texas' possessed great wealth, >ut it waa wealth which could not be realized upon. Here’s why; Daring the war the old men, small boys and negroes had taken care of the stock on the range, but the range waa overstocked and there was no market for it The western railroads had Just begun to push west into Kansas and many hundred miles sep arated the Texas herds from the railroad towns In Kansas from which the cattle could be shipped east to the markets which wanted the cattle. In 1866 one or two small herds had ventured north over a trail which later became famous as the Chisholm trail (It was named for Jesse Chis holm, a Cherokee cattle trader who had supplied the frontier posts before and during the war), and despite many hardships had proved that such a Unking of demand and supply were possible. But the real Impetus to tlie trade came about as the result of a conference In Junction City, Kan., In 1867 between Col. J. J. Meyers, a former mem ber of the Fremont expedition and a Texas cqttle hunter, and Joseph H. McCoy, a business man of ' Illinois. The arrangement was for Meyers to gather cattle In Texas, drive them overland to Abilene, Kan., where McCoy waa to take charge and arrange for the shipment east The news of the success of these two men spread like wUd- fire among the Texas cattlemen and each suc cessive year saw the mighty army of cattle men and horses marching north. And this continued for more than a quarter of a century I One of the points in Emerson Hough’s “North of 86” to which the critic took exception wgs Hough’s having a herd of 4,500 go over the trail. Yet the fact remains that herds of that size or even larger (5,000 and 6,000 In later years) did go north over the Old Chisholm traU. For they dealt In big numbers ]n those days. In this book la tho description of a traU herd strung out for 20 mdles from “point” (the leaders) to “drag” (the rear), One old-timer tells of the Joining of three herds thus: “When the two other herds came up with us we threw all three together and had about 9,000 In the bunch. Four thousand head of picked cattle were to be selected from this main herd and we started cutting early In the afternoon. By quitting time we had 600 bead cut aiid the bosg and his men took this bunch to hold for the night “At sundown, when we bedded down the cattle, there were eleven trail herds In sight. Along In the night a terrible storm came up. It was tha worst for wind, rain and lightning I ever experi enced. The cattle In all the herds broke and the next morning they were scattered over the plains as far as the eye could see In every direction. All the eleven trail herds were mixed up together. There were about 120 cowboys In the combined outfits and when we had made the general round up we had about 88,000 head In one bunch. We worked for ten days before we could get the cattla separated and In shape to get under way.” One old-timer tells of swimming herds across the Red river when It was half a mile wide a^ doing It 18 times in one day I Another tells of riding three daJis and nights on one hdrse with out sleep and with very little to eat There 1« the story, too, of one outfit which arrived In Kansas with Its cowboys actually on foot—they lost their horses but they, brought the herd through 1 No wonder Texas la proibd-nif these-, men—of that first trail driver who set forth In 1807 and, Columbus-like, dared the unknown to drive hla cattle over the trackless waste to the north and of the hundreds who followed In his footsteps and endured all manner of hardship and danger —and wishes to pay her meed of honor to them while some of them still Ut«
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