Lost Trails of the Cimarron

Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998 University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, OK. 1998. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 2nd Edition/First Printing by Line Number of the OU Edition. This book is a copy of the 1964 revised second edition by Swallow Press thus although it is a first printing run by OU the 2nd edition designation continues with it. Book is tight, square, and unmarked but for a F/O name on the title page. Book Condition: Near Fine; small splash stain on textblock fore edge near low tip; light soiling to textblock bottom edge. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 313 pp 8vo. This book is Harry Chrisman’s folk history of nineteenth-century Cimarron country - southwestern Kansas, southeastern Colorado, and the neutral strip of Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle. Buffalo hunters entered the area in violation of the Medicine Lodge Treaty, followed by cowboys and settlers who formed a vast economy based on grass and beef, the beginnings of prominent cattle ranches such as Westmoreland-Hitch Outfit. Chrisman details the history of the outlaws and ruffians of "No Man’s Land" and trail drives to Dodge City and beyond. Numerous illustrations accompany the anecdotes and stories of various frontier personalities.