The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1920-12-12
QUEER STORY OF
BUFFALO HEAD
No One Else Had a Head
Like This Man
Williams.
NAME SUITED LOOKS
Thought Horse Trader Cheat
ed Himself, SO Paid Him
$40 More Than Asked.

TNHLEQUAtL Doc. a. That
some Of tho old tim" citi2ons ~ thi"
section bore curioua ana peculiar
NICKNAME i- proved by ibc dcaigna
tions ut the places In which th'y
once l.ct ~ q ncghhothood 20
few miles distant from this plar"
thorr stood for many Years hil
house with huge stone chimney
This house was huIlt after the ula
fashioned plan long since ub'olot'
and II was known as the 'BJtfal"
Head Williams hume. IT, original
uc,upaut lvod IN the eNcntful dayH
preceding the ciNil var period, az
which umc N was well known to
many &C tho citizens of this poi-
tton Of the Indian Territory ln
those days IL was wcil known why
h" received the nickname. but dur.
ing latter times there has been
sptCuldtiou Hs 20 why man should
have been So designated
In explaining the orlgln o. th'
nickname u citi1cn Of the game ola
uciRhborhood. youth 90 the time
MIR. Williams was Yet active ON th'
shores ~ time. related some inter.
cAting fDCollrctions OF the days ot
tho past. lie. according 10 his state
mont viyidly remembered the man
OF peculiar nickname. In all the
region, 30 the aged nariator's story
went, there was NO one who hhd a
head resembling that of Williams
iIis hair grew very thick upoS the
large Uranium and was e1's.mcS
curly. = he longer the hair grow th'
more curly II became and stood ou
IN every direction, "A comb having
bat littlc effect. There was npth
ms thls old time head more r's'n'
blcd than the head of big buffalo
bulL so some other pioneer whose
name has been utterly and ire
tricvably lost saw fit To refer to the
posscssur of the curly and dcnsclS
growing hair as buffalo Head"
The nickname struck the fancy oi
others and became "a realty. VIII
liams, himself 30 far as ca bo as-
certained. didn't give dufn VIVA,
they called him II only he was called
In time for dinner" and finding ina
he felt that way about 1t there were
some of his intimate acquaintance
and friends who called him 'Buf-
ialo Head to his face, while others
who did not wish to appear rude
would not 80 address him, but when
spc1kn gto others made use OF the
expressive appellauon. so the rea
name Of the pioneer fell into v CON
dition of innocuOus desuctudr. 30 to
speak, but people living many miles
away bccan~ familiax with tn.
namo Of buffalo Head Williams,
Although of rather peculiar ap-
pearancc. Williams was u man ol
good sense. and above the averag,
In Intelligence. lie was an excel
lent Judge of horses and could tell
YOU ITO a gnat's heel what IA steed
was worth. The old minister OF the
ncighborhood having purchased u
riding horse for $50 rode over to the
Williams home and after asking
Buffalo Head" to give the animal
the once over. asked: what IL the
animal worth, Mr.. Williams the
man Of shaggy head instantly re-
piled. 1T Is worth SEQ" where
upoS the preacher rode away, inad,
his way to the no,n9 or the man
from wnom the horse Ma bcln pur-
chased and handed tnat asYonsheu
person so. stating that $50 was not
sufficient.
Buffalo Head" Williams seems
TO have lieved contentcdly in his big
house among The trees for severa
years, and then there came along y
man who may or may not have been
more handsome. Hut Mrs. Buffalo
nead" williams took II great nkinp
to tothrr man" who was some
what OF an architect and knew no"
80 build frame houses. In fact, an
liked this shower OF the plano hnt
wiclder OF the hammer 30 wei ina