The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-27
Men and Women Who
Rode Into Strip in
'93 Belong
TO HOLD BIG RODEO
Joe Miller, One of Leading
Members Of Association
of Old Riders
.n,clal 10 Tn. World.


when the strip was opened TO white
settlement. It's members are. there
fore, veterans at the present time
each one with his particular story
ot the things that happened wbsn
10 was necessary for the COW ni,pcbl
er 10 be an Indian fighter also A.
npuncement has iust been made h,,
bSar Brewster OF Crescent tho .oc,
retary Of the association, thai tbo
buffalo pasture os the fOf ranrh
has been made the permanent. an
nual meeting place for the memher,
and that they viii meet this year
on september 2. 3 and 4--Saturday.
sunday and Monday Uabor DavS
in conjunction with the nnnyoi
roundup and Indian camp at the
ranch.
The official title OF the organ,za-
tlon Is the Cherokee Strip COW
Punchers association. II was organ
Ted on September 6. 1920, on Cow
BOY Hill' In the buffalo pasture
and az the present time there are
215 members In good standing. The
majority, of course, are living in
Oklahoma, but the membership ex-
tends also over Texas, New Mexico
Arizona, Colorado, Kansas. cali
fornia, Missouri, Arkansas. Iowa,
oregon and Washington. Every man
Nls a COW puncher during the time
Rat the Cherokee strip was a cat
tleman's paradise and known in his
tory rs one OF the greatest cattle
domains that ever existed.
The association was organized for
the purpose Of bringing the veterans
together annually, thus promoting
better fraternity among those, who
hn 4
shared their hardships and were
brothers to each other under all con-
ditlons. To foster that spirit of fell
lowshlp by organization, making II
possible in the years remaining to
get together at least once annually. 3"
The first roster ofuhe members was
secured through difficulties by the
secretary but 1t Is being rearranged
and added 10 gradually. and in addi-
ton the secretary is collecting all
available data about the members.
living and dead, and the organiza-
ton itself, so that he may supply the
information to those who may de-
sire Il. Naturally this data includes
much that is Of great historical
value
Men Who Rode the Range.
The reunions OF the association
have been wonderful meetings,
where the members brought their
equipment for camping out and told
the tales OF things that happened
and sang the songs that they sang
while riding the range prior 10 '93.
Each night there IA a campfire with
plenty OF barbecued meat and cider
on tap. experience meetings that run
far into the night with stories OF the
roundup, brushes with the Indians
necktle parties for rustlers, and all
the memories that are connected
with chaps and larlat and spur.
Here assemble the men who have
ridden the Chisolm trail, who know
Pat Hennessey and Bat Masterson
and Jesse Chisolm personally. who
visited Abilene and Dodge City and
Caldwell when they were wide open
border, cowboy townsville ends Of
the railroads; who have driven the
herds from Texas to Kansas, cut the
wire fences Of the persistent home
steaders and then protected them
against Indian attacks-men, who
because of their lives in the open.
are still young men in physique de-
spite the fact that they are grizzled
veterans.
Never Bought Blanket.
"No cowboy ever bought horse
blanket in those days" was q story
told at the campfire. "The Ponca In
diars buried their dead on top OF
the ground and they would place
Nssde the body handsome saddle
Eankets as well as other equipment
tor the warriors use in the happy
hunting ground. l can tell the
world now that very few OF them
eyer used n saddle blanket after
death, for the cowboys got them all,
Abe Banta OTIS a wonder that
Shorty GibFon. Bill Hart or Tom
Mix hasn't worked that name into
the films) of Billings was the firs'
president OF the cowpunchers asso'
ciation, but Col. Joe c. Miller OF the
l0i ranch has that distinction now
with Oscar Brewster OF Crescent
continued as secretary-treasurer
And the association has grown &c
such an extent that II was necessary
last year 10 name an executive com
mittee TO help out with the work
and also a Ladies Auxiliary" The
old boys have learned the worth ol
the ladies' since the days they
Wiped" II across the prairies OF th'
Ch$okee Strip. Mrs. BILLY" Fox o
MaFhall is the president and MRS
Oscar Brewster OF Crescent the sec
retary, and the wives of all the cow
boys are eligible to membership.
President Joe Miller has name(
Ike Clubb OF Kaw City, Hugo Mild
OF Kaw. Link Barr OF Dover, Georg'
Lalng Of Kingfisher and Monte Tat
OF Oklahoma City as his executive
committee. Some OF the members
who attended the last reunion, wer'
pasl so years old, having been mei
OF past middle age when the stril
was opened.
Hand the Palm 20 Brewster.
Whenever the old cowpuncher
meet they invariably call upon Os
car Brewster 10 cook a few dozel
pans OF biscuit, for II develops tina
Brewster was famous chef in COW
boy camps, prior to '93. There neye
was a cowboy camp that hot bis
suits were not served regularly.
HThat was because the package
OK baking powder put out In thos
Gays carried a recipe on the ca
telling how 10 make hot biscuit,
says Brewster. land every fellow ina
ever cooked in a cowboy cam
learned how to make them"
Brewster claims that he broke tn
open prairie cooking record, bacl
IN 81, when he cooked three meal
oaily for from 35 to So men for
period OF 81 days, during whicI
Col George Miller Gather OF the 10
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