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A transcript of a Cowboy Narrative, or Rangelore, interview conducted by Woody Phipps for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s with former cowboy Dan Deering. Deering was born in Alabama, but moved to Gonzales County, Texas in 1869 at the age of 4. In the interview, he describes the life of a cowboy in the late 1800s, including a cattle drive along the Western Trail to Kansas City, moving several ranches, and an attempt to settle in Woodward, Oklahoma during the Oklahoma Land Rush of 1893. Deering eventually worked for Tom Waggoner on his ranch, breaking horses for cattle ranching uses. He became the foreman at the ranch and at the Arlington Downs racetrack, and also trained several of Waggoner's race horses.
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-3-10
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