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20134672-87
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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 J. C. Hess. Hess was born in Wisconsin, but his father moved the family to Kansas and then Oklahoma when he was a child. He grew up around cows and horses, and describes breaking horses, relations with Native Americans, stampedes, trail drives, and various skilled riders he met in his years as a cowhand. He worked at his father's ranch, the YL outfit and AUY outfits in Oklahoma, and the Anchor D, SSS, Bell, LX, and ST ranches in New Mexico. Hess also describes "vigilance committees" in Oklahoma, and being invited to join the Ku Klux Klan.
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-3-11
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