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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 C. E. Stetler. Stetler was born in 1876 on a farm in Rhome, Iowa. At 10, he began working for a butcher in Burlington, Iowa as a cowhand. Later, he moved to Wichita, KS and then eventually to Fort Worth, where he worked both as a cowhand and as a cattle salesman for the Evans-Snyder-Buel Commission Company. In his interview, he discusses stampedes, rustling, and notes the evolution of cowhand's work in the early twentieth century. He also describes his job buying, selling, and making loans on cattle at the Fort Worth Stockyards.
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-3
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