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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 Joe G. Woody. Woody was born in 1880 at his father's ranch in Wise County, Texas. After his father died when he was five, he helped as a cowhand at the ranch. In his interview, he describes fencing, posses and gangs, shootouts, and dealings with Native Americans. He also discusses studying cattle, healing sores on cattle with ointment, ticks, and explains how he began commissioning cattle. He eventually started a business commissioning cattle in Fort Worth.
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-4
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