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20140058-65
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A transcript of an Ex-Slave Narrative interview conducted by Sheldon F. Gauthier for the Works Progress Administration's Federal Writers' Project in the 1930s with James Cape. Cape, who believed he was over 100 years old at the time of the interview, was born into slavery in southeast Texas on the cattle ranch of Bob Houston. His primary work while enslaved was as a horse wrangler and cowhand. He describes his work as a cowhand, including riding horses, cattle, stampedes, and trail drives. He also describes joining the Confederate Army to care for the horses, but later being forced into fighting and getting wounded in the shoulder at the Battle of Independence in Missouri. After the war, he describes working as a cowhand, first for an outfit of rustlers, then for the notorious outlaw Jessie James.
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Undated
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Works Progress Administration, Federal Writers' Project. Fort Worth City Guide Draft and Records.
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AR316-4-6
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