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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.3 | The History Cooperative

Warpath and Cattle Trail. By Hubert E. Collins, ed. by William W. Savage Jr. and James H. Lazalier. (Niwot: University Press of Colorado, 1998. xxvi, 296 pp. Cloth, $34.95, isbn 0-87081-492-3. Paper, $17.50, isbn 0-87081-468-0.)

The Merchant Prince of Dodge City: The Life and Times of Robert M. Wright. By C. Robert Haywood. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1998. xviii, 236 pp. $27.95, isbn 0-8061-3073-3.)

Although they overlap in time and are centered in the same general geographical area, these two studies in local history have relatively little in common with each other and thus merit separate consideration. 1

Warpath and Cattle Trail is a memoir written by Hubert E. Collins about his experiences as an eleven-year-old boy in Indian Territory. Collins journeyed west in 1883 to join his older brother on the Red Fork ranch. William Morrow published his recollections in 1928. This reprint of that edition includes the original foreword by Hamlin Garland and the author's introduction as well as a new five-page introduction by William W. Savage Jr., professor of history at the University of Oklahoma, and James H. Lazalier, professor emeritus at Rose State College in Midwest City, Oklahoma. 2

Savage and Lazalier offer several justifications for this edition. They label the book "a rip-roaring yarn and a splendid collection of regional lore." It is, they contend, 3

a social history of the last days of the nineteenth-century frontier, with accounts of cattle drives, dog feasts, fiddle-playing gun men, burial practices in coyote country, and people who got shot right between the eyes and arose and walked (well, staggered, really) away.

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