| dc.creator | McSpadden, Herb | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-07-29T17:07:22Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-07-29T17:07:22Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1934-06-29 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.tcu.edu/handle/116099117/47833 | |
| dc.description | Letter from Herb McSpadden, nephew of Will Rogers, to Amon Carter regarding a brand sent from Will Rogers. | |
| dc.format.medium | 7.25x10.5 Paper | |
| dc.relation | Amon G. Carter Papers (MS 014) | |
| dc.rights | Prior written permission from TCU Special Collections required to use any document or photograph | |
| dc.source | Box 157, Rogers, Will 1934 Folder, Item 043 | |
| dc.subject | Rogers, Will | |
| dc.title | Letter re: brand | |
| dc.type | Document | |
| dc.description.transcription | Oologah Okla June 29 '31 Mr Amon Carter Dear Sir - Had a letter from Mr Roger's sec, and she said you wanted one of his branding irons. Am sending you on of his irons the Dog iron. When the Mo. Pac. Railroad built through from Coffeyville Kans south through Claremore in '89 they fenced their right of way. That cut the Rogers range in two. They had all this country between the Verdigris & Caney rivers. Will Rogers father went to Texas and bought 3500 cows to stock the country west of the railroad. They shipped them up line and there was 75 or 80 calves their mothers wouldn't own being jammed so much. Will Rogers father gave them to him if he could raise them. When they got big enough to brand he figured out this brand and put on them and continued to use it as his personal brand until the closing out of the open range and an awful dry year when he left this country 1901. His fathers brand was CV cattle and J4 horses. Now this iron is not on of his old original iron. I had this one made and am disappointed in it. These modern black smiths know more about sharpening a plow shear or welding a Ford fender than they do about making a branding iron. The old time workman was thorough. He'd spend more time hewing a set of house logs or chipping out the key stone to a fire place than his modern brother would in paving a big (?) especially if election were near. As for the iron its better to adorn the walls of a den than the side of a cow. You like to look at them when they've got a paunch full of grass, standing at a watering with a big old fat calf sucking - but when there aint enough moisture on a section of land to (?) a staple and you hear of the tax on hides you want to hang all your branding irons up. Come by some time in your travels. I'll show you a land rich in romance and history, but getting mighty poor in sail; but we have a new Moses running for governor of Okla if he can't lead us out of this persimmon wilderness he will teach us how to eat the persimmons. Yours, Herb McSpadden. | |
