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The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains / The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain cover

The Border and the Buffalo: An Untold Story of the Southwest Plains / The Bloody Border of Missouri and Kansas. The Story of the Slaughter of the Buffalo. Westward among the Big Game and Wild Tribes. A Story of Mountain and Plain

Chapter 25: Transcriber's Note:
By John R. Cook
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About This Book

The author offers first-person reminiscences of life on the southwestern plains, tracing childhood on a turbulent border, experiences hunting vast herds of buffalo, the techniques and commerce of hide gathering, and violent clashes with Indigenous warriors and guerrillas. The narrative mixes hunting lore and survival episodes—long treks, encounters with predators, camp life, and makeshift justice—with accounts of scouts and fellow hunters who guided or rescued parties. Interspersed are reflections on the ecological devastation caused by mass slaughter of buffalo and the hardships of frontier travel, together framing a portrait of rough-and-ready frontier communities, their routines, hazards, and codes of honor.

1.   My kingdom is the prairie,
The grasses, and the flowers;
And listening to the summer wind
I while away the hours.
My wealth is but the love of you,
Who are so free from guile;
The only tribute that I ask
Is the sunshine of your smile.
CHORUS.
    My prairie princess,
Give me your heart;
I'll be unhappy if we live apart;
Transform this lonely life of mine
To gladsome summer shine;
Be my sunny-haired sweetheart,
Be my Kansas queen.
3.   No matter if the winter sky
With clouds is overcast;
Your face holds all the sunshine
Of the happy summer past;
And the morning star of boyhood
Was never half so fair,
As when the tiny snowflakes
Turn to diamonds in your hair.
CHORUS.

John Guerine, Author.

AT THE-SPRING-OF-THE-SHINING-ROCK

Transcriber's Note:

  • Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note. Other errors are noted below.
  • Punctuation and spelling were made consistent when a predominant form was found in this book; otherwise they were not changed.
  • Ambiguous hyphens at the ends of lines were retained. Word combinations that appeared with and without hyphens were changed to the predominant form if it could be determined, or to the hyphenated form if it could not.
  • Corrections in the spelling of names were made when those could be verified. Otherwise the variations were left as they were.
  • Corrections:
    • Page ix: Terwillijer's → Terwilliger's. (How Terwilliger's Cattle Stampeded.)
    • Page 21: Quantrell → Quantrill. (Quantrill was the last man he saw.)
    • Page 25: Ruffins → Ruffians. (The horde of Border Ruffians.)
    • Page 117: tie → tied them. (...could and tied them.)
    • Page 126: head the gully → head across the gully. (I turned to the south to head across the gully.)
    • Pages 128, 134: Loganstein → Lobenstein. (Lobenstein & Company.)
    • Page 149: jate → fate. (...and bemoaning his fate, as he called it.)
    • Page 299: spreckled → speckled. (...where the speckled trout leaps.)
    • Dedication page and others: Reese → Rees.
  • Variants unchanged:
    • Arkansas and Arkansaw.
    • Rinced and rinsed.