![]() Our kitchen was built separate from our living quarters with a big wide hallway between. The roof was covered with shingles hauled from Wichita, Kansas, as were the windows and doors and flooring. Our home was built of logs, chinked with mud and then whitewashed with lime. We also mailed letters and got our mail at Kansas points. Our coffee was bought in the bean and had to be roasted and ground. My father always sent several freight wagons, and nothing but flour was hauled in one wagon. We doctored mostly with Grove's and Cheetham's chill tonic. The most common human ailment in the eighties was chills. The Indians mixed sumac leaves with their smoking tobacco, which gave it a fragrant odor. I have also seen them made out of the door shin bone. Some of the Indian men made pipes out of deer horns by hollowing out the main horn and one of the prongs for the stem. There were thousands of deer, wild turkey, prairie chickens, and quails, also fish. Sometimes the under side of the robes would have painted pictures and designs on them. My father owned a store at Silver City, and he traded groceries and tobacco to the Indians for beautiful, tanned buffalo robes. I have seen them trail in there to water by the dozens. There used to be a lake northeast of Minco that was called Buffalo Lake, as many buffaloes watered there. Sometimes the river would be up and the herds would have to lay over for a week at a time. The Chisholm Trail crossed the south Canadian River about two miles from our ranch. It took the freighters three weeks to a month to make the trip. We had our supplies freighted from Wichita, Kansas at first a little later, we got our groceries at Caldwell, Kansas. Some of the cows were common but were bred to registered Hereford bulls, and later he had one of the best high grade Hereford herds in the country. When I was a small child my mother and father moved to what was later called Silver City on the South Canadian River. I was born at Pauls Valley, in the Chickasaw and Choctaw Nation in 1868. Information on mother: 1/2 degree Caddo Indian Place of Birth: Pauls Valley, Indian Territory ![]() Indian Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma However, permissible to print or save the files to a personal Which they are presented, the notes and comments, etc. ![]() Information is not in and of itself copyrightable, the format in Linked to but may not be reproduced on another site without specificĬoordinator, [ their creator. The creator copyrights ALL files on this site. This material may notīe included in any compilation, publication, collection, or other reproduction Presentation hereĭoes not extend any permissions to the public. Presentation by any other organization or persons. Electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or ![]()
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