For Good or Bad : People of the Cimarron Country

by Zimmer, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780865342927
• ISBN10: 086534292X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-06-01
• Publisher: Sunstone Pr

Summary

Cimarron lies nestled on the east side of the Cimarron Range of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains in northeastern New Mexico. In the 1870s it earned a reputation as a wild and woolly frontier town that resulted from an unfortunate land grant war by which the little settlement justifiably earned its name -- Cimarron -- meaning wild, untaimed, or unbroken. Cimarron has not outlived its reputation. For better or worse, writes began recounting the events of its turbulent years almost before the last gun shots were fired. Some embellished the truth both in book and periodical form in an attempt to make a good story even better. This compilation represents a cross-section of writings about individuals who, for good or bad, played some part in the historical or legendary tradition of Cimarron.

Table of Contents

Introduction	7	(10)
Stephen Zimmer
Lucien Maxwell (1818-1875)	17	(18)
Master of the Cimarron: Lucien B. Maxwell	19	(16)
Lawrence R. Murphy
Kit Carson (1809-1868)	35	(9)
On the Rayado	37	(7)
Christopher ``Kit'' Carson
Charles Kennedy (?-1871)	44	(6)
A Head for Decoration	44	(6)
Tom Hilton
O.P. McMains (1840-1899)	50	(9)
Ministers of the Gospel	51	(8)
William A. Keleher
Clay Allison (1841-1887)	59	(18)
Clay Allison's Cimarron	61	(16)
Norman Cleaveland
Manly M. Chase (1842-1915)	77	(11)
In Cimarron, New Mexico	79	(9)
C.M. Chase
Thomas E. ``Black Jack'' Ketchum (1863-1901)	88	(23)
Black Jack Ketchum in Life and Legend	90	(21)
Larry D. Ball
Henrietta Clay Curtis Chase (1880-1927)	111	(8)
Nettie Chase's World	112	(7)
Ruth W. Armstrong
Fred Lambert (1887-1971)	119	(7)
The Making of a Law Officer	121	(5)
Agnes Morley Cleaveland
Waite Phillips (1883-1964)	126	(12)
Villa Philmonte	128	(10)
Michael Wallis
Will James (1892-1942)	138	(7)
How Will James Got His Start	140	(5)
Anthony Amaral
Shorty Murray (1897-1993)	145	(7)
Shorty	147	(5)
Stephen Zimmer
A Cimarron Chronology	152	(2)
A Cimarron Reading List	154	(2)
Index	156