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Boone Boys Frontiersmen and their Great Wild West Show The Autobiography of Pecos Pate Boone revised and republished by Clyde Douglas Boone now available for only $24.95 in hardback 336 pages with dustcover. Spring of 2005- Pecos Pate Boone’s retelling of his life story and the story of the birth of the Boone Boys Wild West Show tells the story of emigration to Texas after the Civil war and life on the Texas frontier as it moved west in the period from 1880 through 1925. Homesteader, Cowboy, Marksman, Showman, Blacksmith, Spur maker, Antique dealer, but best of all a first rate storyteller! Thomas Payton Boone 1887 – 1980 known to all as simply Pecos Pate after getting lost as a teenager in the Pecos river valley while rounding up free range cattle. An Excerpt… “I jumped down from my horse, picked up the bomb and heaved it over the sidewall. As it exploded outside our tent, Oscar Boyles, the clown, caught sight of the boys who threw it and took out after them - but armed only with old six shooters loaded with soap bullets.” Thus begins one of the many funny and exciting stories Pate tells of his Wild West Show meeting the real wild west of frontier town life in rural Oklahoma of 1913. Almost accidentally he and his brother Bob discover newcomers from back east would pay good money to see him try to break the wild Mexican horses they brought back to Texas after fleeing the drought of 1903. As they took their show on the road, they also found to their delight local cowboys who would pay to ride the stock to show their own talent. Pate tells of the actual birth of the Rodeo as an exhibition and as a sport. This book indexes the talents of some 40 early rodeo cowboys and cowgirls and lists many of the more famous stock on which they road to early fame. The Wild West Show of the early 1900’s features men who were tough and every small town had its own men with tough reputations. When a local cowboy was shown up by the visitor’s stock or the visitor’s talent, the show company had to deal with the resulting hard feelings which in the case of this one rural crossroads community turned violent. Other stories relate to the great rides of some otherwise forgotten cowboy who was exceptionally good at his trade and who would become a successful showman regardless of background race or family connections. Pate’s stories paint a picture of the exciting life of a kid growing upon the nineteenth century frontier of Texas and as a young homesteader and cowboy trying to build a ranch in the desert of the New Mexico Territory. Still other stories detail the frontier women who were not only Cowgirls as talented as the men in their own ways, but also provided the spice of the 20 era’s flappers. Pate, always the proper gentleman, insisted on dancing with each new “dime-a –dance” girl who traveled with the show to check that she was wearing a proper corset! (He obtained letters of decency in this way from the local clergy to pass on in the next town at which the show was to play in order to get permits for a dancehall.) Their Wild West Show was exceptionally successful and later joined by their younger brothers Clyde and Dee the Boone Boys Wild West Show grew to over 150 employees and its own private train replacing the original canvas covered show Wagons. Return to Home Page Table of Contents Dedication Editor's Preface To The Second Edition Page Number followed by Chapter Title 17 The Early Boones 24 Round Timber 32 Mr. Paine 41 The Ghost Of The Old JRF Ranch 42 Old Brazos On A Rise 44 Leaving Old Round Timber 47 Spanish American War 49 Trent, Texas 51 Dry Rain 55 Midland's Last Badger Fight 57Uncle Peter Of Five Wells 59 The Disappointed Blacksmiths 63 New Mexico Fever 65 Zebra Dun 73 The Trip To Midland 76 Bronco Bob Boone's Stetson Hat That Saved A Cowboy And His Horse 79 Rattler, Not Welcome 81 Christmas Tree 83 Wildcat 86 The Quirt And The Antelope 89 Southeastern New Mexico's First Cemetery 92 How Monument Springs Got Its Name 93 How I Was Saved By A Hyer Boot 101 How Bob Got The Name Bronco Bob 105 Capturing The Zebra Dun 112 Blackwell's Ranch 116 Fred Hall and Dad’s Bull Return to Home Page 118 Bronco Bob's Idea 124 The Panama Kid 133 Foxey, The Red River Outlaw 138 Crossing The South Canadian 139 John Gray and Dad’s Bull 140 Fullers Ranch Indian Picnic 148 How I Got Old Crazy Snake 147 My Own Hall Of Fame 147 List Of Horses 150 List Of Cowboys 151 List Of Cowgirls 152Arkansas Posse 153 Bob And I Combine Our Wild West Shows 158 The Old Blue Roan 169 Ed Lively 170 The Dead Negro Came To 173 The Arkansas Hog Herder And Budweiser 178 Hackberry Slim 181 The Granite Prison Fire Return to Home Page 183 The Bomb Exploded 187 Cop, The Clown Got Arrested 190 Jail And The Horse Doctor 193 My Trip North 204 A Lot Of Bull 207 Red Oak 209 Days Of 49 212 The Balloon Ride 213 The Search 218 Asian Flu 223 Inda 228 Lady 232 Fancy Duds 234 Floating Wagons Return to Home Page 236 Paw Paw 242 How My Father-In-Law Was Murdered 244 Wildcat And The Photographer 247 Hinkles Red Wolf 253 Pawnee Bill 257 Closing The Show 259 Fort Worth's 50th Celebration 261 Mertzon 270 Bull Shoeing 271 Elk Hunting 275 Deer Hunting 282 Old Timers Reunion 287 Frijoles 292 Burt Houston 294 The Founding Of Knickerbocker, Texas 295 Barnhart Was A Big Shipping Point 296 George Weir 297 The Buffalo 303 Cynthia Ann 315 Like Heaven Would Be Return to Home Page 317 Epilog 319 Appendix A - The Genealogy Of Thomas Payton Boone 320 Index Of Photos And Maps 326 Index Of People and Places Return to Home Page Index of Photos and Maps Included in this Book Dee Boone circa 1906 Ben Fullinghom mounting Budweiser Bob Holland, World's Toughest Boone Boys Pecos Pate & Bronco Bob Boone Boys Clyde, Pate, Dee Boone Family 1904 Bronco Bob and the Cowgirls, a 1915 postcard Charles Loranzie Boone Clate Boone Family 1895- Emmye Ann, Charles Robert, Thomas Payton, with Clate and Francis Abigale Boone Clate's Store Late 1920's in Crane, Texas Dad's C-B Brand Daniel Boone Half Dollar 1935 Dee Boone on Whirlwind Return to Home Page Dee Boone Spinning Ropes Frank Smith on Budweiser Hackberry Slim Johnson Hands Up, a 1915 postcard Inda Vernon Boone Lady the high diving dog Linam Ranch Sign Christoval Texas Map of Brazos River Valley 1883 Map of Monument Spgs New Mexico Territory. Map of New Mexico Territory 1898 Map of North East Texas 1876 Map of Round Timber Area Map of South Central Texas 1879 Map of South West Texas 1889 Map of Western North Carolina Marvin Grimes rides Billy Quantrill Return to Home Page Montana Belle Mr. and Mrs. Ed Glynn My Dad J.C. Clate Boone My Father in Law, P.A. Boots, Cleveland Ok My Mother Francis Abigale Campbell My Son Tom & Inez on my Pullman Car Old Paintings of Daniel Boone Pate and Inda Boone Hobbs New Mexico Pate Boone about 1910 Pate busts shells tossed by Red Ward Pate near Licks Tank Pate shoeing the Bull in Hobbs Pate's Pet Buffalo- Cynthia Ann Return to Home Page Pecos Pate Boone 1915 Pecos Pate Boone about 1965 Pecos Pate on Wildcat- Rapp Green Shaftner Lake Texas 1900 Studebaker 1914 Thomas Whittington (Whit) Boone Tom Boone at Clayton Oklahoma Tom Boone World's Youngest Cowboy William McDuffie (Duff) Boone Woody and Tom Boone Return to Home Page Clayton Boone Pecos Pate Boone To Order this book, ask your local bookstore for ISBN0-8765294-0-8 Library of Congress 200500590 Or better yet, order direct from us If you wish to phone your order, phone us at 800-755-6628 Visa and MasterCard Accepted Or send email with your contact information to orders@boonebooks.com Return to Home Page Index of People and Places As discussed in this book 16th N.C. Regiment 17 808 Saloon and Restaurant 55 84 Ranch 82 Abilene 49,118 Abilene West Texas Fair 120 Adrian 285-286 Albert Hogan 149 Aledo, Oklahoma 252 Alfred Waters 149 Allen 296 American West 318 Anchor B Brand 64,101,119 Anchor B Ranch 112 Andrews 297 Antique Store 309-312,317 Apache 141 Appendix 318 Ardmore, Oklahoma 187 Arizona 256 Arkansas 151,174,205,317 Arkansas Hog Herder 174 Armour Packing Company 259 Army 131 Artesia 269 Asian Flu 217 Atkins 291 Atoka 251 Austin 177 Babe 33 Baker & Lockwood's Tent Co 232 Baldy Williams 82 Balloon 212 Barlow Reynolds 293 Barnhart 294 Bart Hester 101,149,170,195,204 Bart Westfall 294 Baylor County 25,91,92 Beasley 251 Ben Davis 149 Ben Fullinham 149 Ben Howell 149,173 Best, Texas 231,232,258 Big Bend Country 261 Big Spring.Texas 52,60,,111,119 Big Steer Roping Match 295 Bill Daniels 174 Bill Kennedy 121,149 Billboard 194 Billy Quantrill 121-154,181-281 Bird 294 Black Mountains 18 Blackland belt 22 Blackland Prairie 20 Blackwell 112 Blackwell's Ranch 112 Blondy Ward 149 Blue Dog 106 Boas 285 Boast 49,118 Bob Boone 26-300 Bob Crosby 295 Bob Holland 308 Bob Malone 149 Boggy Ball 148 Bones 165 Bones 165-167 Bonner 213-216 Booger Red 133 Boone Boys 315 Boone's Antiques 284 Boots 241-244 Bowie, Texas 176 Bowley, Oklahoma 179 Bradford 312 Brazos River Valley 23,33,43 Brenham 129 Bronco Bob Boone 75,106,118 Buck Williams Bucking Bill 190 Bud Moore 65 Bud Moore Windmills 101 Bud Ross 149 Buddy Carr 303 Budweiser 148-174,202,250 Buffalo Bill Show 81, 203, 253 Bugger Red 150 Bunk Selman 269-303 Burnsville, N.C. 18 Burt Houston 291-307 C bar B 64 C Ranch 67 C. J. Campbell. 20 C.H. Hyer Boot Company 98 Cal Parks 35 Calaria, Oklahoma 175 Calary, Oklahoma 171 California 162 Callahand County 47 Campbell 21 Canada 118,130 Canada 131 Capitan Mountains 76 Captain Shafter 74 Carlsbad, New Mexico 71-96,295 Carmen, Texas 154 Carnival Company 247 Carolina 131 Cash, Oklahoma 143 Castro 131 Cavel 292 C-B Ranch 67 Charles Loranzie Boone 43 Charles Robert (Bob) Boone 21 Cherokee 148 Cherokee Hammonds 149 Chicago Ledger 47 Chief Carrells 149 Christoval Texas 284-317 Chuck Wagon 65 Clate Boone. 17 Clayton, Oklahoma 250 Cleveland, Oklahoma 222,240 Clines Corner 270 Clyde Boone 7, 47-50,218-316 Clyde Douglas Boone 5 Clyde Newbury 294 Clyde, Texas 46 Coats 51 Coats Ranch 51 Col. P. C. Sams 25 Col. William R. Shafter 74 Colbert, Oklahoma 171,211 Cole Younger 148,162,163 Collin County, 20 Collins Walker 269 Colorado City 50 Comanche 91,102-114,,143,307 Concho River 293 Confederate Veteran 19 Cook 89 Cook's Store 88 Corpus Christi 300 Cougar 148 Cowboy Weir 295 Cowboy's Reunion 29 Craig 30-40 264 Crazy Snake 144-147,316 Creighton 310,311 CSA First Battalion, 19 Cuba 131 Culberson County 286 Cynthia Ann 302 Daisy 85 Dal Farr 26 Dallas, Texas 125,162 Danger 148,250 Daniel Boone 17,319 Daniel Boone Coin 5 Daniel Dee Boone 44 Dave Craig 149,158,164 Days of 49 213 Deborah Howell 319 Decauter 143,169,173,218,223 Dee Boone 130,150,204-310 Del Rio 267 Denver Colorado 118,223,285 Devil's River 148 Dobbs Bradford 304 312 Dobson 192 Doc Cokes 312 Dove Creek 293 Doyle 261 Dr. Callaway 58 Dr. Jones 291 Dr. Lankford 261 Dublin Ranch 65,114,115 Duff 38 Durant. Oklahoma 190 Dykes 133 East Barber 106 East Texas 292 Eclipse 110 Ed Boots 242 Ed Evans 194,202 Ed Evans Greater Shows 194,204 Ed Glenn 222 Ed Lively 319 Ed Ramsey 95,101 Eldridge 54 Elmer Boots 242 Elsie Boyles 150 Emmye Ann Boone 21,30 England 292 Ennis, Texas 26 Ethel Boone 299,301,302 Eunice 297 Eunice, New Mexico 295 Eureka Kansas Exeter Pa 319 Exeter UK 319 Fair Association 143 Farmersville, Texas 20 Federal Government 286 Fiddling Bob 17 Five Wells Ranch 57,59 Flat River 148 Flaxey 148,190 Floating Wagons 233 Florida 131 Floyd Walker 150 Foxey, 133,148 Francis Abigail Campbell 20,319 Frank Smith 149,214,245 Frank White 275 Fred Beasley 251 Fred Hale 281 Fred Hall 115,118 Fred Muller's Saddle Co 118,249 Frijoles, Texas 286 Ft. Gibson 135 Ft. Griffin 47 Ft. Smith, Arkansas 205 Ft. Stockton 261 Ft. Worth, Texas 92,173,205-300 Fullers Ranch Indian Picnic 140 Gaines 283 Gainesville. Texas 157,190,192 Gal Leg Spurs 82 Galveston, Texas 293 Garland Gaines 315 Gash 136 Gates Ranch 68 Gene 181 Gene Dobson 180,190 George and Burt Weir 295 George Boone 319 George Boone IV 319 George Newbury 294 George Weir 220,295 George Yokum 135,155 Georgia 131 Germany 131 Geronomo Horse Camp 270 Gertrude 216 God 315 Gordon Kansas 217,229 Grand Island, Nebraska 205 Grandma Hobbs 295 Granite Prison 183 Greece 292 Greenvine, Texas 20,27 Greenwood County 223 Grey Doll 148 Grey John 137-140 Grimes 124 Gulf Coast 293 Guthrie, Oklahoma 136,256 Guy Boone 30 Hackberry 150,180 Hackberry Slim Johnson 177-179 Hades 76 Hale 282 HAT Ranch 65,70,91,100,295 Heaven 315,316 Henderson Ranch 53 Henry Teague 62-79 Hi Lonesome Ranch 95,291 High Lonesome Mills 110 Hinkle 248 HINKLES RED WOLF 247 Hobart 247 Hobbs, New Mexico 161,270, 281-306 Hog Creek Settlement 36,42,43 Hogan 171 Holland 301 Holland Estate 301 Houston 299 Huck's trail 260,266 Illinois 203 Inda Boots Cohn 221-319 Inda Vernon Boone 150 Inda Vernon Cohn 222 Index of People and Places 322 Index of Photos and Maps 320 Iowa 203 Irish Cop 204 Israel 17 Israel Boone 319 Italy 291 J R F Ranch 26 J.B. Russell 291 J.I. Bird 293 Jack County 22 Jack Marion 296 Jack Teague 106 Jack Waters 55,296 JAL Ranch 110 Jal, New Mexico 297 James V. Linam 296 Jeremiah Boone 319 Jeremiah Clayton Boone 17,318 Jess Willard 170 Jesse James 148 Jim Cook 71 Jimmy Odair 211 Joe Balch 150 Joe Key 149 Joe Moor 36 Joe Winters 126,149,160 John 42,83 John B. Stetson 78,95 John Chalk 30 John R. McSpaddin 125-130,149 John Rapp 130 Johnson's Ranch 262 Jonathan Boone 319 Joplin, Missouri 190,230,251 Joseph Tweedy 293 JRF Ranch 34-39 Juan Martinez 270 Judge Campbell 20 Justin, Texas 170 Kansas 194,217,234,243 Kansas City 232,245 Ken Tounget 305 Ketchem Ranch 291 King Dodo 131 Knickerbocker, Texas 293 Knowles 297 L.B. Cox and Co 294 Lancaster, Mo. 205 Latchman Lewis Carnival 190-192 Lawton, Oklahoma 136-140,307 Lea County State Bank 268 Lea County, New Mexico 62 LeBoutillier 309,313 Lee Martin 48,51 Lee McCameron 47 Leedey, Oklahoma 130 LeFlore 234 Lem Willis 182 Lemon Brothers Circus 27 Lewis Farr Sr. 288,294 Lewis Kincade 286 Lick Tank Country 277 Lige Semmons 149 Linam Ranch 296 Llano Escatato 91 Lola 221 Long S Ranch 57 Lora Boone 30,31,83,150 Lorita Woody 228,229 Lou How 30 Major Lilly 253,255 316 Malone Boys 134 Mark Malone 122-149,282-284 Martinez 270 Marvin Grimes 123,149 Mary Jane Green Boone 187150155 Mary Maugridge 319 May 221 McAlester, Oklahoma 189-195 McCameron 48 McGonigal 106 McGonigal's Ranch 95 McGuin 46 McKinney, Texas 109 Merkel,Texas 44,109,120,163,281 Mertzon 260 Mexican 98,100 Mexico 65.262,284 Midland, Texas 51-96 Midway 175 Miller 202 Miller Brothers 101 Ranch 202 Mills Ranch 41 Milt Hinkle 247 Mineral Wells, Texas 152 Minnesota 203 minstrel show 213 Atha Rogers 229 Missouri 203 Mocksville NC 319 Model T. Ford 129 Momument Springs 101 Monahans, Texas 66,96 Montague, Texas 126 Montana 119 Montana Belle 150,223,224 Montana Earl Brumbo 149 Montana Red 150 Montgomery Wards 35 Monument Springs 59,64 71-101,220,295,306 Mora Flats 270-273 Mother Barr's Boarding house226 Mrs. Boots 241 Mrs. Cohn 223 Mrs. Crain 281 Mrs. Gaines 309 Mrs. Glynn 222 Mrs. Hobbs 295 Mrs. Latchman 190 Mrs. Linam 302-306 Mrs. Mellick Tweedy 293 Mrs. Sheppard 226-228 Mrs. Thompson 218 murder 241 Muskogee. Oklahoma 205 Naughty Nellie 148 Navajo 43,148,159,170 Navajo 158 Neats Foot Oil 126 Nebraska 203 New Mexico Ter, 63,106,295 New York 293 Newton, Kansas 194 Nocona, Texas 165,173 North Concho River 292 O.B. Trap Company 294 Odair 212 Odessa 51,52,53 oil camp 241 Oklahoma City 136,226 Oklahoma City Capitol 137 Oklahoma Curley Roberts 149 Olathe, Kansas 98,101 Old Hiram 76 Old Mexico 91,154, 302 Olney, Texas 24 Open A Ranch 103-104,112-114 Ora Boone 30,31,83,150 Orville Cohn222-230,303,309,317 Oscar Boyles 187-204,221,247 Overland show 209 Owney 147 Owney Ranch 147 Ozona 294 P.A. Boots 240 Paine 33-36 Panama 125 Panama Kid 125 Parker Carnival 194 Paw Paw 240 Pawnee Bill 253 Pawnee, Oklahoma 147,253 Pecos 96,270 Pecos River 91,106,272 Penny 149 Permian Basin 74 Perrin 55 Perry Sumerly 88 Petersburg 17 Pink Dykes 132 Plano, Texas 5 Poncho 271,275,290 Poor 37-38 Portales, New Mexico 110 Poto, Oklahoma 190 Powder River 190 Powdered Face Ekard 149 Prairie Ed Boone 150 President 217 Pullman 130,205 Quannah Parker 141,144,307 Quantrill 155,181 R.L. Slaughter 57 Railey 48 Railroad Show 209 Railway Express Agency 286 Ramsey 95 Rapp Green 120-200 Rawhide 148 Reckless Slim 149,234,247-250 Red Grafton 152 Red Oak 148,205 Red Oak, Oklahoma 204 Red River 132,195 Red Rocking Chair 134 Red Ward 148,221 Red Wing 148 Red Wolf 247 Rio Grande 91,260 Roanoke 169 Robert 19 Robert Boone 319 Robert Holland 301 Robert J. P. Boone 17 Robinson 91,95 Roscoe 50,112,122 Roswell 95 Round Timber 25-47 Rube Knowles 296 Rube Roberts 150 Russell 291 Rustling Trap 112 Sally McHand 319 Sams 25 San Angelo. Texas 132,260,300 San Antonio 293 Santa Fe 270 Sarah Morgan 319 Saturday Blade 47 Sawyer Cattle Company 294 Scott and Robinson 91,95, 295 Scurry County 62 Senator A.S. Hawkins 66 Sentinel, Oklahoma 247 Seymour 25-33 Shafter Lake 74 Sheffield 294 Sherwood 260 Slaughter 57 Slaughter 58 Smith and West n 273 Snake 145 South Canadian River 137 Southwest City Missouri 212 Southworth 286 Spanish American War 47 Spring Creek 35,38,43,120 Squire Boone 319 St. Joseph's Hospital 173 St. Peter 316 Staked Plains 91 Stanton Switch 52 Steamboat 259,316 Steve Gaines 104,305 Steve Taylor 103 Streak 290 Studebaker 269 Studebaker station wagon 303 Sunset, Texas 180 Susana Nixon 319 Sweetwater, Texas 267 T.P. Depot 259 T.P. Limited Express 44 Taylor Boy's Ranch 69 Teague 59,62,101 Teddy 190 Tempie Ann Harris Boone 18,319 Texas and Pacific RR 51,67,96 Texas Range 318 Texas Rangers 100 Teddy Show 190 The Zebra Dunn 101 Thomas (Pecos) Pate Boone 317 Thomas Robert Boone 319 Thomas Wesley Boone 19 Threadgill 213-216 Tiny 33 Toddy Cigarettes 38 Tom Green County 293 Tom Robert Boone 170,183,189, 223,264,293.299 Tony Wagoner Toots 229 Trent 43,112,119,152,281 Trinity River 20 True West Magazine 130 Tuck Henson 292 Tuska 234 Uncle Duff 43 Uncle Peter 57,58-59 United States 302 Valliant,Ok 244 Van Price 149 Vernon, Texas 132 Villa 262 Virgil 296-302 Washington County 20 Washington D.C. 83 Washington Irving 293 West Texas 293 Whirlwind 109,148 Whistling Bullet 106 Whit Boone 38-43 White 216 White Breaks 101 White Flat 34 Wichita Brakes 27,230 Wichita Falls 27 Wichita, Kansas 221 Wild West Show 307 Wildcad 128,244 Will 104 Will and Steve 69 Will Rogers 229 Willgates Country 68 William Cody 253 William Hall 205 Willis Barbee 121,149 Will's Construction Company 257 Wm. P. Hall 205 Woody 228-230 World War I 131 World War II 297 Wortham, Texas 257 Wyona. Oklahoma 218 XQZ Ranch 292-293,307 Yancey County, N. C. 19 Yellowhand 82 Zebra Dunn 105-110,148 Return to Home Page