KS KS - A.C. Foss, 19, & Clarence Cartwright, 26, 1876

[Richard]

Buffalo Hunters circa 1876

LINKS:

Fred Fellows - The Buffalo Hunters (Lithograph)

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www.medicinemangallery.com

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/475340935648338966/

 

[cenazoic]

In case you were wondering what a ‘fellow’ is (“…wagon considerably worn had two new fellows in left hind wheel rather badly put in.”), it’s the curved wooden segments which make up the round part of the wheel, the spokes are embedded in them. Correct spelling is ‘felloe’.

Wagon Wheel Information | Wagon Wheel History | American Made Wagon Wheels

Weird that they seemed to have top of the guns and such a rickety old wagon!

 

[Richard]

Charley Siringo, cowboy and Pinkerton detective.

Clay Allison wrote:

This Newell Ranch had a very unsavory reputation given it by the man who established it and developed it as a buffalo hunting headquarters and who was a murderous outlaw and used buffalo hunting as a blind. His name was Newell. Charley Seringo has written me recently and gives me a very graphic account of one of this man's dastardly deeds.

He says: "In '77 I put up with Newell, who had just killed a young hunter by the name of Cartright, to get his money and ponies, so I was told. He later drove the horses to Colorado and sold them. Newell told me that he killed Cartright because he insulted his pretty little Spanish wife. I saw Cartright's fresh grave in a clump of hackberry trees between Newells and Cators." (We never saw this grave.)

Not until two years ago (1919) when Jim East wrote me the facts, did I know that Cartright's old mother lived for ten years in Tascosa and died of a broken heart, trying to find out where her son was buried. She had been told in Dodge City that he was killed in the Pan Handle. I could have told her all about the matter had I known of it." Unquote.


Two replica Pinkerton Badges of the era.

 

[Richard]

Bumping this thread up. This case will be 150 years old in 2026.

 

[DD Byrd]

Where is "Cators"?
This sounds like Grenada, TX (now La Plata?) and the Palo Dura Canyon?

 

[Richard]

Where is "Cators"?
This sounds like Grenada, TX (now La Plata?) and the Palo Dura Canyon?

Cators might have been another large ranch like Newell's ranch.

 

[Richard]

This case is now 150 years old. It might be considered partly solved, since there is a third hand report that an outlaw named Newell murdered Clarence Cartwright, buried his body, and stole his hides, equipment and horses. No information regarding, A.C. Foss, however.

 

[Richard]

Mrs. Cartwright identified one of the horses as a "dark bay Texas horse branded on the left hip joint with a V and some kind of line underneath; I don't remember whether it was a curve or a bar" The description would possibly indicate that it was a V bar brand which was in use at the time and might be found in a "brand book" published in different states. I was able to find a V bar brand in a Texas brand book which was used by a ranch in the Wichita area as early as 1867 by W. S. Ikhard.

LINK:

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