Here's a cheaper edition of what looks like the same book: http://www.upcolorado.com/bookdetail.asp?isbn=0-87081-635-7 --John Dennis Muncrief wrote: > > Hello All; > This is a little long but for those interested, it will help you somewhat. > > For those of you who are interested in Montford Johnson the famous > "Chickasaw Rancher", here is what I could find today at the library in > Ardmore. They have three books in the library and 1 is in the reference > section and the other two are in the archive section. I checked on > Amazon.com and the original book lists for over $400 which is quite a bit > for a book published in 1961. Here goes: > > Charles N. Johnson was born in England and immigrated to America when he was > 19 years old. He then emigrated to Indian Territory and the Chickasaw > Nation. He married a Chickasaw woman named Rebecca Courtney and became a > citizen by marriage. Montford Johnson was born in 1843 in the Arbuckle > Mountain area. Shortly after Montford was born Rebecca died. Charles went > back East and left Montford and his older sister Adelaide with Chickasaw > relatives at Ft. Arbuckle. There was no mention of the time span between > the death of his wife and the trip back east. It could have been months or > even many years. > > Stationed at Ft. Arbuckle was a Sgt. James Campbell. Campbell's son Michael > married Adelaide and Montford married Michael's sister Mary Elizabeth > Campbell in 1861. When Ft. Arbuckle was abandoned by Federal troops in 1861 > it was generally believed that all Federal dependents went with the troops > to Ft. Leavenworth, KS. This was not the case as Mary, Michael and Sgt. > Campbell's wife, who was a slave owner, stayed behind. Michael later was > named major in the Chickasaw Battalion during the Civil War. > > Montford went into the cattle business in 1861 at Ft. Arbuckle on a small > scale. In 1865, Montford and Jesse Chisholm were buffalo hunting on the > Canadian near Chisholm's Trading Post. Montford remarked to Jesse that this > would be prime ranch land if it weren't for the wild Indians and the > buffalo. Jesse said that he would talk to the chiefs of the wild tribes > about permitting him to ranch there without interference. > > The wild Indian chiefs agreed to allow Montford to ranch there if he only > had Indian, Negro or Mexican cowboys. They would not allow white cowboys > and by no means would they allow a Texan to work there. The Comanche and > Kiowa hated the Texans. > > Montford moved his operation to Old Ft. Arbuckle near present day Byars in > the late 1860's and the rest is history. > > If you want to know more just shell out the $400 and send it to Amazon.com. > > Dennis > > ==== OKMURRAY Mailing List ==== > Visit OKbits > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbits > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

At 01:56 PM 9/8/02, John Graves wrote: >Here's a cheaper edition of what looks like the same book: > >http://www.upcolorado.com/bookdetail.asp?isbn=0-87081-635-7 And if anybody is going to the State Fair this week, you can stop by the Oklahoma Historical Society booth and buy a copy over the counter. Paperback, $19.95 plus tax. -- Jim Kyle Proud Rootsweb contributor <a href="http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=jkyleokc"> My WorldConnect tree</a> <a href="http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jimkyle/"> My family web pages</a> <a href="http://www.jimkyle.com"> My commercial web pages</a> <a href="mailto:jimkyle@acm.org"> My Email address</a>