The Cattleman’s Pages of History T
HE CATTLEMAN MAGAZINE IS 100 YEARS OLD. WE THOUGHT WE’D TAKE A FEW MIN- utes each month to look back at 100 years of covers and coverage of the cattle business of the Southwest.
Our historic cover this month comes from April 1926. Erwin E. Smith provided this photograph, “King of the Pots and Pans,”
for the cover. The cutline reads, “The sun is high in the heavens. Just a little while and ‘Mit’ Smith, the king of the pots and pans will be singing out the old familiar refrain, ‘Come and git it, or I’ll throw it out.’ While Smith swings the irons around the big dutch ovens and the two-gallon coffee pot, George Pattullo, author of Western stories that had wide appeal, reclines in the shade.”
The Cattleman April 1926
Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (TSCRA) members were celebrat-
ing the association’s 50th anniversary at the annual convention. These 3 gentlemen were honored in “Veterans Boys Again at Golden Anniversary.” From left are H.G. Bedford, D.B. Gardner, and J.H. Graham. “More than half a century in the saddle — fi fty years and more of keeping back
marauding bands of Indians, cow thieves, drought, pestilence, disaster and defl ation has not stilled the boy spirit of three pioneers who formed the ‘old guard’ at the Golden Anniversary convention of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association. They were attentive participants in the convention sessions and between times when the spirit of levity was having full sway they were in the very midst of things. Three survivors and three alone of that little group of cowmen who sat down under an oak tree and framed an organization to be mutually helpful to cattle raisers at Graham in 1877 were present at the 1926 convention. D.B. Gardner, still the active manager of the Pitchfork outfi t, came from Paducah. H.G. Bedford came from Midland and J.H. Graham came from Lovington, New Mexico, to the convention.”
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