tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929374.post112948545625486641..comments2023-11-03T03:49:46.528-05:00Comments on Trixie's Home: Tagged to Meme (and Born to Be Wild)Trixiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04405956286050242058noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7929374.post-1129503735523192292005-10-16T18:02:00.000-05:002005-10-16T18:02:00.000-05:00"The cattlemen would have liked longer leases and ..."The cattlemen would have liked longer leases and early in 1894 attempted to achieve this by working through Colonel J.D. Cobb of Georgia, who just happened to be a cousin of Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith. Samuel B. Burnett and others signed contracts with Colonel Cobb to pay him one cent an acre if he could get their six-cent-an-acre contracts renegotiated for three-year terms. Apparently, the colonel could not produce, but for obvious reasons the cattlemen were prepared to go to some lengths to be spared the inconvenience of negotiating annual contracts."<BR/><BR/>-- From William Tt. Hagan, "United States-Comanche Relations: The Reservation Years" (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976), 239.<BR/><BR/>:-)<BR/><BR/>--ERErudite Redneckhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04830721195868387265noreply@blogger.com