Talk:Charles Francis Colcord

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Here are some parts I didn't understand and may need some help refining:

• What's a "cow puncher" -- Is there an alternative term for this?
• I find no article about the "Abilene Trail" -- Is this the same as the Chisholm Trail?
• What is "Jug brand"? Of what?

I need some help to clarify the following words/phrases (alternative terms/wordings would make the article better IMO):

• "lawman"

Regarding the Colcord Building (or Colcord Hotel as it's now known, I believe), should a separate article be written, or should it be incorporated into this article? Ray Colcord has many photos of the building, but I don't know if there's enough material to create another article out of. Opinion?

--Tim Morgan 03:20, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

• "Cowpuncher" is of course synonymous with cowboy. "Cowpuncher" was especially popular with those old cowboys who worked in the old Cherokee Strip since they were entitled to join the Cherokee Strip Cowpunchers Association after it was organized in 1920.
• The Abilene Trail was one of the several minor cattle trails running from the old Indian territory (especially the Cherokee Strip) into Kansas. You can find it shown on maps of the old territory.
• The "Jug brand" was C.F. Colcord's brand for livestock on his ranch in the Cherokee Outlet and also near Medicine Lodge, Kansas. It was registered with the Cherokee Strip Livestock Association. He may have kept it when he settled in Oklahoma after the run.
• "Lawmen" were (and still are) peace officers charged with enforcing laws.
• The Doolin-Dalton gang was the gang after the Dalton's broke away. Only one of the Dalton's remained with Doolin. The gang's name in the popular press of the era was the "Wild Bunch"—the original "Wild Bunch" not the latter-day "Wild Bunch" of Butch Cassiday.

If I were writing about the Colcord Building, I would write a separate article. The building is remarkable in its own right and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Hope some of this helps. Frank101 05:31, 10 November 2005 (UTC)

• A little more on the "Jug brand" from Colcord's autobiography, page 55: "On the chase he [Colcord's father] bounced his little brown jug out from under the seat of the buckboard and lost it. This jug had a half gallon of Kentucky whiskey in it, so all the cowpunchers in that neighborhood hunted it for three days and finally found it in the east side of some timber on the head of Red Fork. To this day that timber bears the name, 'Jug Motte'. This incident also gave us a good idea; a few day later Father went into Medicine Lodge and had the 'Jug' brand made and later the Jug Cattle Company herd was branded out with it. From that time on our brand was a little brown jug on the left hip." Frank101 06:18, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
• Also, a clarification on what Colcord refers to as the "Abilene Trail" from page 53 of his autobiography: "Fort Sill was off the main interstate cattle trail, then as afterward, known as the Abilene Trail and quite commonly called the Chisholm Trail." Frank101 07:58, 10 November 2005 (UTC)