31 by Lawrence Clayton: A Clear Fork Chronicle Book

	Foreword	2
	Introduction (A Scholar on Horseback: The Last Gathering)	6
1	Place as a Source of Focus: Confessions of a Regional Writer	14
2	The Family Saga	18
3	Hard Times at Griffin, As Recalled by J. C. Irwin, Jr.	30
4	A Gunslinger Confesses - and Finally Reveals the Fate of John G. Irwin after More Than 100 Years	48
5	The Tales	61
6	How Litt Perkins Treats Hides and Makes Leather Goods	64
7	Litt Perkins: Leather Worker, Storyteller, and Singer of Songs	74
8	Litt Perkins Talks about Snakes, Skunks, Cats, and Sheepherders; Or How To Spend a Pleasant Afternoon Learning to Make a Bosal	91
9	George Peacock, A Cowboy in the Folk Tradition	107
10	The Peacock Brothers	124
11	George Truett Self: Cowboy and Bronc Rider	133
12	Nig London, Throckmorton County Cowman	139
13	Cowboys Keep the Tradition of Branding Alive	145
14	Helicopter Cowboys	148
15	The Importance of Collecting Histories of Texas Ranches	154
16	The Brown Ranch: A Family-Run Operation in Throckmorton County	164
17	Chimney Creek Ranch: An Historical Account and Personal View of a Shackelford County Ranching Heritage	170
18	The Everett Brothers: Bound by Birth to the Ranching Tradition	189
19	The Reynolds Brothers and the Long X Ranch	195
20	J. R. Webb, Historian, Author, Archivist	218
21	"Buckskin" Bowden Recalls His Frontier Adventures with Bad Nell and Billy the Kid	220
22	The Return of Allison Dumas's Horse	224
23	Russell Young Gilbert, West Texas Frontiersman and Scout	227
24	The Death of Charley Rivers	234
25	Benjamin Franklin Reynolds, Texas Pioneer	238
26	The Saga of Stone Ranch	243
27	Watkins Reynolds Matthews: Rancher and Historical Preservationist	250
28	The Ice Man Comes to Ft. Griffin: An Oral History from the 1930s	255
29	The Fort Griffin Fandangle	261
30	A Brief Guide to Some Historic Sites Important to the Clear Fork of the Brazos River Culture	276
31	My Last Christmas????	284
	Biographical Sketch of the Author	286
App	Books by Lawrence Clayton	287
	Index	290