Yes, he was my g-g-grandfather. I have a copy of his journal and he had an interesting life. His journal starts off when he was about 6 years old, around 1869 and goes thru to about the early to mid 1890's. The most notable story is when he was volunteered to go on a posse to capture Billy the Kidd. When he gives an account of the hunt and capture, you know that he was there, because others that wrote books gave a close account of it, but they make it sound as if they were the heros. Cal dosen't, in his journal he gives an account of being there and telling the truth whereas all there had something to do with the fight and capture. Other accounts of his time on cattle drives could make or match a movie or TV show with Rowdy Yates (Clint Eastwood in "Rawhide"), from Indians to cattle thevies to bad weather. As for "Peanut Polk" I don't know. Cal's boys were either in law enforcement or in some local government position, but in Holdenville, Hughes County, Oklahoma area.
Bill
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