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Caddo Co. OK - Newspaper
El Reno Herald
Submitted By Sandy Miller
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MINCO, CHICKASAW NATION I.T.
Friday 26 Jan 1894


AN OLD TIMER


W.G. Williams was up today from the south Indian country, consulting his 
attorney, W.H. Criley, on business matters. He is one of the prominent 
stockman of the lower country, he has a fine stock ranch on the Washita river, 
ten miles below Anadarko. "Bill" as he is everywhere known, is now 54 years 
of age, and has been 33 years with the Caddo Indians. He left Kentucky in 
1859 and went to Texas on foot. Here he worked on a ranch at $15 per month 
for awhile, and afterward gathered stray cattle in the Wichita Mountains 
among the hostile Indians, where no white man would go and received a 
consideration of one third of the cattle he recovered. In this way he made 
his first "stake". 

During the war he was contractor to furnish beef to the Osage, Caddo and 
Comanche Indians, and at the close of the war received $18,000 in Confederate 
currency, which being worthless caused his bankruptcy. He soon recovered from 
his discouragement, however, and soon began to accumulate, and he now has on 
his ranch 2,500 cattle, 350 horses, and 300 hogs. His horses are extra fine 
American blooded horses, the result of thirteen years of careful breeding, 
and the half-moon brand if horses are in demand wherever known, Williams has 
2,000 acres of land under fence and in cultivation, and has besides a pasture 
one mile square, fenced with wire. 

As a result of his prosperity, a large elegant frame residence is completed 
at the ranch, which cost $3,000. Williams is married to a Caddo woman and 
has eight children. During all the time he has been among the Indians he has 
only been in one Indian fight.
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