Henry Clark's first cattle drive

 As we all know, young Henry Clark, who was 17, decided to stay in Dallas when his dad, mom, and the rest of the family moved up to Missouri.  In 1869 he made his first cattle drive up to Baxter Springs, Kansas via the Shawnee (Sedalia) Trail.  Henry Clay Clark related his own story of the cattle drives to the Dallas Morning News on June 10, 1923.  I recently came across a second account of his first cattle drive where he was accompanied by his cousin, John S. Myers.  The story was related by John Myers' son to the Dallas Morning News in 1955.  It included some interesting details I had not heard before.   I don't know if Aunt Charlyne had seen this or not, but it was not listed in the bibliography of her little blue book.  The account below was reprinted in Elm Fork Echoes V22 in 1994.