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wishes of the person named. Ordinarily the 

 name refers to some easily recognizable acci- 

 dent of origin, occupation, or aspect; as wit- 

 ness the innumerable Dutcheys, Frencheys, 

 Kentucks, Texas Jacks, Bronco Bills, Bear 

 Joes, Buckskins, Red Jims, and the like. 

 Sometimes it is apparently meaningless; one 

 of my cow-puncher friends is always called 

 "Sliver" or " Splinter" why, I have no idea. 

 At other times some particular incident may 

 give rise to the title: a clean-looking cowboy 

 formerly in my employ was always known as 

 "Muddy Bill," because he had once been 

 bucked off his horse into a mud hole. 



The grewsome genesis of one such name is 

 given in the following letter which I have 

 just received from an old hunting-friend in the 

 Rockies, who took a kindly interest in a fron- 

 tier cabin which the Boone and Crockett Club 

 was putting up at the Chicago World's Fair. 



"Feb 1 6th 1893; Der Sir: I see in the newspapers 

 that your club the Daniel Boon and Davey Crockit 

 you Intend to erect a fruntier Cabin at the world's 

 Far at Chicago to represent the erley Pianears of 

 our country I would like to see you maik a success 

 I have all my life been a fruntiersman and feel in- 

 terested in your undertaking and I hoap you wile 



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