Raymond then walked a quarter mile west to the sod house of Thomas C. Quite an unusual sight for a tenderfoot!” The man with his back to me as I entered wore a blouse and protruding below it were the barrels of two large revolvers. In entering there appeared a card-table with men around it and on the table were stacks of poker chips and piles of money indicating that the game had perhaps been going on all night. “It was just showing signs of the arrival of a new day,” he wrote years later, “and, seeing a light across the street-there was but one street open on one side-I wended my way to this light. Thus we know he arrived in Dodge City at 6:55 on the morning of November 16, 1872. Having purchased his little pocket diary in Sedgwick, Henry entered notes back to the day he left home in Carlinville and continued thereafter a daily account of his doings. Soule by saying “Go West, young man, and grow up with the country.” According to the Blakes, Henry first went to the Masterson place expecting to find his brother, but on learning he was in Dodge City left immediately, as the diary shows, for that new-born frontier village.
He later attributed his decision to move to Horace Greeley who elaborated on John B. Why Henry waited until November to join his brother is not known. Here he and the Masterson boys became friends and as such borrowed father Masterson’s team and wagon and took the grading job in the summer of 1872. The Masterson family moved to their new home on JTheodore arrived later. Apparently the land was to his liking for in 1871 he filed on a quarter section in Grant township, Sedgwick county, near the Masterson place. Masterson described his new Kansas homestead in glowing terms and Theodore decided to have a look himself. Theodore had met Thomas Masterson, the father, in St. Blake, Henry journeyed to Kansas to meet Theodore who, with Bat and Ed Masterson, had a grading subcontract for the Santa Fe railroad near Dodge City. Three brothers, Seth L., Theodore D., and Charles were older a sister, Harriet, died in childhood.Īccording to Mr. SNELL, head of the manuscript division of the Kansas State Historical Society, is coauthor of Why the West Was Wild (Topeka, 1963.) Henry Hubert Raymond was born near Carlinville, Ill., February 21, 1848, the son of Charles and Harriet (Nickerson) Raymond. In addition she sent many letters and notes which amplified the short entries. Blake kindly lent the original to the Society, where it was microfilmed. A search was made and the diary was located in the home of Raymond’s daughter, Mrs.
A comparison of the two revealed many discrepancies which could be resolved only by checking the original. In 1962 a second typed copy of the diary was received from Heinie Schmidt of Dodge City. Some entries were annotated in Raymond’s hand-spellings corrected and additional information included, for “I notice many mistakes,” he wrote. Lake, author of Wyatt Earp, Frontier Marshal, in 1929. Raymond had been typed by the secretary of Stuart N. Finally, it is an accurate description of a bygone occupation-buffalo hunting and skinning. It also is the only known source of early information on three of the West’s most renowned gun fighters, Bat, Ed, and Jim Masterson. His diary is an excellent record of the first year of Dodge City’s history. Raymond apologized for the poor quality of the entries and spelling, and added, “I trust you will be convinced it is N G.” Raymond of Dombey, Okla., a copy of a diary which he kept in 1827-1873 “in Dodge City & out on the surrounding plains which was then inhabited only by Indians, buffalo, antelops, wolves & other species of wild life. IN JULY, 1931, the Kansas State Historical Society received from Henry H.
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