HUNTING COUSIN SALLY.

Austin, 1963. First Separate Edition. FINE. A Christmas Remembrance reprinted from Southwest Review. 14pp., 4to blue pictorial wraps drawn by William D. Wittliff

McVicker - D84 Sloan - DRD 565. Information about cattleman Ike Pryor (1852-1937) including his life story as related to JFD.Orphaned at age five, he lived with relatives in Alabama and Tennessee until age nine, when he ran away and attached himself as newsboy to the Third Ohio Cavalry, Army of the Cumberland. In 1870 at eighteen years old he decided to pursue greater opportunities with his brother in Texas. Pryor arrived at Galveston by way of New Orleans and began trailing cattle to Kansas. Later he bought 100,000 acres of Zavala County ranchland for $1.40 an acre, stocked it with 10,000 cattle, and named it the 77 Ranch. In 1908 he founded the nearby town of La Pryor. Pryor was director (1887–90) and president (1906–08) of the Cattle Raisers Association of Texas, president of the Texas Livestock Association in 1907, and president of the Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress at Denver in 1908. He also presided over the National Livestock Shippers' Protective League in 1915 and the American National Livestock Association in 1917–19. In 1909 he organized and accepted the presidency of City National Bank of San Antonio. Pryor died in San Antonio on September 24, 1937.