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Notes Prologue 1. The correspondence between Maria von Blücher and Margaret Maltby is filed with the Maltby Family Papers at the Local History Room, La Retama Central Library, Corpus Christi, Texas. Chapter 1. The Reunion 1. Civil War military service records of Jasper A. and William H. Maltby, Film No. M539, roll 55, and Film No. M227, roll 22, respectively, National Archives (hereafter cited as NA). 2. All eight of William’s Vicksburg passes are filed with the Maltby Family Papers, La Retama Central Library, Corpus Christi, Texas. They are dated Dec. 11 and 23, 1863, and Jan. 3, Mar. 1, Apr. 1, May 5, June 2, and July 5, 1864. 3. Galena Daily Advertiser, July 25, 1861; US Army Register of Enlistment, vols. 46–47, Jasper A. Maltby, Apr. 21, 1847, Film No. M539, roll 55, p. 175, entry 133, NA. 4. Adjutant General Jones to Secretary of War C. M. Conrad, Feb. 4, 1854, Bounty Land Warrant Applications, BLWT-77664-160-47, RG15, NA. 5. Jasper Maltby to “the Hon the Senate and House of Representatives of the U.S. in Congress assembled,” Jan. 28, 1850, ibid. 6. Ibid. 7. Ibid. 8. 32nd Cong., 1st sess., Report No. 274, ibid. 9. David Maltby to Hon. Commissioner of Pensions, Mar. 12, 1853, Bounty Land Warrant Applications, NA. 10. Four Maltby guns are on exhibit at the Galena and U. S. Grant Museum, Galena, Illinois. 11. John Ratcliffe Chapman, Instructions to Young Marksmen, in All That Relates to the General Construction, Practical Manipulation, Causes and Liability to Error in Making Accurate Rifle Performances, and the Theoretic Principles upon Which Such Accurate Performances Are Founded, as Exhibited in the Improved American Rifle (New York: D. Appleton & Son, 1848). 12. Warren [Illinois] Independent, June 3, 1859. 13. Galena Daily Advertiser, Aug. 17, 1855. 14. Ibid., May 28, 30, 1859. 15. Maltby family genealogy, vertical file, La Retama Central Library. Chapter 2. Maltby’s Circus 1. Mrs. Frank deGarmo, Pathfinders of Texas, 1836–1846, 134; “Dorothy’s Maltby Manuscript,” http://maltby-genealogy.tripod.com/pg423.htm; Brownsville Herald, May 18, 1906. 2. Daily Ranchero (Brownsville), Sept. 27, 1867. 3. A. A. Champion, Mary Champion Henggler, Consuela Champion, and Vivian Kearney, “Papers and Personalities in Frontier Journalism, 1830 to 1890s,” in More Studies in Brownsville History, ed. Milo Kearney, 117. 4. Stuart L. Thayer, Oct. 27, 2005, Circus History Message and Discussion Board, Circus Historical Society, www.circushistory.org/Query.htm. 5. Dave Carlyon, Dan Rice: The Most Famous Man You’ve Never Heard Of, 159.  notes to pages 1- 6. Texas State Gazette, Dec. 11, 1851; Dee Woods, “The King of the Wild Horse Desert,” Best of the West, 1973. 7. Woods, “King of the Wild Horse Desert.” 8. Texas State Gazette, Nov. 22, 1851. 9. Handbill, copy of original in Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. 10. Texas State Gazette, Nov. 22, 1851. 11. New Orleans Daily Picayune, Sept. 18, 1852. 12. Maria von Blücher to “Cordially loved Parents,” May 1, 1852, in Bruce S. Cheeseman, ed., Maria von Blücher’s Corpus Christi, 71 (hereafter cited as Maria von Blücher letters). 13. Hortense Warner Ward, “The First State Fair of Texas,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 57, no. 2 (Oct. 1955), 163–74; New Orleans Daily Delta, May 22, 1852. 14. Maria von Blücher letters, 72. 15. Dix File, Individual collections, DeGarmo Papers, Pathfinders, La Retama Central Library, Corpus Christi. 16. Richard B. McCaslin, Fighting Stock; John S. “Rip” Ford of Texas, 44, 45. 17. Joe B. Frantz, Gail Borden, Dairyman to a Nation, 211; Nueces Valley, May 20, 1852. 18. Maria von Blücher letters, 71. One of Kinney’s prizes, a silver loving cup, can be seen at the Corpus Christi Museum of Science and History. 19. Mary A. Sutherland, The Story of Corpus Christi, 78. 20. Nueces County court records, vol. G, 362–64, La Retama Central Library. 21. Ibid. 22. Ibid. 23. William Seaton Henry, Campaign Sketches of the War with Mexico. 24. J. W. Wilbarger, Indian Depredations in Texas, 69, 71. 25. Hortense Warner Ward, “Physical Courage, Moral Cowardice Found in Kinney,” Corpus Christi Caller-Times, Jan. 18, 1959. 26. Boston Daily Advertiser, Apr. 25, 1855. 27. Texas State Gazette, Sept. 8, 1855. 28. Nueces County Deed Records, vol. E, 1852–54, and vol. F, 1853–57, La Retama Central Library. 29. deGarmo, Pathfinders, 195. 30. Nueces County Deed Records. 31. Gen. Thomas Sidney Jessup to Col. H. L. Kinney, Nov. 14, 1849. Maltby...

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