Date of birth on death certificate is incorrect. Branch's second marriage was in April 1920 to widow "Nettie Smith Hicks" (Nettie's death certificate says otherwise).
Historical Southern Families by John Bennett Boddie, vol. 3 (1959), p.179.
University of Virginia catalogue (1868), p.12: Bolling Branch Isbell (res., Gainesville, Ala.) studied Latin, Modern Languages & Mathematics in 1867-68
Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 (2010) by Jacqueline M. Moore, p. 52: "Branch Isbell's desire to be a cowboy came when he was twelve, and he briefly followed a group of Confederate soldiers who had driven a herd across his family plantation in Alabama singing cowboy songs."
Publications of the Texas Folk-lore Society (1925), p.104: EPISODES AT RANCH COMMUNITY DANCES IN TEXAS FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO BY BRANCH ISBELL: "As I grew up in Sumter County, Alabama, I participated in various dancing parties before emigrating to Texas to become a cowboy."
The Trail Drivers of Texas (1925) by J. Marvin Hunter, v.2, pp.571-584: Days That Were Full of Thrills by Branch Isbell: "My desire to become a cowboy had its inception on the old plantation in Sumter county, Alabama, when I was born November 5, 1851. During the fall of 1863 a squad of Confederate soldiers..."
Cattle Trails: Git Along Little Dogies (1997) by Kathy Pelta, p.13: "In Alabama during the Civil War, when Branch Isbell was eleven, Confederate soldiers herded 300 Texas steers into his mother's cornfield to pasture overnight. When they left the next morning, Branch persuaded his mom to let him ride with them…."
Page 85: Afterward the trail hands were so tired that the tenderfoot of the outfit lay down….
The Journal of American Folk-Lore (1927), p.95: Episodes at Ranch Community Dances by Branch Isbell.
The Long Trail (1976) by Gardner Soule, pp. 138,153, 274: "Cowboy Branch Isbell had been the twelve-year-old who, in Alabama, had admired Confederate cattle drivers and wanted to be like them. At twenty, he had ..." etc
Nebraska History (1981) vol. 62, p.588: "Famous cattlemen John Chisum, Oliver Loving, and Charles Goodnight lead a series of stories about D. H. Snyder, Terrel Jackson, Samuel Maverick, Branch Isbell, and others."
Bad Company and Burnt Powder: Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest (2014) by Bob Alexander, pp. 333, 396, 448
Big, Hot, Cheap and Right (2013) by Erica Grieder, p.128
Cattle (1930) by Wm M. Raine, Will C. Barnes, p. 29.
The Cattleman (1950), vol. 37, p.44
The Chisholm Trail by Wayne Gard, p. 230
Cow People by J. Frank Dobie, pp. 246-297
Cowboy Culture (1989) by David Dary, pp 128-29, 296-97, 349, 356
Heritage of Kansas (1978), vol.11-12, p6: Branch Isbell is not only a professional cowboy, he is obviously a raconteur who analyzes many of his experiences with psychological insight. After Kansas was becoming settled and plowed, Isbell rode away from the trail north of Great Bend.
Sidesaddles and Sunbonnets: Women on the Western Frontier (2017) by Paula Haas
The Trampling Herd (1951) by Paul Iselin Wellman, pp. 68, 334: Branch Isbell did not usually carry a firearm.
West Texas Association Year Book (1941), p.37: In 1877, Branch Isbell drove a herd of heifers belonging to a Mr. Byler from Nueces County, in South Texas, to the head of Pecan Bayou, in Callahan County. There Isbell threw in with a herd of stock cattle which George W. Waddell had driven.
Historical Southern Families by John Bennett Boddie, vol. 3 (1959), p.179.
University of Virginia catalogue (1868), p.12: Bolling Branch Isbell (res., Gainesville, Ala.) studied Latin, Modern Languages & Mathematics in 1867-68
Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 (2010) by Jacqueline M. Moore, p. 52: "Branch Isbell's desire to be a cowboy came when he was twelve, and he briefly followed a group of Confederate soldiers who had driven a herd across his family plantation in Alabama singing cowboy songs."
Publications of the Texas Folk-lore Society (1925), p.104: EPISODES AT RANCH COMMUNITY DANCES IN TEXAS FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO BY BRANCH ISBELL: "As I grew up in Sumter County, Alabama, I participated in various dancing parties before emigrating to Texas to become a cowboy."
The Trail Drivers of Texas (1925) by J. Marvin Hunter, v.2, pp.571-584: Days That Were Full of Thrills by Branch Isbell: "My desire to become a cowboy had its inception on the old plantation in Sumter county, Alabama, when I was born November 5, 1851. During the fall of 1863 a squad of Confederate soldiers..."
Cattle Trails: Git Along Little Dogies (1997) by Kathy Pelta, p.13: "In Alabama during the Civil War, when Branch Isbell was eleven, Confederate soldiers herded 300 Texas steers into his mother's cornfield to pasture overnight. When they left the next morning, Branch persuaded his mom to let him ride with them…."
Page 85: Afterward the trail hands were so tired that the tenderfoot of the outfit lay down….
The Journal of American Folk-Lore (1927), p.95: Episodes at Ranch Community Dances by Branch Isbell.
The Long Trail (1976) by Gardner Soule, pp. 138,153, 274: "Cowboy Branch Isbell had been the twelve-year-old who, in Alabama, had admired Confederate cattle drivers and wanted to be like them. At twenty, he had ..." etc
Nebraska History (1981) vol. 62, p.588: "Famous cattlemen John Chisum, Oliver Loving, and Charles Goodnight lead a series of stories about D. H. Snyder, Terrel Jackson, Samuel Maverick, Branch Isbell, and others."
Bad Company and Burnt Powder: Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest (2014) by Bob Alexander, pp. 333, 396, 448
Big, Hot, Cheap and Right (2013) by Erica Grieder, p.128
Cattle (1930) by Wm M. Raine, Will C. Barnes, p. 29.
The Cattleman (1950), vol. 37, p.44
The Chisholm Trail by Wayne Gard, p. 230
Cow People by J. Frank Dobie, pp. 246-297
Cowboy Culture (1989) by David Dary, pp 128-29, 296-97, 349, 356
Heritage of Kansas (1978), vol.11-12, p6: Branch Isbell is not only a professional cowboy, he is obviously a raconteur who analyzes many of his experiences with psychological insight. After Kansas was becoming settled and plowed, Isbell rode away from the trail north of Great Bend.
Sidesaddles and Sunbonnets: Women on the Western Frontier (2017) by Paula Haas
The Trampling Herd (1951) by Paul Iselin Wellman, pp. 68, 334: Branch Isbell did not usually carry a firearm.
West Texas Association Year Book (1941), p.37: In 1877, Branch Isbell drove a herd of heifers belonging to a Mr. Byler from Nueces County, in South Texas, to the head of Pecan Bayou, in Callahan County. There Isbell threw in with a herd of stock cattle which George W. Waddell had driven.
Date of birth on death certificate is incorrect. Branch's second marriage was in April 1920 to widow "Nettie Smith Hicks" (Nettie's death certificate says otherwise).
Historical Southern Families by John Bennett Boddie, vol. 3 (1959), p.179.
University of Virginia catalogue (1868), p.12: Bolling Branch Isbell (res., Gainesville, Ala.) studied Latin, Modern Languages & Mathematics in 1867-68
Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 (2010) by Jacqueline M. Moore, p. 52: "Branch Isbell's desire to be a cowboy came when he was twelve, and he briefly followed a group of Confederate soldiers who had driven a herd across his family plantation in Alabama singing cowboy songs."
Publications of the Texas Folk-lore Society (1925), p.104: EPISODES AT RANCH COMMUNITY DANCES IN TEXAS FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO BY BRANCH ISBELL: "As I grew up in Sumter County, Alabama, I participated in various dancing parties before emigrating to Texas to become a cowboy."
The Trail Drivers of Texas (1925) by J. Marvin Hunter, v.2, pp.571-584: Days That Were Full of Thrills by Branch Isbell: "My desire to become a cowboy had its inception on the old plantation in Sumter county, Alabama, when I was born November 5, 1851. During the fall of 1863 a squad of Confederate soldiers..."
Cattle Trails: Git Along Little Dogies (1997) by Kathy Pelta, p.13: "In Alabama during the Civil War, when Branch Isbell was eleven, Confederate soldiers herded 300 Texas steers into his mother's cornfield to pasture overnight. When they left the next morning, Branch persuaded his mom to let him ride with them…."
Page 85: Afterward the trail hands were so tired that the tenderfoot of the outfit lay down….
The Journal of American Folk-Lore (1927), p.95: Episodes at Ranch Community Dances by Branch Isbell.
The Long Trail (1976) by Gardner Soule, pp. 138,153, 274: "Cowboy Branch Isbell had been the twelve-year-old who, in Alabama, had admired Confederate cattle drivers and wanted to be like them. At twenty, he had ..." etc
Nebraska History (1981) vol. 62, p.588: "Famous cattlemen John Chisum, Oliver Loving, and Charles Goodnight lead a series of stories about D. H. Snyder, Terrel Jackson, Samuel Maverick, Branch Isbell, and others."
Bad Company and Burnt Powder: Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest (2014) by Bob Alexander, pp. 333, 396, 448
Big, Hot, Cheap and Right (2013) by Erica Grieder, p.128
Cattle (1930) by Wm M. Raine, Will C. Barnes, p. 29.
The Cattleman (1950), vol. 37, p.44
The Chisholm Trail by Wayne Gard, p. 230
Cow People by J. Frank Dobie, pp. 246-297
Cowboy Culture (1989) by David Dary, pp 128-29, 296-97, 349, 356
Heritage of Kansas (1978), vol.11-12, p6: Branch Isbell is not only a professional cowboy, he is obviously a raconteur who analyzes many of his experiences with psychological insight. After Kansas was becoming settled and plowed, Isbell rode away from the trail north of Great Bend.
Sidesaddles and Sunbonnets: Women on the Western Frontier (2017) by Paula Haas
The Trampling Herd (1951) by Paul Iselin Wellman, pp. 68, 334: Branch Isbell did not usually carry a firearm.
West Texas Association Year Book (1941), p.37: In 1877, Branch Isbell drove a herd of heifers belonging to a Mr. Byler from Nueces County, in South Texas, to the head of Pecan Bayou, in Callahan County. There Isbell threw in with a herd of stock cattle which George W. Waddell had driven.
Historical Southern Families by John Bennett Boddie, vol. 3 (1959), p.179.
University of Virginia catalogue (1868), p.12: Bolling Branch Isbell (res., Gainesville, Ala.) studied Latin, Modern Languages & Mathematics in 1867-68
Cow Boys and Cattle Men: Class and Masculinities on the Texas Frontier, 1865-1900 (2010) by Jacqueline M. Moore, p. 52: "Branch Isbell's desire to be a cowboy came when he was twelve, and he briefly followed a group of Confederate soldiers who had driven a herd across his family plantation in Alabama singing cowboy songs."
Publications of the Texas Folk-lore Society (1925), p.104: EPISODES AT RANCH COMMUNITY DANCES IN TEXAS FIFTY-FIVE YEARS AGO BY BRANCH ISBELL: "As I grew up in Sumter County, Alabama, I participated in various dancing parties before emigrating to Texas to become a cowboy."
The Trail Drivers of Texas (1925) by J. Marvin Hunter, v.2, pp.571-584: Days That Were Full of Thrills by Branch Isbell: "My desire to become a cowboy had its inception on the old plantation in Sumter county, Alabama, when I was born November 5, 1851. During the fall of 1863 a squad of Confederate soldiers..."
Cattle Trails: Git Along Little Dogies (1997) by Kathy Pelta, p.13: "In Alabama during the Civil War, when Branch Isbell was eleven, Confederate soldiers herded 300 Texas steers into his mother's cornfield to pasture overnight. When they left the next morning, Branch persuaded his mom to let him ride with them…."
Page 85: Afterward the trail hands were so tired that the tenderfoot of the outfit lay down….
The Journal of American Folk-Lore (1927), p.95: Episodes at Ranch Community Dances by Branch Isbell.
The Long Trail (1976) by Gardner Soule, pp. 138,153, 274: "Cowboy Branch Isbell had been the twelve-year-old who, in Alabama, had admired Confederate cattle drivers and wanted to be like them. At twenty, he had ..." etc
Nebraska History (1981) vol. 62, p.588: "Famous cattlemen John Chisum, Oliver Loving, and Charles Goodnight lead a series of stories about D. H. Snyder, Terrel Jackson, Samuel Maverick, Branch Isbell, and others."
Bad Company and Burnt Powder: Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest (2014) by Bob Alexander, pp. 333, 396, 448
Big, Hot, Cheap and Right (2013) by Erica Grieder, p.128
Cattle (1930) by Wm M. Raine, Will C. Barnes, p. 29.
The Cattleman (1950), vol. 37, p.44
The Chisholm Trail by Wayne Gard, p. 230
Cow People by J. Frank Dobie, pp. 246-297
Cowboy Culture (1989) by David Dary, pp 128-29, 296-97, 349, 356
Heritage of Kansas (1978), vol.11-12, p6: Branch Isbell is not only a professional cowboy, he is obviously a raconteur who analyzes many of his experiences with psychological insight. After Kansas was becoming settled and plowed, Isbell rode away from the trail north of Great Bend.
Sidesaddles and Sunbonnets: Women on the Western Frontier (2017) by Paula Haas
The Trampling Herd (1951) by Paul Iselin Wellman, pp. 68, 334: Branch Isbell did not usually carry a firearm.
West Texas Association Year Book (1941), p.37: In 1877, Branch Isbell drove a herd of heifers belonging to a Mr. Byler from Nueces County, in South Texas, to the head of Pecan Bayou, in Callahan County. There Isbell threw in with a herd of stock cattle which George W. Waddell had driven.
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