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3 " - 8 -, :30UGBAN, JAMES H. INTERVIEW Form 'A-(S-149) BIOGRAPHY FORM " 450 Wd:QCS PitOGHESS ADMINISTRATION 8872 Indian-Pioneer History Project for Oklahoma Field Workor»3 name Mson J. Chase This.report made on (dato October 12 " Name James H* Bcughn 2. Post Office Address ivood-ard, Oklahoma 3. Residence addrcrc (or location) 1902 South 5th 3t. 4. DATE OF BIRTH: Month October \ Day\g / Year Place of birth Amnerst Court Hflusa. Virginia, 6. Namo of Father Junes H. Bough an Place of pirth Other information at out father Captain in Confejlerace Army, 7. Name of Mother Plioe/ of birth, Other information about mother Kotos or complete narrative "by the Held \sorkcr dcsflinjr tfith the l\lf2 and story of the i-erson intcrvjjev/od. Ro^-.r to Manual ifor saj,;ci;tod subjocts acd questions. Continue on blank sheets if necessary and attach firmly to this form. Number of sh:et? attic hod

4 , JAMES H. XMBRVXRW Am Interriew with Mr. James H. Boughan, woodward* By - Al*oa J. Chase, Zajeatlgator* Ootober 12, 1937* At the tine of the opening of the Cherokee Strip - Z decided I would maka the ran, ao I oana on the train to Arkaasas City, Kansas, and there 1 bought a horse and aaddla and atarted out on horsebaok. I made the run imto the Cherokee Strip from the Kansas line Just south of Arkansas city* I paid twenty dollara for^.tbe^horse and- forty, for ay-saddle but my horse gare out, so I got off a&d staked him out and gare him a drink of whiskey to revive him as there was ao water anywhere to be found* Just as I got this done a prairie fire broke out* Z waa la a sandy place with big aluaps of grass so 1 wrapped myself in my blankets and lay flat on the ground aad let the fire go by; ia. this^way X was eafe, and the horse was oaly slightly scorched. Lota of deer, antelope, coyotes, quail and prairie Lekeas were running away from the fire* * This lection waa rery poop farmiag land aad X did

5 BOOOEAH, JiJCS H. IKTKRVIIW )v lot want to stake there* Whan ay horte was sufficiently rested I rode back to Arkansas City and sold the horse and saddle for only half at men as I paid for than and boarded the train for AlTa and landad there on the 18th day of September, 1893* I thea vent to work for the Waters-Pierce Oil Coapaay. X vat their agent and put up oil tanks and oil ttationt at a number of tov&a and told kerotene aad gatoliia«. - I vat then, and a* still known all oter this part of Oklahoma at "Coal Oil Johnny" I later filed on a farm olose to AlTa, prored it up aid aade it my hoae for sereral years, but later sold it* Jx 1894 am independent bateball club vat or* gamised at Alra, and vat known at the AlTa olantt and vat recognized as one of the beet ball clubs eytr organised in this part of Oklahoma. I vat catcher of this teas.

6 BoaoaiH, znsrvxsw* Z oontimiad working Oo«pa«y for ratttoa yaara for ill* Wat«rs*»Pl*ret Oil tliay t e* gold out and I Woodvbrd aid 7 Chltf o on duty one body tut CM still Urlmg ik Woodward. for a nuabtr of yiara at Polio«of the town.of food day through tha