Ridiculous "Cowboy History"!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chase_Ranch

The following paragraph, quote, comes from the Wikipedia link listed above.

"Chase Ranch Cimarron, New Mexico was founded in 1867 by Manly and Theresa Chase. As pioneers, from Wisconsin by way of Colorado, they crossed the Raton Pass in a covered wagon and establish a new home in New Mexico. Manly Chase purchased the land from Lucien Maxwell, part of the Maxwell Land Grant. The ranch is near the Ponil Creek, a mile north of the Cimarron River, not far from the Santa Fe Trail. The Ranch included the old Kit Carson homestead. Before pioneers the land near by was populated by Apaches and Ute people. Manly helped make the local Native Americans good neighbors, he provided them with beef."

Mountain Lion

This next quote comes from  pages 152, 153 and 154 of the book titled "The Chases of Cimarron" written by Ruth W. Armstrong and published by New Mexico Stockman, P.O. Box 7127 in Albuquerque, New Mexico and printed by Adobe Press in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1981. The emphasis in parentheses are mine.

"Suddenly as she (Theresa Chase) walked under a cottonwood tree a brindle-furred animal leaped on her. ( Mountain Lions are not brindle furred) With reflexes born of a lifetime of self preservation in the wilderness, (she was from Wisconsin) she turned to meet her assailant, raising her arms to defend herself. It was a wildcat, (Mountain Lion or a Bobcat) long and lean. Her hands closed around its throat. choking with a strength no one would have thought possible in this small, middle aged woman. The beast clawed and scratched viciously, ripping time and again through the flesh of her arms and face. She never relaxed her grip on his neck until he went limp, a heavy weight in her out stretched arms.  She dropped to the ground, still clutching the cats neck. Holding it to the ground with one hand, she picked up a stone with the other, and beat its head until there was no doubt it was dead. She rolled away from the cat, groaned and lost consciousness."

Bob Cat

"When she roused,  saw the bloody animal and her own bloody, torn clothing, a shudder rippled through her, but she got to her hands and knees, took hold of the wildcat by the tail. (Bobcats do not have tails) and began stumbling towards home. It wasn't far, but the last hundred yards seemed like an eternity. She was dizzy and weak, and was beginning to hurt, but she went on. There were a dozen men working in the fields and orchard, around the barn and corrals, but no one saw her, and she could not call out, Finally she got almost to the back door and fainted."

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Needless to say the heroine survived and prospered. That my friends is the stuff of a great story, but hardly credible "history".  But this is what some would have us believe as they build written monuments to their loved ones and themselves. This is what passes as history for some around here. From one generation of "heroic pioneers" to their offspring. And we are expected to believe it!