Osage county

Osage County
Oil on board
16" h x 20" w

Judged by contemporary standards, I have a long history in Osage County.  As a young attorney fresh out of law school, I rode in the back of a Cadillac automobile, leaving tulsa early in the morning on a friday, accompanying the ranch foreman and the trustee (my boss)of the Chapman Barnard McFarland interests into the Osage; bouncing over the open range to settle surface damages for well sites, watching cattle inoculated and branded in the open pens and chutes, and eating beans and cornbread with the cowboys in the bunkhouse at the ranch headquarters.  In those times there were no road signs identifying the county roads.  There were no buffalo.  Up near the creek large, impressive red stones lay on top of the ground.  Here, my recollection.