OLIVE’S LAST ROUND-UP.
ADAMS: “RARE LITTLE BOOK”
N.p.[Loup City, Neb.]: [Sherman County Times], n.d.[ca. 1920’s]. Original gray stiff printed wrappers. Photographs. First edition. Fine copy. Adams, Six-Guns 1165: “This rare little book is the story of I. P. Olive and his lynching and burning of Luther Mitchell and Ami Ketchum. There is also some information on Doc Middleton.” Adams, Herd 1169: “Tells the high-handed way I. P. Olive tried to control the cattle business in his section of Nebraska.” Born in Louisiana and settling in Williamson County, Texas in the 1850s, I. P. Olive and his brothers moved to Custer County, Nebraska in the 1870s and established a large cattle ranching operation. Their feuds with alleged cattle rustlers in the area quickly became bloody affairs. This account is based on solid research and interviews with acquaintances and witnesses. Howes J90.