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(NEW MEXICO.) Notes on a pair of interviews with early Cimarron lawman Fred Lambert. 10 items (0.2 linear feet) in one box; condition generally strong, tapes not examined. Vp, 1946-83
Charles Frederick "Fred" Lambert (1887-1971) spent most of his life in Cimarron, NM. His father Henry Lambert (1838-1913) was a French immigrant who in 1872 founded the fabled Wild West St. James Hotel in Cimarron. As a young man, Fred served as town marshal and as a deputy sheriff with the New Mexico Mounted Police, then served with the Indian Service in Santa Fé from 1913 to 1915. He was later a ranch manager and cattle inspector. Offered here are notes on two extensive interviews with Lambert: a 1946 interview by B.C. Grant recorded on 27 leaves of typescript and pencil notes, and a 1965 interview with Homer Hastings recorded on 2 reels of tape, transferred onto a cassette tape (neither examined), and summarized on one manuscript page. Also included are two photographs of Lambert, and other historical notes. The Grant interview recounts Lambert's father's Civil War-era career as a personal chef to Ulysses S. Grant and Abraham Lincoln, as well as numerous memories of gunfights and rustlers from the frontier period.
