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Name: JONES, Charles Jesse 'Buffalo' (Col.)
Birth Date: 31 Jan 1844 Tazewell, Illinois
Death Date: 1 Oct 1919 Topeka, Kansas
First Date: 1912
Profession: Texan ex-cowboy and over 60, tough as teak, arrived in Kenya in 1912 with 2 cow punchers - Means & Loveless - & 20 well-schooled cow-ponies. No guns.
Married: In Doniphan, Texas 20 Jan 1869 Martha J. Walton b. 1845 Indiana, d. 27 Oct 1907 Topeka
Children: William Grant (9 June 1870 Troy, Kansas-1882); Charles Edward (1877 Troy-1887; Olive Walton (Whitmer) (10 Aug 1882 Garden City, Kansas-1961); Jessie G. (Phillips) (1884 Nebraska-1957)
Book Reference: Nature, Kill, Binks, Rundgren, Chandler, Wikipedia
School: Illinois Wesleyan University
General Information:
Nature - Lassoed everything in sight, zebra, wildebeest, antelope, even buffalo. But a rhino was a different matter. Nearly knocked over Cherry Kearton who had been hired to film them. At last they subdued the rhino and after a 5 hour tussle tied him to a strong tree. Jones branded him with a hot iron. This was too much for the rhino. He broke away during the night and, ropes and all, vanished and was never seen again.
Kill - party of cowboys to lasso dangerous game, which proved a really unique and remarkable adventure.
Binks - calls him 'Tarpon' Dick - .... cowboys, mounted on imported prairie horses ..... what they lacked in stability of foot they made up for when they did a dash ride through the town, and, with perfect timing and smoothness, lassoed Sir Northrup Macmillan as he sat in his rickshaw admiring the show.
Rundgren - Came to Kenya with 2 cowboys and lassoed a lioness with an escort of crack shots.
Chandler - 'Buffalo' Jones was an American stage cowboy billed as "The Last of the Plainsmen". He started his career as a bona fide buffalo hunter. In the 1870s he was based in Dodge City and made his living hunting the animals for their hides. Sometime around 1880 he settled down to open a ranch at Garden City, Kansas. ……………. In 1910 he led a team of two expert cowboys (Ambrose Mearns and a man named Loveless), photographer Cherry Kearton, journalist Guy Scull, and Arusha white hunters Ray Ulyate and his son to East Africa in an effort to demonstrate that African animals could be captured harmlessly with a rope. …….. The expedition was a roaring success. …….