Dan Jones' White Shirt

Sometime in 1878 Dan W. Jones, who ran the Red Fork Ranch on the Chisholm Trail in Indian Territory, went after some horse thieves. A friend of Jones, trail driver R.T. Greer, remembered the event some years later.
+ The way Greer told it, while Greer was on a drive that passed by the Red Fork, he met with Jones at Jones' ranch and caught up on the latest news. The next morning, Greer continued on his drive down the Chisholm Trail.
+ Later that afternoon Greer noticed a cloud of dust behind him. Then 35 horses driven by two men packing Winchesters passed around him in a hurry. After they were out of sight, Greer saw another cloud of dust. In the distance he spotted a white-shirted horseman.
+ "I said to Davie (a partner), that must be Dan Jones as he is the only man in this country who wears a white shirt, and sure enough it was Jones. He (Jones) said 'those fellows who went by were horse thieves' ."
+ Jones wanted Greer to help him catch the thieves but Greer said he had troubles enough of his own. Then Jones asked for a weapon. Greer loaned Jones a six-shooter. Jones then went to another ranch and got a cowboy to go with him. He gave the cowboy the six-shooter, and headed over a hill as Greer watched.
+ An hour later Greer met Jones returning. Jones had the 35 horses and all the thieves' gear. Greer asked what happened.
+ As Jones explained it, the thieves had stopped to camp at a fork in the trail by two creeks. The thieves had corralled the horses but had not yet unsaddled their own.
+ Jones took advantage of the situation. He "stood up in his stirrups, took his hat off and waved it, then yelled, 'Come on boys, we got em.'
+ The two thieves jumped in the creek and waded to the other side for cover. They watched as Jones and the cowboy took the horses and all of the thieves' gear and headed back down the trail.

R.T. Greer to Hubert Collins, June 26, 1929, Oklahoma Historical Society.