Patent for "invention...to provide a simple, practical and inexpensive device adapted to be readily applied to motorcycles and bicycles and capable of absorbing the shocks and jars and increasing the life of a bicycle or motorcycle and of enabling the engine of the latter to run smoother and at the expenditure of less power" (lines 15-23) including illustrations and instructions.

Early general history up to 1900. "I have listened to the stories told about it by the old time cowboys, by the old settlers, and by some of the old Fort Concho soldiers themselves. As a result of this experience, I have wanted to go into its past more carefully and search for more facts regarding the region, its first inhabitants, and its early history in general."-- leaf iii.