Kate’s  Notes: I have been unable to find any more information about David Gilleylan, his family or roots, so contributions of any genealogical information would be welcome.
   Although this particular transcription was made from the account published in the Lima News, the article appeared in papers across the country. I actually corrected some typos and missing text in the Lima paper from a copy of the same article published in the Big Spring Daily Herald of Big Spring, Texas.

From The Lima News
Lima, Ohio
29 September, 1936

Injury Ends Cowboy’s Life
On Range; Opens New Career
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   KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept, 29 -- (UP) -- David Gilleylan was a hard-riding Montana cowpuncher till a horse fell on him. Since then he has been a cripple, altho he can walk without crutches.
   His injuries ended range riding and branding activities, but it opened a new life for him which lends promise as some measure of fame and the possibility of considerable income.
   The bunk house in Montana was full of carvings and drawings by Gilleylan while he was a cowboy. He carved with a pocket knife and used a file for smoothing purposes.
   At the suggestion of other cowboys, when he was injured and learned he never again could pursue the rigorous outdoor life, he took refuge in his carving and drawing ability.
   Gilleylan didn’t have much money, but he “watched his corners” and studied at the University of Missouri art school. Later he entered the Kansas City Art Institute. Prizes have been his, and attention of art critics has been attracted to his wood and stone carvings of colts and horses and other ranch and outdoor subjects.
   “I carve what I know -- the ranch and corral and pasture, and I’m trying to improve them all along.” Gilleylan said, “One day soon I hope to get to work on a large stone.”
   Most of his works have been necessarily small. Money is not his chief assets, and large stone blocks are expensive.
   Kansas City critics call Gilleylan’s best work a sandstone portait of colts, called “Twins.”
   The feature exhibit at the annual outdoor art fair here was Gilleylan’s. It was featured by “Twins” and surrounding the sandstone work were jade figurines which have attracted considerable attention, and horses carved from mahogany.

-- transcription by Kate Maynard, 2010