DAY, JAMES MONROE (ca. 1840-1904). James Monroe (Doc) Day, cattleman and drover, was born in Barry County, Missouri, around 1840, the son of Jesse and Sarah (Logan) Day. He was brought to Texas by his family in 1847 and eventually settled in Mountain City, Hays County. Before the Civil War^qv he engaged in stock raising with his father and brother William H. Day.^qv In 1857, with William and Willis McCutcheon of Bastrop County, he pioneered in blazing a cattle trail to Sedalia, Missouri, and Quincy, Illinois. After the Civil War he owned a ranch in Denton County and drove cattle to Iowa and Kansas. He was a brother-in-law of Jesse L. Driskill^qv and was associated for a time with the Driskill businesses in Austin. Day was ranching in New Mexico when he died at Roswell in 1904.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Joseph G. McCoy, Historic Sketches of the Cattle Trade of the West and Southwest (Kansas City, Missouri: Ramsey, Millett, and Hudson, 1874; rpt., Philadelphia: Porcupine, 1974). James T. Padgitt, "Colonel William H. Day: Texas Ranchman," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 53 (April 1950). Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.