The Trail Drivers of Texas: Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys and Their Experiences on the Range and on the Trail During the Days that Tried Men's Souls, Volume 2John Marvin Hunter Jackson printing Company, 1923 - Cattle trade |
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... night and day with a neighbor fifty or one hundred miles off , and it was a greater pleasure for a traveler from some of the more thickly populated settlements to wander through our neighborhood and sit up the entire night and repeat ...
... night and day with a neighbor fifty or one hundred miles off , and it was a greater pleasure for a traveler from some of the more thickly populated settlements to wander through our neighborhood and sit up the entire night and repeat ...
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... night . The next morning , on this occasion , my father told the men to continue with the branding of the calves , and he would go out and bring in the horses . Finding only a few of them , he returned to camp , then went back to locate ...
... night . The next morning , on this occasion , my father told the men to continue with the branding of the calves , and he would go out and bring in the horses . Finding only a few of them , he returned to camp , then went back to locate ...
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... night , a high norther was blowing and it was so cold we couldn't keep our cattle from drifting , and we stayed with them all night . When the boys found us the next morning 1 we could not stand up , our feet and legs 14 THE TRAIL ...
... night , a high norther was blowing and it was so cold we couldn't keep our cattle from drifting , and we stayed with them all night . When the boys found us the next morning 1 we could not stand up , our feet and legs 14 THE TRAIL ...
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... night and the other fellows got cut off from us and the negro and myself were left with the herd all night in the Territory . These cattle were sold to a man named True of Missoouri , for whom I herded until fall . On this trip , in ...
... night and the other fellows got cut off from us and the negro and myself were left with the herd all night in the Territory . These cattle were sold to a man named True of Missoouri , for whom I herded until fall . On this trip , in ...
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... night we had an- ' ther storm and our cattle almost got back into the river , in fact they got into flank water and I told the boys to take their slickers and stampede them . They ran to the Wichita Mountains where we stopped them ...
... night we had an- ' ther storm and our cattle almost got back into the river , in fact they got into flank water and I told the boys to take their slickers and stampede them . They ran to the Wichita Mountains where we stopped them ...
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