had charge of the overland mail line from San Antonio to El Paso. The town of Big Foot in Frio county is named

in his honor. He died January 7, 1899, and his remains rest in the State Cemetery at Austin.

ALONZO MILLETT

Alonzo Millett was born in Bastrop county in 1845, and spent his boyhood days in that county and at Seguin, where he attended school. He had two brothers in school with him, and when the Civil War broke out the three Millett brothers were the first to volunteer. Alonzo Millett, at the time only 16 years old, entered the Confederate army and with General Wood he went through

Above is a picture of an old time rail cowpen and a majestic live oak tree on the John Huffman Ranch, eighteen miles north of San Antonio. This pen was built before lumber came into general use. The posts were placed double and tied with rawhide, with rail ends between posts. Pens of this kind were frequently built large enough to hold several thousand cattle

many battles and fought so bravely that he was promoted three successive times. His twin brother, Leonidas Millett, was killed at Manassas. When the war ended, Alonzo

Millett returned to Texas and during the course of years that followed the Millett brothers gained wealth. Their ranches were scattered over the States of Kansas, Idaho, Dakota and Texas. Misfortune came, however, and their wealth was swept away. But Alonzo Millett persevered, and at the time of his death he owned a large ranch in San Juan Valley, Colorado. He was killed by being thrown from a horse on his ranch in Colorado, and was buried at San Antonio, Texas.

ALONZO MILLETT

Above shows three comrades during trail driving days. J. R. (Ranse) Pettitt now lives at Rocksprings. He was a great song composer and poet for the cowboys. Sam Hunter lives in Kimble county. Jake Spoon died in the summer of 1922 at his home near Menard

COULD RIDE A HUNDRED MILES IN A DAY

C. E. Johnson, Charco, Texas

In the spring of 1881 I started up the trail for T. M. O'Connor with 700 horses which he sold to D. R. Fant in Goliad and drove to Ogallala, Nebraska. There were seven in our crowd and a negro and Mexican, Tom Finnessey, Clint Heard, Jeff Gallagher, two Williams boys, and myself. We crossed the Brazos at Waco, the Colorado below Austin, the Trinity at Fort Worth, and the Red River at Red River Station. We were told the Indians were stampeding all of the horses over on Wild Horse Creek, in the Territory, so we left the trail for a distance of two miles, and avoided trouble. When we reached Turkey Creek we found there had been plenty of Indians there, and we camped where they had been,

all of us got covered with body lice and had to boil our clothes to get rid of them. When we reached Dodge City we stayed over a couple of days, and while there we sold some saddle horses to a man named Eddy, who ranched on Seven Rivers, New Mexico. Finnessey and the two

Williams boys went with him to his ranch, and I have never seen them since. From Dodge City on to Ogallala we had bad weather, with plenty of lightning and thunder. One young man was killed by lightning. We disposed of the horses at Ogallala and I came back on the train.

In 1882 I went up with a herd for O'Connor & Lam

bert to Caldwell, Kansas. We had a little trouble with the Indians and had to give them several horses to get them to behave. O'Connor met me at Caldwell and took the saddle horses to Dodge City, leaving me to sell the others. On this trip I passed Jap Clark, Charlie Boyce, the Rachal boys and number of others. I sold the horses to a man named McClain and had to take them back to the Indian Territory and hold them for a month. When I got back to Texas I married the sweetest girl on earth, and of course could not go up the trail the next year, but in 1884, in March, I left my wife and five-months' old baby with her mother and went up with a herd driven out of Goliad county for D. R. Fant, road-branded F and ID. Mr. Fant had 40,000 head of cattle on the trail that year which he drove to Dodge City, Kansas. That was the year Bing Choate was killed. When I got to Dodge City I stayed and cut the Fant cattle out of herds as they came in. I stayed with George Stokes who was in charge of the Choate & Bennett cattle.

I moved to Goliad county in October, 1884, and have raised a family of eight children, seven of whom are living in the largest city of Texas, except one married daughter, who lives in Saginaw, Michigan. I own a little farm of 320 acres, on which my wife and I are living in contentment, and I don't owe any man a cent. I am now sixty years old, and my wife is the same age. We are both as spry as ever, and I feel like I could easily ride one hundred miles in a day just like I did years ago, when I took the long, long trail to northern markets.

RANSOM CAPPS

All of the early settlers of Mason county, Texas, knew the subject of this sketch, for he lived in their midst many years. He died at San Antonio, October 15, 1921,