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George L. Flanders
Gauthier,Sheldon F.
Lanyelore.
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ueorge L.Flenderso.179oIlving at the Old
Folks Home, TO NMI* C44111021011.1.1111 horn Apriletho
195904 St .Jeceekollebo Pie hither Wad when
Oeorge we two year* old sad at the age of
nine wee Compe104 to go to work to help support
the family,•
At the'egzi of 13 be started his sereer
RS cowboy at ifbleh tins be eourod work on
the *little ranch owned .by Coll, and Toll, nanny,
who*: bre-rd we s smiled ,libe mazy Do Be roan toed
with the Wert D rentb for six years,'
enlistedofer a term of three year.,
in the Scout service under eznerel Riles in
the year 110.6,0* was then 19 years el4.
The following day after Guster's sees.,
aoreoJune 111010011761;b• we. with Senerel *Ilse
when the General arrived et the Bottli Ground
.on the Little Big Horn itivor end *masted in
burying the deed soldiers.
(*ergo was In several betties spinet
the Cheyenne Indienco On two ooeselonii he wee
shot off his horse, lie was ilouvolootligg from
wounds when his term of serttest ended,
After he regehied his healthrhe returned
to tho Crazy D ranch for a- ported of one year,
nor lervirp the Creay.D be secured work as
steady hand with the Jehe grown,reneh where he
remeinedgmeemaatfer en yearn ,'E1
yea,' Eli
next ,phe o prient wee with the Teddy
itelievelt Horse 4uoiwit in the year 1,91 end the*
he termineted his rear gorier,
His story of range life follows:
vtas born April ethollibe at St Joseph #to my father
was a brick MP sontbut died when I was two ',elms old which caused
mA to start hustling for myself es soon. as I beams* old enough
to find someone that would hire me, :that heppened when *es
nine yarn; old end I hove been on my own !VOSS that dry to this,
H4hen I was 13 years old I dragged out to **atonic end
secure() work on the (settle outfit called the Crazy D' end which
we+ 3 owned by C.H. and VoHorhennyo The rens& wee .oelled the Crazy
Dob,souse their brand woes D 1510 flat. The ranch was looeted
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57 miles .est of LelOse Mont. At that time about 12 houses wee
ell the bielding the town had. We hod to go there for our well
end supollesothet trip taps made once a month, In that b7 miles
there wps not sign of eny dwelling.
"Our camp shelter wee mrdn out of gumbo mud end poles.
40 poles erts# stuck into Ve ground ',bout two feet end of course
stood uprikitl. Also, poles were nleoed across the top/ The mud
wps plastered onto the polesobout dz inches on epoh side, in
the mud wps th- roots of gloss which would grow to some extent
and that -oulo bind the whole thing togeth-r as one piece, After
the muo dried it woe herd and would turn water and of course wind
or coo e'r could not go through th,, imillsolio we had a warm dry
oleos for selter.
"Our chuck consisteo of beef,buffelordeervelk,prpirle.
hensend otter gems. Beans end breed with some canned vegetables
becked up the meet, I don't went to forget the black coffeeof
thpt we bed all we cared to drink.
"Our cook was Penny Carter, Aunt FPnny we milled her
eno she was the wife of Bill ‘"erterothe top.screw and a good
foremen too. Among the waddles nesting at the Crazy D were
Joe end Ji 1 Pherris,4111 FoillsAmm iasly bovs„Lew Curtis
ell top w-rkers, there were about twenty others lesser ligt-ts.
Bill Foills was the County :lheriff,
"11-!rt country hod so few peoole thpt the sheriff fob
was not a regular full time job, the job had to be given to
some rawhide or oattlemaybecause there was no other kind of
people' in the county.
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"The Crosy D wss s lnrge outfit with cattle scettered
over e ire soctio* of the country* the number of heed run-tn.
to 20.000 it wos calculated*
nv.0 lived in tt!e open most of the time during the sumIter,
squatted be int this chuck wogon.becsuse most of our work hod to
be done from thew to frees** Moto es s rtleowes between Miry, end
IleV• muring those months all our brondingoutting out critters
for t, -e morket end evervthinr else had to be done* becouse when
latter set in we s;,rifted the *tittle to V.e Bed Lends* her the
critters could find more shelter on& the temperrture does not
drop so lowpbecouse of the eltitude which is considerobleilmwore
then the surrounding country*
Lends is like s -uge bowl oerved out of the
earth and in there' the critters could find considerehle shelter
durinr the winter montbsolso, fair resting* Whet snow fell woe
dry pod would not peck herd so the critters could pew it off the
frozen gross. At times s thew wout; take piece foiled by s quick
frees. end thet woul- put o crust over tt-e top of the snow* If
the crust bgerme too tlAck for the critters to break throughowhich
was seldomothere was higl spots where the wind hod blew the sum
off end that would give the cattle gress enoue to get by on.
lie in the apci 4ends all th-t we we dies hat; to do wits
vaptch the herd end sort of keep them bunobed there was not mudh
danger of stampede end night. riding was not done. lhe snimsls
would not leave the soot because of its shelter and feed*
the overage winter weoth‘,r the onimel-,: would
come through in fair shop* en o when Spring gross *ems on it would
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only trke emonth for the critters to be in top ape again.
"All our winters were not of the average werther. I
h-vp seen several winters when we he* extra heavy cold spells end
many critte s would freeze. It would be the., weaker oneof course,
that would go firsts During such weather we tried to keep the
critters on th move the best we couldebut in the rutils4as existed,
in the 4ad tandp, it wee s job as eesily done as putting your
elbow in your ear.
"Onn of our snr'ng jobs was eeerching the renp. for
dad crittersotrAch we -skinned end removeu the tallow. e hands
ware.pald 501 extra for each skin that we turned over to the boss.
did not beim mush trouble ,in the Bad lendepwith
stampedes ceused'b7 blizzards as is the case in the open pretty
ranges. The critters down in the bowl he; too many spots for
sholter,so would net go off s -running hunting for the lee side
of some timber spot. or bill.
%hat stampedes we had to deal with during a blizzard
were ceused by wolvrs running into the herd to down a calf. That
would heppen,most of the times,during te fore port of t I- storm
if it was point: to telAll place. The way wP delt with s s
for a bunchOi. us waddles to gat at the heed of the herd and
shoot down s few of the leaders. 'ihen we did that those coming
from behind would go into s spill when they hit the downed critters
end pill up and soon s blockade would be formed that would: stop
,the stomp,
"That method woulu cost s few critters,but as s general
thing be less costly than the lost from strays end tilled if
the stampede was handled in any other way.
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"I was called sway from the cowwork in 1876* thir
Chs7enne Indiens become so bed that s bunch of us cowhands off og
the Crazy D were Gelled into the 3eout amigo) under General Miles,
That happened with all the outfits in that section of the cousifty
at that time,
"Out of the Grimy outfit there were the two Finnly boys,
Joe and "tok PharrisOack Mcgoen,Lew barter and myself that went
into the service and signed tin for t,'ree years, ?or the next two
end half years I was getting reedy for bettle,having one,or in
•1-ospitrl getting ovmrthe wounds received in a battle,
"It was less t en a monthofter 1 signed up,that I got
my first load of lead during a figt with s bunch of Cheyonnes.
lemas ,:harley was the on17 other Scout that got hit and three of
the soldiers were wounded,
kw scouts had located a bunch of the Indiansoll fixed
in their war rigging, North of Deadwood S.D. and reported their
location to General Miles, A detstchment of soldiers were sent
with us scouts after the red skirls, kr got into a hot scrimag*
Vern
witheno the ft t listed rbout lb minutes. It we a running
fight and the Indians got away by scattering in the brush,
Uowever, we -ow s goo(' number fell offtritir mounts, e gave them
mot, then.thits received After they hit the timber we had to
let them go because they would have ambushed to a cleSn out It
would have taken a *Vole regiment to. capture thP 100 red skins
in that brash.
."hen the fighting as over I had a deed hose and
brAcen shin 13ne, A ball went though my shank hone and into
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*ngelore,
Irrrert Cot,List,,p7'
my hose killinf the *nisei, I wes in the hospityl for two months
end spent snottier month off duty bef!:re thet log got in shop. to
-tyke its -here of the works, I willof course, werr that seer
to my grrve end thrt spot is good bprometer„ I eon elweye fops.
tell s spell of westher by its feelidgo
"After I. got well end .returned to dut7 we bed s few
moie smell scrimmegesowhioh broue-t um to June of 1776 end with
it come roders to proceed to the Little .1.g.rorm end meet Generel
‘.'uster, Ai ervIved June. 26th to find thrt the bottle had been
fought the day before, All we could do wee to help bury some of
the deed soldiers,
"1 went to tell tell which wee told to me by s Cheyenne
Indiert thet fought under ZItting aull in thet bettle, I wPs told
to me seVers1 years efterwerds,Aliko, the some tell VP8 told .to
me by Led of s zoitx thet olpigrd to hrve the tell told him
by the Cheyennes, he stetement is that Custer woe not killed
by the indiens,but took his own life, be Cheyenne sold: 'Custer
bed recevied r wound in the hip ono WPS uns'710 to get upohut con..
tinued shooting until he bed used ell except one of his certridges
end with thet 10st bullet shot hiumelfl,
"Pe worst bvttle I Wee in rgrinst the Cheyennes took
plow, while v:e were going through from North glver to Fort Lyons
end s 1prge nrrtv of Cheyennee tapkled us in the onen country
just i4orth Of Deedwood,
the fight le-ted for en hour st2; ',4#8 hot PS bodes,
They no ubt bed been on the wptch for us end figured thet thet
the time end place wfts proper one get our swap. They out
Osuthier,:telden
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numbered us two to one, iut, they•under celculoted our fighting
Pna guts. In our crowd wø 141out b0 scouts end en ImOicsmat
106 soldires„ (:#st of thp scouts were framer Mwhends end s good
number of them from 'lest lexps, 3affelo =ill end Bill alchemic
wee with us thrt time, Le there were bp der good shots end fellows
thet were not efrpid to rem fire. All of them ,more or lessehed
fooed fire before, If not in Mmdion fightingothey did on the range
end were 93 cool es a cow's nose in the summer time, e ere ell
mounted end riding toy 'breast with everytling- looking quiet Ind
rosey, then suddenly,beng being,brug it begen to hell leed„ They
t-ekled us from both sides 'no the time wee just *bout en hour
he f or, '7.1113
tift scouti didn't hesiteted ersecond, be suddenness
of the etteck plumb riled UA end we drove into tkem devils e.cumew
ing et the, ton of our voice end shooting Lest ono true, oe did
not know how meny Indians were killed, es they would carry off
ell Clot they could,but we counted 100 deed Indians efter the
bettle,
"They were not ermed with up to dote guns wes we were
and wrs not as good shoots, itla their first volley of lead sll
the demege done WP8 fee sliet woundsoot s men wee put out
of potion, The soldiers got into the action too„pronto,following
tIle first volley,but we scouts he surprised the Indians with
our Orsh into thempinsteedinf becking piny. Our desh emend the
Indians to serttereno then it was e running ft&t.
"we fbelowed thoir move end divided into squads ond
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each squad woulc nick out few Indians andgo fter themowetoh..
ing not to get nulled too far off from our mein body of men,
It ...r:es ft fierce battle but we ware getting ten
to one. At the end of en hour t'nere wnre n'ne dead soldiers ell
one deed Scout/with sbout ge wounded. the Indians were et ill
times .working baok towards the black timber of the hills end•
when they reached the timber line they scattered in the Ilrush,
i‘hey went in all directions end of courle met P t 80M9 pointide.
aided upon before the bf-ttle,
"In that b-ttle I •Fain was one of the wounded, That
time I received a wound in the calf of my left leg, ?he former
leg wound W8 3 in the right leg. cc I am branded in bothelegs•
The secom leg wound was received along a'cout the middle of the
Vre fight,but the hit did not stop me fro fighting. In factvit
did not '-Other matey:cent to sting a little and I felt the blood
soaking my sock,but I -was too busy to give it any mind. Eewevers
b fore the fi.g1-t was over my hoes got itf,ot from u.nder me end I
hit the ground. -lecauserof th-,, condition of my leg I couldn't
handle it properly.. snd broke it in the fell, ihet put me out of
action find in the hospital again, FAiffslo Jill got nicked that.
time too. A bullet went through his cap end singed his hair.
"ay the time my leg was well enough to depend upon it
bed put in two and half yeers of my three years service nwriod.
I then had two week riegarwith the lest wound still quite tender,
so I was given an honorable discharged
"I WS in imeckwood and *toyed around there until my
leg was well enough to take its bunps if I received a spill off
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pitcl'ing hose, "hen I WP3 setisfleo w'th the condition of the
leF I returned to the ersey range.
noAle hanging round Leedwood I saw some of the rough
life, he town wee them off by its self set there in the Beck
Erne end the 1pw wee whet the 1°0.81 people held to be the prow
conduct end.some of it '41 not taken from the Book of Mosses.,
hen folksoper-k ebout herd buckproos, none were herder
then some of the folks thpt nested in Asepdwoode the eilswgun dew
aided erguements en the fellow th-t drew first and shot thee
knew the best law,
'At thpt time i)eedwood Dick,Clemity Jenepaerter end othes
thet become known through the country were ton cherecters,of the
town, There hP3 been many toils told ehout Clemity jene end from
whet I,asw of the women I reckon that ell the tells ere shout
true, he wrn s wlu cpt in n f1:1 -t with her fist or gun. at
the wee liberel with her money end hod tenoer feeling for eny
down end °utter, Zhe wes never known to turn e.broke cowhand
down when he asked her for help, 44!et women had e just reputetion
for never beckinp @wily from e fight, lverybody bpd respect for
her W'coting ebilitv, he never raked any men to tette her pert
she hendle,d ell such of her troubles herself,
"I sew her shooting .one time to show whet she could
do, A person stood off 26 peoen end .held s notch between the
thumb end first finger. Jere shot end lit that metchydoing the
trick time en_ egrin without a miss. there were e few other
women in that town that Gould handle gun too, If person
wonted to lie', there he had to be able to shoot fast and true.
"I went to tell one more Indian deal before I stert
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ohinning about cows spin. this Indian affair was S -battle in
widish 13 Indians were killed without s shoot being fired, ill.
Indians were out after a smell bunch of us scouts that were
scouting for Ivor Indians. had camped *est of Firgus .1'61118,
Mien Meer the heed of the tied River of the North. Abend of 13
Chief
IndisperunderAsug, Ing Smilyoneeked upon our comp intending to
seelpfts„ It so happened that we scouts hfd gone to the river
for s bath at the time end the Indisns found the clamp deserted,
"Prior to going to the river, lied mixed some wolf
beitothere s bount paid for waif scalps, end I was intending
to piece the bait along the river. ihe brit was a mixture of
floor and strychnine stirred in water making a pests that wee
left in s pen at th,-, comp and when Laughing Sicily and his braves
saw the mixed floor„which they no _doubt took for flsp.jsck batter,
they filled C(.1e0r flue with the mixture.
1%illop we returned to the comp we found 13 mouning
Indians end in s short time terta were 13 good Indians veAoh
boom* wolf food, tit is how Chief Laughing Smily net his
depth.
en I returned to Vie Crazy D outfit nested there
for to year end then drifted to fevol-al outflts,but finally lit
on the WV outfit owned by john roin, he outfit was located
32 wiles West of Clendive ont,, he outfit was estimated to
to be the lervest An the morthwest„ At that time they run around
35,000 bead enc used the sale system for winter grazin# as the
crazy outfitothet was to drift the cattle into the Bed Lands•
aTbo next outfit that I nisted with was s hose outfit
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OS P steady hand. It was located on the Little ti6lesouri hiver
nerr Adonis So J.,sk" ihe outfit belong to leddy ioosvelei, he
run over Z,000 heed of hoses and had e jemup outfit,
%here I found some of the b-st hoes wranglers that
I ever worked A.th,„ Where was Jim tes, Chas and Pred,Austin,
them three were from texas, and leddy himself was e reel wrencler,
Le coulo wrangle with th,, best que,with the excentisr of Oates
and I reckon that no men could best him, Teddy's daughter 1411ce
Ws around 10 years oldigienshe wps e good rider for 'e kid girl,
"loosvelt run %of the best boss outfits in the
country, rver7V1ing as elways kept in Wiintop Menlo, the best
belly...pater I ever lined my flue bahlgawas on that hoes rproh,
I know him by the mama of Dutch Cherley,because that was what
every body celled him, "e could take nothing and make so-rothing
fit to en out of it, Nev, on the R boss ranch plenty of good
material out of w'icb to fix chuci,; was supplied, -,o with e top
cooky we lived top.
A.00evelt most elopys was working with us waddles,
he Would mat miss a roundup if he could heir from doing soond
he worked as any of us waddles did, e coibillelso, 40.0 good
job lining his flue squotted on•-7nis heunoted be'ind V'e chuok
wagon as any waddy that I ever sew,
"In after veers when he sold. out and then became President,
and the only ex.cowboy to reach the !lig,' office of President of the
United gtrtes, I often hove heard. folks talk end say it was all
.bunk e outl`eddy being a,good weddy end thet.it wee just paper
talk. Well, if the chinmers had seen him wrangle some of the
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lekrreet eip4;wisto.d7
houses tbst I did they woul. es7,that the paper diCn't seY half
of it.
'here were some bosses in the herd that were celled
Oregon tosses, they were larger then the ordinary bronco end would
pitch longer end with more tricks, I have seen Teddy wrangle one
of those Critters that did the plegon.wing. Any old timer will
tell vest that a fellow thetcold stay wit piegon.winf cutter
was a rldere
-"Jim Bates,' thinkome the top rider in this.00untry
during his day. 'I never sew him vet busted by a hossondi that
tell' s beep about e waddles riding eilitv, and I f01/0 seen
htm on .one of the worst critters tn the herd, s soon as he hit
the tree be would start fpnnin oriqterh ears end reeking its
sides with the gut books He knew How to 4.ndle his lid to put
the- proper sting on the critter's *era enc gen:qv-11v it veal not long
until the hose became discoureged enci steeled do,
%bena boss gets the feeling that the rtderis going
to stay in the tree„it dontt i.e lonv for that animal to give in,
unless it is loco and then it will pitch itself down. I wetc'rid
Vites rids one that pitched until/ IA drooped, Vet critter lv,ed
on the grOun quivering- for 30 mirutes and when it got to it feet
dotes mounted it again end that loco eest again iithpd ltseri
down. That en'mpl was doing the nie on.wing so you can get an
ides whet kind of a rider i=letes wfs„
°I went to give you en ides what the ple,gon.wing cutter
1040Ing while pitching, the critter elevates and when .it Games
dem the feet ere pulled up, the hose drone within s few
foot efthe-groundethen suddenlystreIghtens out its. feet. That
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of course will couso r sudden /Stop enu pt the SPMO time tho toss
stprta smother elevation of tWO feot or so, A waddle tht con stay
wit Vs't move eon be rechonod es s rider,
%h,lle I em rettleing p out hossos end pitching went
to tell about m hose Pin 1 -ors„ It wts the worst looking hoss„
end the fostestpos well ps the best working boss, thet I ever owned,
I bout Fin Eprs for 410,inclucrng the sesdle from p broke e4
thst time it_wes in the esrly 1900's 1 wes working o smell
corl mine thrt I ovined duriny the winter months end thengenge
durilv the summer, ibis fellow acme to me et the mine end soid'
to me011lis hoss is the best cutting out oss thst wslks on four
fn
totf you ern ride 10.
P:s for es tr ridinc I WPS gure of being ohl., to do It.
I rockond tst if he could could also, T.,- pr'co s so cheep
took r ohs c- end bougt th,f psi,
"The hose MIS P buOekin eri the ug17;est
ever sew rolled into hoes hide. It looked as tY.uvh it wrs just
slopped togethed. Its ears w re reel smell en a Alm to o point,
lhst w -s wtv he was colled• Pin tvs. onimelts hind lees had
or extro curve thst mode those look like the lotterN„
"The first thing I didofter buying its weS to test its
ridinp ona Wtching rbility„ I Wos neer s strew stock end when
it
I mounted thrt enimplfsbowed me e move thot WPS new end one thst
novo hrvr spen the equal of, lho s V shooed legs mode it oossible
for the hoss to execute the trick, ,,hen tlIst critter come down
froq) it s elevption It lit on /ts mrd legsogoing into sort of
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t emit
squat nnd rockedequickly,to its front feet, the time -the
critter got to its front feet it was elevating again I failed
to follow thpt movement end when it started the second elevation
I w nt'onto the stria*
began t) reckon P lout the movements of that -hose,
because I wanted to iget my. 010 ofIllervice out of the cr'tter,
,ftter calculeting on the action of tho hoss for some time I sort
of felt that I hed.figure out ':ow tovileet its movements, I tried
the out again:end the second time I stayed with V, critter,
but had s tussle end P 0108,1 call, :4ter tht the animal made
MO P good mount•
n1 worked that hoas h n the sprinp rounutp br,' -ding,
fOuri tn :rsfa$t As the fellow had told me, tie best cutting
out hyln hmd ever watched work in amon the cows, ribrt animal
!led a world of aneedenot expected fro r the looks of it, 'ou tPve
heard tell of Cutting out '.1osaes th4A could work alone. "011,
Pin EIOVS was the one of them and the fastest t'ini,7 with the work
that IThad ever straddled.
"tnother funny thin' *bout that hess was that any waddy
could ridejt around a bunch of cettle„but a very few could do
pn7U-Arw with the hoes sway from the heerd„
hile working the roundup severel of the bo7Ja had rode
tT
03flito see hew it rode,
i•
from thefheerd so the '-oyi were lInt wise to the animal's tricks,
kept to myself how he acted away
After the roundup WP8 over there Was little doings
put on in Miders end ofeourse
of course e lot of cowhands were in town for
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e little fun. I wes there with Pin litre who hso by t e time won
reputetion end the bo.s 11 -,re telking shout the crtttess work
0
during the roundup.
"it WS3 not long until e strong* cowhned,hit me up for
e jog on tho hoos t se how it imddled. I said to the fellow:
"'Ur tirtglt with te,if tho hose is 4illing4
tt j'o iou reckon I can't ride the critter/1
"That is what I calculate to ohinl",i said.
If you'll allow me to look the saddle overt/Ill
bet .2o I can"
h t
'lour onl: I answered and the eloney was put up.
,he wrddy looked the saddle rigging over for burrs and
other agitation materiel end'wes setisfiedoeo moutted the critter
ng
end took his spill with re first len:line of th
A woody that had rode the hoss at tho) rounduptchinned
in and end.Offered to bet ad he could rie the 1o.s using his own
xsot
saddle. That het w.,s taken and there- was:19 nunter of other bets
between othersoo the deal w -s creatthg toleroL0:10 lot of emit.-
ment. When the second wawdy got ell net :her mounted end received
a surprise boceuIe he bad r -:de the hcos it tLo -f.undup and wfts
sure of himself. Le also went into e spll pronto. ihet move
Pin Cers had was something they hod not reckoned with.
"Iiher, was s free.for.ell reel, put on by the merchants
end rode Pin "ors in that race eno darned if thnt V shaped leg
hose didn't win the race and do it with ass,
"PinWars became thetralk of the town end that evening
e merchant came to me end eked me how muCh I wanted for the. hose.
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knew the merchant and said:
"A4000 from yousbut 41,500 from sny other persen:"
I don t hinve that much cosh to Span, right now.
I'll Five you 4900 cash end two brorco." Lie offered.
"I accepted the end ported with my 1 10 investment.
"Durin the whiter months When working the cattle in the
bid tends :end we hod tolercble lot of time on unr hends,our time
wes spent practising shootingtridingeron`ng,l-lurting gems,trepnIng
wolves no such out side sport. At night in tb un'y house we
followed the snort of rordinR the wish bootpreeding Ado s and gnawer,"
in tos,1 for the fun of reedinv the Answer. Espeololly the voids
in the lisert end !lend paper. main busint.s of tl,r, Eeprt and Bend
was publIshIn edmertisments of men and women thrt were lookIng tar
s este. he boys answered all such sdds Pnd ha s beck of s time
essedin each others answer. In feet, once in s w%Ile s cowhand
would get himself a me1lorder wife tht way.
"The wish bookobsve us msny hours of onloymenbt Ile always
had soverrl mail.order cstploguns snd would pour through theme,
time s.ter timn, wising for this end that vrticle niotured and
dtsoribed.