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Dist. 186 Sordege
VA -3.7t 11.)/10 I) MIT pa UK
As related 1)7 W. W. Watt, plower rancher
df years et age.
Is a letter to M. Z. O. Willow, told verker.
September 14, 1936.
I bean work em the Long 3 Reach ta 1084, Augmet 15, just 50 peers
e. out of the couatry wee epee ramie, or at lase* it was from Sweeteatow
to Al Poe*. emarealy slept la a hone, fer three years. we branded about
15,000 cattle each year. About Nevemberld, Mr. Otis Onset*, the vensger of
the ranch, paid off SO men, ome had worked 11 Jenne, soother 7 years end one
had been an the ranch for 15 loam AS he galled each man into his office fed
paid than off we vatted for oar mill. Shen he milled um into his office, of
sours. I expeeted to get my time, but to my surprise, he said, *Da yue want
to work this minter?" bedew eo asteniebed, I ealmly r411.d"Thaws but couldn't
un4eret,And why he live offering me a jeb, a of 1? years, and only been on the
ranch throe nthe, whoa he vas letting some of the old bonds 42. SO mid*
*PM ioin to keep flour:An:end I vent than to Camp en the Image tine rope ond
brans, salves wherever they find them*. AM that just melted no and the rest
of the boys* putting it mildly, tor en were thrilled over the work.
rie would stay 4 or 5 dble in one else* then move to another place.
The three other pckrdere have gene en the Lest Heandmp. They were CU*
Goldsmith* valker Dureey and Nermin Beak.
Mr. Oue O'Keefe seat me with the SO mem he laid off to Big Spring
in a widen. rhea we oot about half sordee teen, one of the uen said:
'Leas kill that damn kid and to these males tepee and lot them go home."
They had tpt sone whiikey end was pretty au*, and I mon soared se,
est as close to the Indian Cook as peolibler, thinking he would help t.e if ,hey
deoided to kill ms. Tell* mare use glad to get to towa and unload that buneh
lls
Fakitlere
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Of 13sood oceb,Ads.
Is the full of 3.606, we eerie gamed betimes t'3nyder and L;olovr4o
city. One night re hod several Modred heed of settle under ht1.44so
had tawht, 6addled n4 stakea oar horses for V* night, oe as to hove Lbw- whets
I. aa-o our tutu to stand maid. Asa ubsut geed dark ono of the horses got towage.
up in Ills rope and brake loom, fed sway it meet with the saddle; the money &Ad,
o, I hope the antelope* get you beta= neasieg." hfter d few Anutos study,
the youne ;an slid* -Pa, does *toilworn eat horses?"
a August at 14109, .41r. O'Keefe sent re to witch the western beendpiry
of the rung', which r1,48 the welt side of the oid C aendit„ weed by Mama :orris
of fAioado.i et-Ayed ho or 40 days riding line and ettile there I tit,Ad for ha
In orecl etch. I think the spring must Neve been three feet long fro:Abbe
tine it to to wind It, sad you could hear it for ten steps. A) the first
nidbt I woe with the DOA, we west ea sosp drive. Now c4 soul, drive is like- this,
each 7:sa tics his Al/alter an his scAddle and pals tic pieces of steak ea two
biecuito in the soAle pocket and leave, the wagons/ler i41 eaxLy or, Ig4 g
or ;5 WolJok. Ai ride out tas or fifteen Alms, unsaddle, stqkci our horses
6otwld elickoretuai :saddle blankets Aare bed sad use saddle for a pillow.
one in t* erowa iVAiG watoh and I dide't vent th*,. be no 1 had ono, uo I
ept off Vara* I maid to keep the boys Irma noticing saythina in partiaulas.
:Arum 1 lay dowa, my watch tieltod so laud, I date bele in the round and covered
It -444h dirt. But when tier gait talking, a shoat tie, ne ot Vela amid:
'AI haw,' watch tioking." AMU's! said, 490 to I." 'i'hou the third 14
do you nAve a rtokr 03.l I tisO to See up to Wane in eoesomilon of a
they ht -A4 to ese the teltet and 0A.3.ine hugg.
cetc%.
nextor
so aner TO re it un to see inside of it, we Gould not at it Gi,eX tutpthor,
so thnt e Vol 1et of ny $100 'etc*.
kfter we ivai vent the night an uur saddle blenkete, se would ount
our hosee„ swatter out cl AtLe 1,4■.Z4USIII. drily!, (tattle bask to the won. Aouna
thosup, eut bU head of owes Paid eaves, bread the *elves and turn thir. llottoo
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Sono time we would out some *tears or tht goes Cut tern the herd to Ship.
Ihen uso the mord "out" it seem to separate the cows fro the lag
herd, whieh uJually is 1,000 to 4000 head. If we could clot the cattle to the
pen we mould take them there, It not, we would have about roar wen to hold the
bundh While one would rope and drag a egg to the Mee mad four nen bulldog
it, tie it and bread it. One nem is used to take tkilly; this rork ust)u about
ten fleas
I will tell you how as WerAed on the general sork4 that sens nen room
different rGnehea for CO to ZOO 14.1eis north. One men flu-, each rwIcht I was sent
on what we willed the Qolorsdie mark in September 1261,, there sae 25 oen with the
wagon I eolKied with, Which was the 011 weeps. Billie Nendrishe was weeps Wes.
We would out our cattle together, kept all the different brands in one herd.
Svary (mai- we would braid eaves, one or taMyson mould rile in the hsrdlund
°etch calf)0ag it to the fire and call out the brand its ,,,other r -s wearing,
if r, Long it would be celled, if 9.11 that would be sung to the NOM and so on
for all the brands were different. As the snlves were branded, one ftt Id* Et
tally book would :larh one beside thiAt breeds
We made ourlast Hoondup that year ;,t. latan Tank, *riot of Lig Sprin.
:hen each Mari Ma the oAtle, worked and took thenback to the onsoh they
belonged to. 3ons ti es, two or three ens viag the same eays in that akos they
thrur their cuts .r.,outhur and drive the herd to the respective =when as far Rs
possible. s hd 2b0 hes&
the last roundup, Ton 411eon of bigaske and I out our cattle together,
be eta rorklag c;uybe south of big jpring about 15 Bile.. As we drove the herd
along the duuty cored reed with tired Oyes but with the eonc un our hearts, we
leisurely tangs "8ye whiskey, aye whiskeys 0, give no Rye Vhiskey, or die."
However neither of us drunk.
I duess the next thing is a bear story, I never ws oh to tell
starlets bat I used to tell lies, but I have gait that.
Here, is a bear story. There had been sorezal storice told when ORO of
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tho boys spoke up dad avid. "That's nothing; about ton yours t..4.70 X roped.
bear and he turned, e„raLbod tho rope. boos to some towurd I'vos “nd Isaw
he vicla pulling 134 hovse toward hit* so I Jumped off the horses and he kept cooing
to the horse. '2':hon he ept oleos mow& to the hors* he jumped In tho umddle And
•111 out with lay horse and saddle. I have never moon bin aloha and that's boss
ten yuara scoot,
Several of the boys bogsn to sing Ryle Strews for that wAs the song
they sung when they Ad a.% believe anything.
The mon I worked with vas modemet mos Ilks Mr. 1. W. Carpenter, a
paraot of faine,Lad didn't toll nanyvttorlos. It they did I have forgotten thwilp
As I Wye bcia G Christina aa years wed east think ray* along VAto old ruys of life.