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l'altaol &Yee, brother cf "aniel %one, histfry!..- trail bla74r, tre
so on. nother thilvt lboIrt our family, es unole of tie, thho
100121, welt to '7hina 101 -ears 1;7,t) to establish a hospital for tt,e
77)1s/copal lhuroh.
"ly the way, a coup,8 of hilt ,7r2ined.a..7hters made c v L.r.,it in
an 1 ti cane about the time ',I:7t at t ie show
0,-)o yway; but yol can I.:nazi-no %or t00% on, t71.ten tIreay :19eni/t
seen Tiara than a traill Asrd of lin cows before in t7reir. life., ii
nelve- saw any rodeo atqff. before. enjoyed t*.ro show an vlefas too,
clet ti.
'wow, naolz- to mr.r fTtti7. y tinyavilf:3thv operater! a plantation
in urines 00.,7ion, vv• dad ne4s born on it, in 1.814. r waa born all
that same plantation, "eo. 6,i9. ,bou.t the only !aevory I have of
tie old plantation is trt of learniv to ride on al old onrri.k71
have that was too old. to draw IT,* ladle earriaTs.
"That Vrt-iS darter" livil '!'ar, and the next memory is of lad
j'j'1i) the old n Int-?ti. on to oone to Texan. You 3cnee how the old
plantations were about their slave nor iar,os. 1741. some of the.nen
mere married to women on othitr places, and !7o on. glad didn't watt to
split any families up, so he told then ell he was roinr to "?exas, and
eU .4,tVit wanted to (torte along could do so. rrtfm-ttrastaly for hinit too
rusty'. wanted to oone.
'After a -10,0d deal of trouble, he, picked out the one he decided
tO let owls and ira V e the rest their freedom. Then, our stuff woo
tesited on one ex magas. of course, we oouldnIt Witte wvorYthinf!
eilmed but only the law book*, •stedtaine books, and keepsakes, Vitth
fee ratious. were load. The other mem wee hons1P.41tenet, wall*
hi:1 is, "cody
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six-harse team. 7:torsos of that day wern't the hones of today, e0
walon waft t-lirned over to the ni.e:gers.
th'A t reopunber, raoatly from the older folks' talk. t 1.0
mber us 2io'in.=7: ul an old Neenah sailor bsfo re we got to tT-le
1"issisei291.
:iiver. toll dad tht the best way to. Tet 80=98
rivli Iva at night, !I.v..es' se the Yankee guibonts were in con -and of
the river. The re:anon dad :we up the plantAion in the inst 7eir:
of the war was beoause the Yankees ww7..e win,iirr the war;and ieItintt
went to be in Yanee territorylif he could 7st out of it and rte"%a
livI.'-,ncAher thilo, the Yankees were inf7 every.thin7 away .,:rvn
the •onfederate per_7ple they needed; and, in 'it pLaces, when t"--.37
df.dn't need it, ruined it..
-Toil, to ,F,7,t a crone the rivor wtthout being caught. The ss-..i.or
knew about a rout.rli t that. was hid a cross the rtver tn. a C17)70.
ftor -howtn ai the lac:Air:1n, dad swam tb.,It rLvr, i Ole It "Le
aarose.e ot across, ten made the erranei,eotents with the oortrander
for that ntht, then t a small boat to come beck in.
Aen •te f7ot bct, he told the nigro to take the loads o:f
the -:regons, taket meons to pieroes, anl load elyerythine. neer te
ban%. ''7e could to this base the ntht.77ot dart early, anl
Sailor said a storm was brewing. I remember the sailor es,:ying tt
Vas Iunboats would back around. the, bend arttil morning, on
account of the storm. 'Axe enough, after the tr-A was loaded,
we t00% off, we never now a algn of a
the ct'ver shore, the ni-.17er unloaded
ox -team wagon up fir;;t. a eon'; it
Tar, aryl the nicfpers set about firint;
gunboat. -:"Ien the lrat renalej
ell te stu.ff, and set the
was ready to go, dad got qnder
tile 4orae wawa. They'd JuSt
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cot it fixed, ti.e team hitched to the wagxn, i;:ri 4.1 TUC gttr woman
loaded., wIlett we saw s inbot 'round the bend. Joo:zing baok at it
ail. now, t don't believe anybody on the gunboi.,t saw us, 'Jut Cc;„-
ftrel shot se toy rounded the bend. wee afraid acre) of.the
niggez.n mLirfat be hit, but they weren't, ',7he driver wy,tied that
siz-hcc•se team, ?Anilot the wagon a-z,Poing. Those horses to SP. tLt
wa6on so fast thut the niCe2,•er wasn't aole to .:eet) the wa,..lon lu t;•.e
trail aro the hubs j.:.et barely scxrapel the trees, along. "'e.1:erdt
wstohing for the wa,:gon. to be torn to pieces; 7.3-,tt it catie'thzw.i.41.
a4ight, and, we 3 11 (--,:ot away. t think the reu on lb r t t nigger
so good pith tbotte horses:was because he was one of the nen who
took 'earl of the p'„,:anV44. Lon beef, and knew how to h4Andle horsec.
nothinil else exoiting ha2pened on the trip th&A I." can
renell r lt now. Ile,.next th ingr rocs'. 1 i3u i_lut tin 7 tle
nige3r9 to work, clearing land and building ta couple of log hc,usos,
seys:-.11 sheds and b ,rn.„ Tt:ey were ali ballt with loas, because
Valera w.irt no pin iu.1bTr in the country. .11 the pine had to be
hauled great Itstenees. J. that couatry a1 wan Live Oak I -and st
Cal: trees, Whieh couldn't used 'or anyt"tiltg but log houses, and
so cni,
1 re faot let le youk a true story on preetiker by the
moteob Henry 112 4. la kept a little pine lwaber in the loft of his
house, an4 wouldn't sell it for any amount of mow. he'd loan it to
you,b-A he'd say; Murry right back with it because t mifiht lie any
minute, end Pi need that lumber for my ooffln:
"le never needed any pine. beoauee IptiMetidad bad the ni11r7
put ti -e windows* ant door* to the PLaniation bona* in Use Itettla
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the ox -wagon, and none of it broke, or even wracked, on that long
rough trip.
/77hils the niggers were bey gettitv- the logs 'and so on to-
gether, dad showed them what to do. 'Re then took the horse -team
driver mil began educating him in estiblishing a freighting !vastness.
oree of it was from the Navasota bottom to the Rio Grande 'alley,
but the most of it was flour from "tirayson, acuity tolaldwell, in
lurleson county. "t000rding to the old tally book, flour was )20.00
a barrel, and 110.00 a hundred.
%nor three or four trips with the nigger, he was allowed to
go alone. Ile'd have to pay for the stuff he bought; an/ if trio money
wan gold please, he'd bore a hole in the top of one of the standards,
(you know ham those old U.i.Goverwment wagons were, built to look like
a boat with rounded bottoms and so on), put the pieces in it, make
a plug and fill VI. hots up tight, then rub some dirt over it. rf
the money was paper, he'd out a piece of leather about the size of
the money, place the money under the wagon bed, and tack the leather
down over it, then smear some grease over the places. Re'd .7:# to all
this trouble because he had to pass through some mighty rough terri-
tory where some holdup mugs were supposed to control the county. I've
talked to several of those fellows who used to be holdup men in the
old days, and t ley said that they'd have an agrencont that they would
stay out of each other's territory. The nigger was never bothered at
any time. Re lid carry whelkever money he needed for expenses in his
pocket. If he'd ever been stopped, they'd have took this money and
thoulit no more about it, batman* that's all any nigger ever carried
with him in those days Just enough money fcr expenses.
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it like there is today*
ntlong about the time r was eight years 014, ry4 learned
enough about riding a horse to be used around the settle. The
folks used as in their roundups, wks rover a boy could be used, and
t 41.4 everything a boy °wild do* trrot better as T grew older,
though, and did sane riding on the sly. r/i ride yearlings ail melte
wherever I found them, *tit T could rill* one an/ let him pitoh as
be would. That was ralghty Roo4 training, whioh T sure needed.
"I got to be good ertouge when t was /.0 that the folks would Jai
me everywhere. T amid lo anything than but bulldog ard bust biomes.
leen the, t rode same tlt,t were considered brones. Almost hal to, to
ride a horse, beoause horses in those days Just about pitohed every
tine you got on one, after five or six hours rest. That was *Let we
*ailed *warming them up'.
n'his business of b ,rting the wild horses was what r was inter-
ested in. T kept on ritlinAr, every.thing I oould get away with until I
de some wild ones, Wout the time t was 14. T really oan't set a
Aate, Or year; Just along sometime after I was 14. I think the
main reason I got so •vod on them was because I'd always pick out the
worst outlaw in the corral every time I needed a horse. 'Mut gave as
sane real training.
Iler ra, the tires we first came to fleryell, when there were very
few men on the range, more and more oattlemen began to come in, ant
rot to see more (lowboys. lhesp.also,be *an to oast, in.
"I don't know whether 131.117 Toting, who had a rinds close to oars,
had sheep or not Wen we first got to aoryell. I do knee that than
he hired as as a horse buster. when Tins about 18, bik hid a few
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head of alio* and cattle, but spot:delisted in horses. Though he hired
me as a bran° buster, T was only to bust those horses he needed for
sale. The rest of the time t put in on our ranch. My wages were
one horse out of three trio% I busted. If T got any money, t had to
ten and sell these horses to get it. I did sell a few, but took
most of them to our ranch.
"Ilhe reason t kept so many was beeause Iroutig bunt up the wild
horse herd around his plata* by turning nom* young gteeldust end
'Vanish etude loose and killing off the old Mustang studs. had to
kill. them off to keep them from kttLtn the young studs Wait didalt
have any fighting overtime', but would let the old ones walk rti_7ht
up to them and got in the first blow*
ir don't recall ail Ilya details, or the dates, but along about
this time a numbfrr of last Texas eattlamem boom moving their herds
to `lest Texas for ate root. %bout tides a month, in those days*
weld see herd on the mesa. rater on, in the *70's, we'd see a
hem seem der, if we happened to be slow the trail. T want to tell
one on Olabe Merehant, a cattlemen *to had been worded up 'til he
wanted to move for free grass.
Ins herd was movinq saw to the Test, and passing throw:11
Van landt scanty, when a °Duple of some farmer's milk ems fot into
the herd. The farmer went to tarn and got the sheriff, where he
swore out a warrant ctlArging Iterehant with stealing his settle. The
sheriff went back with him and they sought up with the herd* Attic
the farmer pieked out hie amis. Merchant went badc to town with him
and put up bond. ten the trial oasis off, two men who looked Just
$lits answered when Merchant's name was called. They Vert drew:ma
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jtiat ttke, tal`.ced alike, and looked alVm. Mon the former wae
oni.1031 to identify the men Whim he alaimed stole his Goya, he eouldn't
do tt, and the sheriff Goulds It identify the mail he had arrested. Ile
the: ease sae I lasts sod and both men wont end rot the bond monerse
Tbat was one of the tinniest things I ever heard of Later, John
told me that nab* asked hiss ta ao through that with him. John and
lobe mire twin brothers. I met John in the commission business at
bilone,Tex. or mayb• it was Ian Angelo, I don't just remember shish
nogr,, ‘nyetey, °lobe e toped 1,n 'lepton for several years, then moved
to arOttelti kbilene, and ran a lot of Gatti* in New ttexico, too.
"While, working for Young, I net Shanghai Tiers*, 4 horse buster
right. 1e rode a horse or tee for Young, bat not for -money because
he had his ain oleos by now. I don't recall where it was, or anything.
'bat I racial about him was what he said about busting horses bethre
the war. He said he worked for Grimes, one of Texas's biggest ranchers
before war. Grimes owned nigger°, and kept oantioniog qhanghai to
be oareittl and sure. Tlanghai said the reason he hal to bust them
horses so good was beoaus• a nigger was worth a 1.,000.00 and he was
only worth 120.00 a month.
"1 think it was along about this time that Foote brought It* ap
to the country. itn those days* *hempen and oettlessi had a lot of
trouble "hen sheep *towed; but singe Young was already in it, Poste
ends the grads. When .1bote first eons to the count17, he went to yolk
for "'buss. Ile wasn't a rider, but he was handy around the dies.; and
sines he was pretty smart, Young made him a sort of a straw boss,
toots learned a lot about sheep this way, ate he'd sent his mess
bask Vast to his *Iles to buy up law, sett, from the Union ex-soldiars
in their sei*borkeed. After a fee Aare, his folks staked Ida witik
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*moult money to buy the old Robin Ranch, whioh he stooked with tive9,
then took the so:ip end bought more grazing laatt• loi in t7911 a
serious drouth mime along, and he had to move to where he could get
water. 'roung wasn't bothered, because he had plenty of wet erholan on
his place. eoote went to the head of ,valle Ire*, in qmeiltoe 0ountY.
!Ieli only been there tiro. or three' 1E03 whet the oattlemen hung five
or six sheipmen up by their thumbs nil they promised to get out with
Vieirherdn. A *couple of da.ya later, five or' six cowpunchers showed
up at his camp with &wagon end 7,4,03sd his stuff on it „`then had him
tell his herders to save the sheep along with the wagon. They mesa
him hnok about 15 miles then left him alone.. r asked Foote several
times what he and those scepunchers talked about as they rode along,
and he said: 'My goat r couldn't think of anythi:v to talk about!'
"Along ih the early'80's, t took a Job treil driving for
,achanan and Ileatty. t never did make maw trail drives, and none
as far north as this one. tt lasted too months and we took the
:ler/ up into the T rritlry, (now Okla "e had high water several
;lamas. You know, rivers used to stay tip longer than they do nag,
Thy I've rowed a boat all over out past the bluffs in back of the
courthouse here. I've rowed over every railroad, except the '7anta
and it was about a foot out of the water. Cr course, that was
toter on, but t" Just wanted to iv e you an example.
1?he herd was about 1000 head of stock cattle, and we'd stop
two or three days in a plate., Just drift along and let the cattle
grow fat on the place. "Ire'd drive thee five or six miles in a day,
thou drift three ce four silos "til they bedded dawn at aightfall•
"hen we got to "Rcirt Iriffin, there were alroetly two herds there
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bilfore us. I °set raoall the names of the owners. beoause in the
19ye we were there five or six acre herds wee up. This was in
the flays when a herd a day went up the trail, 'soh os fol1*in Vhs
other, it appeared.
ell. those Notts began to sleek up. That was bad enough; but
fag no reason a -tall, they'd run every ntlat and mix up with other
herds.. '9vt a time we had! stampede every night! /ty the time
thnt watar stlrted to -oing down, there wasn't a an in oarap Ur- t
wasn't su.apioioned of st:rting a run; ana! that wee grounds for can
trouble. Ivery man's ;Iirin hung loose in it's holster, ready for
instant as. It asemed lite we were all on tip -toes, and reedy to
‘Ther the wst,r went drten far inourA to ford, all the neris
were mixed up into one herd. The way out was to piok a referee,to
SG e Vat every man rot his own *Natio. Then the oowpunchers started
driving attt putting. u'y herd was on it's way in tin daze, and
possible murder was side-tritaed. Iftwr we *Tossed the here at
'noon's Croesi4, we rt plum out of sight of my other herd.
"One of my friends to used to be a trail driver, end went up
with a number of drives, was George, Gempboll. Re had some tell)*
experienoes with those "tunas squatters. They had alma passed
that, Olen a man's herd ruined his orop, tax of his Mt eibore re-
fereed it, set tin amount the cattleman had to pay, and if he didn't
up it, the sheriffld batik the squatter's 01.87. "ell, Carirr a rein,
it's natural ibr a 'yard to get up and drift; and if it bap:atoned to
drift on to a man's tiara where there was eomet'ilng good to eat, it
ate aid treapled. That was alright. The rub was that any number
of *rope were paid for, time and time again. %Min' a hen vest eve
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orop 03oe, you, ootilln't tell when it had hap.)ened if the strop
hal ben planted that year.
"That. and other triets, we called 'prejudice'. On some
trails, the 'Peasants would meet the herd at tbe border with guts,
la at the ocepu.nolvars narrow the herd dovnt, then charge them for
cersing. The next thing they did was to set seasons of the year
for floutrn cattle to trail drive. r just thought it woe beoaus•
o tie e3tapotition. but later on found Vey had a real moon.
ey fixed the Dionne between November and Ugly for trait drives
to pass througi. 7111.0 was known as 'Open ,easonl, snd was done in
an fort to kilL out what was known as 'cattle 7ever. r don't
just recall the year this fever was discovered as being caused by
cattle t Iola, but that was the real muse. Iwo louthern oattlemen'd
buy up some blooded stook. ettip 'en in, ad riUx *eat up with his ntuff,
are it wouldn't be no time 'til it'd all be dead from the fever. cn
tha other hand, oatle .that had been born in tick territory didn't
stela to be bothered, because they awe used to it. Them, the mineral
in ggp water seemed to kill' tick fairly well.
"These blooded cat tie were pret ty easy to stomp- after tig(Iat
a few ticks on 'la, too. Of course, YOUIrS 14104 to have a Stan *ft,
pads any t but you have a her rounded tip. n't have to have many in
a 'lord, either. :nother Claw, anything's liable to start tom -ild
animal, skunk, lig':Aning, or anything. They're more likely to st:Irt
at.-' it has rained a little, because a rain makes them eet up a-41
started
mill around, 4ty kind of at unusual noise starts 'em; and after Coy**,
It runs into wort tryino7 to stop then, nay, they're of faster Vaan
a bullet, f,";f oouroe, that Is sot literally, b•04111.• they can't rya an
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foot as Li bullet goes, but ti".ley run at top speed on a moment's
notice. t bellwee that everybody understands how a herd is stopped.
T111 jtast go into it just .a little bit. al riders try to got to
the front, where tliey try to rake the leaders tzza, then keep tuwn-
tn itil the entire ?levet is Whiling. Those litho can't reach till!) front,
the mitIdais and book of the herd film straggling, then when the
herd's milling you Ito; es the whole bunch together itil they get tired
runnit, Mn they stop. They never stop 'tit after on* of thee has
bawled, then the herd 'e 4toppid in leas than five minutes, because
ot?r2 critter° take up the bawling.
"t reoull one stomp in purtioular„ because it was so much t..:ouble,
7"0k just got the herr! Armed in corrals slow the rtrasos River,
when n train ,ea me along. ?hem aritters just tare that fence plum
emu, me run all night. 7hat a time we had! tt took us a rook to
roma "era up again. mother trouble after a stomp is that t.:Arytra
enttish and easier to start stomping again.
"7'• didn't have SO !Baty stomps on Vac Young ranch, because he
tiln't run to stock so "asavy. Tbe most sheep he had was along in the
and the 1900's, r reckon around 30.)00 bead of them. Then in
ran around 1,200 horses and 1.000 (settle in the !Upside ram 221 iron.
That was the way you made the bras*, upside dors-
kbout the eheep-herders. rhy, t:ley ha' to stay right with the
sheep all the time. T remember 3illy saying: "ix days shalt thou.
Labor. all exoept the *10*p-herder". Tim ecwpokes had times off to
ey:0 pines., savi they lad. a better life. Mother thing, they *era nare
friendly, and helve eat* other. Of femme, it took real riders to
work with the eow twitters, but a fellow no'uld irt along without
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vtir to ride like he did with the horse herd. rasn't no foolint
tarourtei with the horses.
-The reason I brought this up wee to show how they helped eadi
ot!rr in those day. t was a real rider, ae were several ot-here•
but from time to time nen would aone who eoul.dn't ride so welltand
t'‘ey were put with the eattle. ito setter where he went, thowt, he
!led to ride a brene, because them scoundrels we had in then days
Ilitched every turning. "tie had to, what we coaled, 'warn 'ea up..
711rit meant that wed have to ride thee every morning ftil they f;70 t
a little tired from pttehing„ then they'd settled lawn to work and
w--,ultn't pitch the rent of the dAy, unless something unusual lap -Med.
There was a rule, thouel, that you d to be man enougl to ride the
horse that was given you. tr you didn't, you lost the gob; and VIA'S
vraere T made a lot of friends for life, because Vd warm their horses
up for then.
''T didn't mind ridiroz those browse so :mut, •ithsr, beanie. T
loved to ride horses all the time, and nothing gave we so mash P7-ass-
2re as bending a horse'e. will to mine. Then, r loved to teach them
to out cattle out of a herd, artd the other trinks a eow hoses should
know. I always fl,,Nred a horse that MS broke right was as much of
03 tool, or more, than any builder's tools; ani .the baiter a tool a
builder has, the better the work he's oapable of loing• Of warns, I
hid quite m bit of .zelp in oorralling the wild ones, mid so on, 'Jut
in one, year t busted 176 wild horses. nother thing, not generally
known nowadays, in th.t horses in my lay we' -e not rods 'til aft
tlley'd had their colt's teeth out, te0 they're not out 'tit aft•,r
they're five years old, or over. Around 30 of the 178 *till had
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jrt bofo:* h ot to a onall bridge ov-fr a dry amok bed where
were a lot of dead nen. They w' tere beoause both arraiee
•rol foubfit Slot in forth over Vats ditch, the lent! fall in tie
ttoh, toll/ ra* irtgt he woaldn't have took a millio o:Liars 2or
t.. ulee, booause t• ey pitoheit so lard t'ily took hie nind off all
rd tee.
"There's a nen in ne Itook. Yards whc. you. -Jag it tc tal% to. Me
nr te "lorty tarr. rh, you've met him? -Ili, how did. his eyes
ntrtIce you? nidn't Vie:7 strike 7ou as bairr7 lie two biirnt holes in
a bl4nket? rtherea quite 3 story baok of u'Jout killircs, and so
on; anl luck un1j, wore for "aseitly o-nnission in the Uthanje
73121.7.ding, ways it 's all true booms)e he was in the '"erritory when it
bn:r.lene. he "taxer framlly MR a bi fr1.ly. ary! nest seva-al fmus
nen in it, rl outlaws. '"ony loesn't *lairs in to the
oTitlar "tarr in Vas Tfyrritcry days, but believe he wan 1r -in.
''T was up in tIr rritoz7 right art)r Ur outlaw was tha erd
tel.:12d to flie men rhr, wes suppose to hav "hot htx. e was jivt
ynunr, fellow, by ho nane ofHe& Thomas. iiiaok said he are an %or
yog fellow (tinsel "tr for awhile, 1.!len t'!'s ether fellow said: tr
betieve 7'11 glt him°. 1"hen he stopped his horse, knelt down, toer,
13,in with hie rifle, t' -an shot. Hoot sold that while Itarr lidet
fnit• be started reelirg in the Belle. it was cut cf rifle an:t by
then, so they start- aft -r him w:ain. --intty noon he fell of 711.3
horse nal t jstop2e1 !-%ere he was, thon ate 'til he !Le c that
eoaLdn't got away, if he happened to be playiv possum on t'Lera,
''There's a rawhilv here in. Port --Irth V:at T*4 112e:e fo:: you to
See. lc:TOL know just where he lives, but h.'.a nane's mwla”cisning,
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fathar woe the ft:st sheriff of Ooryoll county. isswis and VA.
cohool tenoher were in to sahool building alone one day, when the
radians came. ,eels hid, and they killed the teaebere '•-•hen t'Ley
dian find anyboly else, Vrolry went oft*
,:tiesit there's not :ittah else to tell. aut tie wife, t:lere
'e in t were. talking about olden tam; here tl-te other day and
oho naV th4it vie stayed on that ranch in Coryell oounty yearn. in
r w as out eallivanting uround, sbi: stayed rie;ht there. "ive kept on*
•lnft 41 te time, but V. -taro were Lazily* from one to ao around the
D'Incie. That's the way times used to be. -"henirvor you ea a man oom-
-to your yard, you didn't it to find out Whether he was a
stram:or or not; you tcli him to ii.ght, feed his horse, and. QOM) in
_t celuok time.
The women in ny time didn't do marth ri.din! around, ex.ept to
olLi:roh or to visit. Tloar. ah MoCuteheon shs mettle step-dau,-Iitlr
'Ally Young- she Vittal quite a rider. Tant's the time I've seen her
rile a cutting horse eide-saddle. She'! work in the roundups, ton,
land t'v.7: seen the it t bot*een her and t'lt saddle more than just a
fee times,. too.
"Joni. Young, ailly's daughter, wan an older woman than Sarah,
cal aoull ride and rope Just like any mane-side-saltile, of worn..
rt t:73e indeoent for a voctman to ride a -straddle. ten. I've seen Jost*
rode and bulldog many a 3::/.3 ,ound steer.
'Va. yea. kbout the mule street oar tines in aoo. t soli theta
CD'33 t'leLr first mules. And after they'd been running for *onetime,
took one of the ex-elavo atiggere loan to deo on a cattle drive. I
acid beef to tlie -aeosb.ef oontraotors down there for quite wahlii.
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311, ten he lator saw the ooe cars; t' en.ri lu ter ra.ve r in
tr'le electric oars firet cane in, 'ie-went letth rte ee fire',
ene le saw, he just 91'10% hie head fer r ae%ed 'aim "'hot Cie
tz--yOle was, and 1, said: "fen, T1*Te elan 'en 'Isaleiwitirintoe, and
wenn ‘'ess run with aok• ut T never T'd ev,r F! 31 len Inn
r74 ViShing POlafit. Y#1!1 %Witt, thlt nir rrr '1361 ociehandii
*C.21. ri ride awl rope el 1.th the beet of them.
"There's one othfkr ihing I On tt th in% r'vo ramtione.d, an
the hide Inspector. Thet wee political rice aoretite aft -r
1801e, and acted sort of" IV!, the bank. elerrring houses of' talk?,
he( to see the hid.„ every critter thet woo titled in the cont-Ity,
on rrtify the etas whc ?lei the bran ree:Tistered vr,en the 7ss
killed, and who "old it. That way, the erttlemen kept .up Ti.th et
cattle; and "ee a trial ITV,* cane thron,t end lone of the oattie
Joined the drive, the 737ki eho.nold the beef won -If send the oth-v
chest*. 'lone of them Just kept books and settill a; ones a year. 7h:A
'til some fellow mold more, trattlo than he was able
:?ey for, then he was in 9 Jae -pot. 71:o•re jast. one ,lan wu-
CV-'_'77 it, too.
r.r7111, r've jaet ,hout tc1i yon r311.7' an nve, ex -cat
t71nt an honest men 'lei to e awful carellil in the
saw too rstich, and was known_ to be too honest, 7ie rue in danger
hts life. T. alwaes followeet the polley not seeing a t77:.ig
unless 7 was fere.", to, tie T formt. Mir !las 'eoen the relson- 1:171
lived to the Mil» old eve,ye r've lived withont ever bein7 shot, er7,171
OTIO., tnen rive beef/ tireeut couity wars, nobs, and ao on. 71.1e
reneon r don't talk now is because inite u ntrvmir of those rollout'
sitpp,y
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today, sal are honest men wLth families. They just •j'ol-
lcwe?!. the custom in tree lir, end Aon't see why tshcfuld flake
t' slfrer fcr something they don't even drown eou!.6
hn )ned ones.
"There es one mor a thinl T lould have told you about, ai tTht 's
t. -7.1e way ?go p a got around w%en we first Calle to Texae. cal the "Tames,
or 9 out of 10 anyway, were gullel. by oxen. I recall now how one .nan
rai4 he liked to see a team of oxen run away, because they toot f.to
ion- to et out of si;Irt. You know, they didn't travel ,very feet.
Horses ware a big improvement over oxen in mare ways than just !vim?
fast. An ex Was so stubborn, and ?ad to be watered w'len he z.rot
thirety. If you didn't water them right tuft, or right away. V7eyll
pull your whole load right into the water 'tit t7.ey rot 4eep ent-Itga
drink without benling over too far to reset it. They ruined
reveral loade of flour f7r my father that way.