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Ten Oarratt, 52,7iraricAorn on the Tandy
lama, whioh was toenail& on tho n.l. out-
skirts of rirt worth sad extanded to mbar.
nandlay, Tax. nos stands. TM was taught to
ride at en early age, asi wad -employed as a
regular eawley at the age of 104 /Rs tathar,
'Fmk Garrett had won reeognition as a top
cmwhaaa, thus Tam resolved U. best training
possibla, working with his father., non he was
26, be quit the Tasdy_Randk to work with his
father, Wm want to dealing in stook. Rim
father tiled la 1916, ant Ton went to the Triangle
0 Randiall'in ("rooky and rabbeek counties, share
he was employed until he pits at age U. ifs
t en emu to Fort 'forth. to pursue various other
occapations„ where he sow resides et 120? Weil*
Tt. *nary:
'oes t know anything 'bout die old time cowboys? ma say
r does! i"byg Zwas ben on a rant*: Just a few miles f'om 'hart
-woune am studios right now. I avas bets on de Tandy leach, ridit
up tie ariok room Cut do big white house at Tandy 1ake now I.
'Twat( on raven/me' de 10th, 1885, when de ranch am so bt tt runs
Voss somewhat in shlr 'oly ws now, to do Udder side ofiwtwr
landley an now. In do days' Pm telkin"bout, 'twarut no houses
3 -tall,- Just opa critters, grass, ant mesquite blahs,. 'e head.
quarters house am a double log house 'rid a hall runnin' between,
an' a big rook dhimpay on both sides.
.'10104, now, beide a nigger kid, 'twarat mono of my business
'bout hew many emitters to Taman *A:truants% nor how many
sections 'tans in de randh. 'lout do moat of .at T eau tell
'bout, an to *Okla' and what Is can punahors done. I can't tell
you 'bout ishon.I pot rode a boss but Toll say 'twas befol r was
three yeah* old, 'cause I.oma raolloot pullin' a hose over to a
mesquite bath so's I oould mewl an when I was so small r
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oouldn't oarry anything very heavy. lithe time I was six, t was
ridin' ever' yearling t could oat** wid a rope. I was Grassy to
ride. I wanted to be rine 'roue' all de time. e main most
reason 'hind de ridinl idea was dat I wanted to be lak my dad.
lin naive was ''rank uarrett, an' lotus oldtimsrs will reo'leat
him as beta' de best in Is business in dot day and tits*.
My dad was a naoheral ben now german. 1e had *het Was
oallted'oow some'. 'at meant Mat a man Just had a naoheral
hankerie to' mid eritters, an' was bo'n via de knowledge
It how to go 'bout it. Aanoher* Von 'lay 'round would send w114
houses to him dat had busted up one of dere ma, to have my dad
break him in. Tell you 'mother thing. You oan go 'round as lour
as you lak, ma' you'll mover find man dat ever sew orank
Garrett thlowed f'om dastarm swat of a wild hoes, no natter IEIV
many men he's already kilt. -4on't mean to be blosin' 'bout it.
but t Just wants to show you dat soma folks an ben to be now
persona.
"Now, beta's I wanted to be a top hand lak my, dad vas, r
tried to do snythlitg he did, ma' worked right 'low did him w'ma
hi was out we'kint. I nada b &II time hand wife T warnt any no'
dam 10 yeah. old. 'kat a striplinl, but de nulls of de strOlin's
in dose days oould outbest tic 41verage Eau of todar. lotse now,
sinoe was so young, I lane plum ftit .ot most all 'bout de old
plane dat hapoined 'ten I was so young,
oan rimelsot havini de roundups in de spring an' fall,
an' how de oow panoharn f'on roundabout gathered together sots
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to have de roundup ant all wek together, Aen *vide de crittsrs
to oath men. 'amain' to de brands. 'Twarnt so hard to 'aide on
who de critters b'longed to 'mime dey am all brandoll wid die
brand an' Ws nO 04114e follOr04 day auvamies an" ley mammies
have dey brand, so to calf an branded de isms as do mummy. lvert
roundup have soil strays f'on some ran* 'way off 'cause 'twas
troll drives come throw,* "mart aid de etrays have dropped
outline di drives.
o_show you how cattlemen dons _each td' in dose days,
vton a critter was found wit a strange brand, dst critter mn
drove to tie ambits Amid tudder critters, sold, ant di monfty sent
-to de man Whose broad -an regtetered in is capitol.
seem sisetal, trail drives dat ooms. through eort °Tor* WOn
I was a kid. ne trt44e an 'bout fOl to five miles long if dey ma
any else stall, an' an hooded to'ards de Tasters markets. nese
drives am uoual :wade to kberleme, or tuddsr big markets. 'Ilwas
?aro fel a drive to be headed to allows, but meal even went
dere. no way r picks up die lenstion am u!on le drivers talks
to Judder *ow punchers while in to. ley always stops an' tanks
up on skink., in de saloona down town, an' I stands 'roan' ant
hooks de talk, 'rudder thing 'bout de drives am dot is don't turn
out to' no tom& nor city, 'stead, del drives right on through town.
'The only place dey tarns an to' de fords on do rivers an' cricks.
or to miss a hill to go through a valv. Iometimos, doy would
have to go outer Alti way to git to a watoh hole fO' Is critters.
no Chuck wagons would tome throwt right behind de herd. 'loss
interestin' to see tern, an' de covarld wagons wid de s'plies
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de ohm* wagon.
Ladder thing int an interestie to se*, an do wagon
trains dat oases through 'Pbrt Worth, an' beads4 teards Remo
army poet, or sone tradint poet. '?was usually oow pekes flat
"drives do testae dot pulls do wagons in Is trainsa lone wagons
an pullakt by six -sight oxen, or six-eight .pair of houses. ``‘s
homes an lots faster din Is ozone but don't pull ea much stuff
39 a rule.
"rlittlat" book to Is 7andy tan*, r shore wish We all could
be book der* in Is twaddle right now 'owns 'twos sev"al real
riders an' ropers dat wo'ksd lore. 'Ides my dad, !twos Ben
clingers. Henry :handers, an' Jos Purvis, oullud follows at Gould
rids most anything. "'Ion, narster lalvin an" Tiarster Monad* an
,7:ood riders am' crook shots. lay *wild make a pistol. telk. z.Let.
Never saw dem miss anythirK dey aimod at. Marster tlalvin an do
ramrod. Its runs de plata* for Is Tandy*. 'Tawas coital may uhito
fellows welted tore, but beet so long ago dat T've *lour licht
fo'got lore moos. -tey oould ride, rope, an' shoot, too.
"likart de bosses. 'twasnt no *ha/tags of houses. '40 allJ
just went out on de plain ea' -7zetohed tea. Cn a000unt Of do
plain, vs ocaildn't pen *ea, so two -three fellows teams up, one
wo'ke togsddor. r'•es a wild htnaG, all. rids sots to get Is hoes
'twee= ten, "'ton Is hoes an aorta gowned *twee* Is riders, °Los*
in Itil one of 'ea could drop a loop on it. tfoneansood
shot, held Just *roan* Is hoes. ',remain* an shootin' Just above
Is nook an! numbin" Is !ousel* dat runs *long top d* neck. ''en
dot an done, do hoes drops lak he'd been Noll be out
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to' 'bout long 'sough to tie him up, den, 'Oen ha aluseertp:
we'd let him up aid a rider on hiM6 latgs "en de rodeo'd Gone
Off. rf de hose en eau ht by panning him itween **Val riders,
-ang ma roped an' halt down by dampest one of de boys transfers
a saddle Von a tame boss to 011, wild hoes, mounts, an' den de
rodeo'd some off.
"might nosh de hoes** we ketchsd am wild Spanish hose**
wid do long mane an tail nay oho' had plenty kick an' jump to gen.
"Iftah T was gbout,28 yeah* old, 7ort "forth had growed a
lot an' my dad bad gone to malting a living doing nothing but
dealing in stoat, hose** am' sales. good deal of amcwolk was
in 01440 stallions an" as on. an' oastrating 'en to make 'em
better stook. t quit d* Tandy* an, went add dad. In de more dam
five yeihs Ives; wid him, Imess I oastrated *Teething ram a
house oat to a ateble stud. One hoes we eastrate4 was a rasing
hoes named 'Barn D. He was famous for winning de raw's, mg
ACrster "Thitten owned him.
"nad died *'en Twins 31, so I girt do dealing burinene au'
took out fbg '"est nas. I lit on de Triang4 0 Ranqh, wqich
run in Irosby an' "'Jubboak counties. "was a big-un. void so away
head of °titters flat I Vltava Marster "Prank lehen hal to guess
at de number be awned. I gepeot be had 30,000 or neg aft' lot
me toll you tiotto many a critter, or anything else.
"ne rant* an all fouled in, an' legen you took to Mt tome
row, you was always -70n* two-thrse days at a time. "te all had
to fetch a pack male fog do chuck *anon. ne yolk an mending
fines breaks, or anything *lee we sow to does rails out lAk dat.
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no food am boor, beckon, onions, an' a little doffs. If we all
*spieloned we sight be out se dais we riggerell on, we'd tak•
son* Jerk. Jerk am dried moat. "Tams se try in dat country dat
it don't =in Wass -tin menthe out di yeah. To wake de Jett,
cooky outs Is vantooniv_beef, tahetover be xoin' use, ant hanms
it out on line in de sir in strips. ""e moat dries an' cooky
lualge it up in de meat hoses. "'tea we ail wants any of it, we
Just mita to le meat 71.ouse, git• as mush as we figgor maw
miitt need. ."e always toted a little in Is °haps poet to.dhow
on, in ?age we p.:tta honfoy befit)* time to make de dinner down.
'"was fair °bowls', eves if I did lek tuner victuals batters
"wesnt no callud fellows sooptie myself on de "rion$71.0
7,0 be on dat rases, you. had to he a real rlier;'twa-rnt no
tulder kind -'oepted. `71yde ivte, rrank tth. gm' gi+onald-
funs am some of Is saw pots. I reallocate. 'Noy we 'bout is high-
est pow*ed riders in any man's ocuntry. nay could rids an' shoot,
rope lok rodeo letors. In facto day Gould duds most Is
rodeo .perfo'mers 7: ever saw.
-17was so dry ut dare, a follow bad to be a r:ood rider eon
de rainy season este /a. ,e lightnie an' thundor. storms we
what'd set Is critters goin' on a stomped* in Plitrity *holt orloh•
I've read, in do `"1.111 7:e at books *bout de stampedes, en let me
toll you. dat Is real thing shad's what a man can tell. :net
rigger out what'd you do if .you was batched out in Vont of a
stompedint herd on a night dart as Is ass of epees, an' de hoes
you we ridin" bad stumbled in a 7opber hole an' you was on do
ground, lutowitt dat 4. arittere'd Just as sacs stomp you into do
ground an Is next lump in Is way.
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"lees lak nu wale it mighty soary, but dat's just
'Isaatly shat happened to *tank ftrth,one time, so t was told.
'Iv way out was *Oen lightnin' flashed. smi he sada out some
eritters in Vont of him. He already had his pistol in his
mitts, so he blasted ell be mould sea, an' kopt firint 'til de
pistol am a polity. 'Twas a break him dot di, critters be hit
falls down ant autos right up ttil day as in ftont of bin, ma'
tudders falls, dat mats *arta tbrt, an' de herd on de
stomp just claw 'round. I'd sow be used his norZin: wouldn't you?.
beliaves ever' ward of dat tale, tome, r naves. saw any of dos*
Tollows miss a slot, an' I see Ism sheet plenty times at rattlers
'n prirts ehiakaus.
-"'udder thing 1st causes stampedes melon 'twos extra dry
season an' all de watah holes am all dried up. "en, de hands :lave
to mil'Av de 25-00 ail* drive to watah. '"en de twitters cons in
"vet 12-1t ails of de watah, an' de wind ea right, dey out smell
de watah, an' de thing aint male dot oan hold 'ea, den. If 'trait
a big herd, an' we can't tt 'ern to aillini befe de watah am
reaohed, (ten 'twas a '')eef loss dat run into real money.
ea on ral,74t be a stomp, da riders all totes
sev'al extry lassos. -141 triok am in use% de float °Fitter on
had to turn, rope him an' elt,:n try to pull hta 40 he'll tarn
an' start de 'was only a twit* rider dat could pull
dat tridk. rt took real ropint knowledge to put it over, too.
"at's why 'thirster Johan 'sista' on de jpod w'en it came to Win
an!. raoin'. 'Tieskint just (Twitters de boys roped, though.
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"noy don't think no mot of =pin' bear, or a wolf, don
t woulal avian' a stiak. I'vo hoard lotaa tines dot a boar wad
eit down an' pull do rope to him. "411, di ridoce dat knowed de
bust does wont give him time to sit down. Noy Jorke an Jerks tit
bear an off b:.,Ionoo, an don doy drags hira 'til he *int so
wilLinl to start trouble wid somobodY. Metre do time t've soon
a rider ow* draggin* a boor to "do ohuok Cason, an have de (rooky
out him up into steaks.
"I've had lotaa falls oat me 'bout de rounduP ‘bu3ineloe. I
don't know how to toplain it 'ooptin to emy dot we all Just
mutton: out to de for Gomm of de plass, gathers ever' hood
we an And on do woy to de pinto* wham 'teas 'greed on to hold
de matters to' b-47andiny an' outtinl. 'Twarnt no latddor raooh
dat hold d• roundups wid tie 7riongle C. Tuddor ranches have
rep'son'tivos at do min hard aftah do roundup h do erittore
Itthoroih e re'Poon'tivos hips brand an so on, an' out
out, an' whatever ea matted, don doy outs out cloy critters to'
dekl boetne• ley way, if In any tudder or Mors strays onto de
Triangle J place, day eon gLt !Ureter aohon dons Is we
way void di Udder owners.
"1.,atea claw' 'r 'bout atomposios, an°'twarnt to do old day*,
but in die day ant tines too, Gam* I roan a stomped, die fall
in loot Tomas. t was ridie elohel wld some willis• fellows .9ea
a herd lawip a rise over to our Loft. le stopoed de 'oar
an watohed 'en. 'oause doy weaned to be imint hell bent to'
'Iootion. "ay Goa. rlght on tolards de fano*. an' Ulu we all
had be. 'bout WO foot farther on, /on' caultin.t nave de oar* we
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a1.1 would have be wisobed flatter's a fitttair• %taus* der
just, plowed on over de fano., just stomped it down. e
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trateled tan itil dog run plum outer alAtit, don drove om to
eort worth.
ell.,,30.oas tat's 'bout all dere la to le range buv Lime'
tonnes t took tudder wore o akin' on Aloe dem ora lotus
ways to boot de ow Iftuaohint vitly of 'mean' Toomey.