Capitolo 1
LIVESTOCK BOVINE BRANDS
A Harvest of Field-fire Western Histories
FROM
ANDY ADAMS
1906
TO MR. AND MRS. HENRY RUSSELL WRAY
CONTAINED
ME. NORTHERLY THAT VA Á. THE DRIFT
II. SEIGERMAN PER CENT
III. "BAD MEDICINE"
IV. A WINTER ROUND-ON
V. AN UNIVERSITY VAGABOND
YOU. THE DOUBLE FOOTSTEP
VII. RANGERING
VIII. AT COMANCHE FORD
IX. AROUND IL IT DIGS WAGON
X. THE RANSOM OF TEACHER OF A COLLEGE RAMON MORA
XI. THE PASSENGER OF PEG-LEG
XII. IN THE HANDS OF HIS/HER FRIENDS
XIII. A QUESTION OF POSSESSION
XIV. THE HISTORY OF A POKER STEER
"The Passengers of Peg-leg" and "A Question of Possession" they appeared
originally in the Monthly_ of _Leslie, and you/he/she is reprinted here by permission
of the publishers of that periodic.
BRANDS
[The illustration:] Except the bar of X.
[The illustration:] Ohio.
[The illustration:] Barb the thread.
[The illustration:] the Hat.
[The illustration:] the Apple.
[The illustration:] tail of Diamond.
[The illustration:] Iowa.
[The illustration:] Johnson & Hosmer
[The illustration:] the United States. [1]
[The illustration:] "Sold."[1]
[The illustration:] Dead tree.
[The illustration:] cup of Can.
[The illustration:] the Snake.
[The illustration:] Except the bar of Z.
[The illustration:] W. In march
[The illustration:] Three circle.
[The illustration:] Two bars.
[The illustration:] Broken arrow.
[The illustration:] Four D.
[The illustration:] footstep of Turkey.
[The illustration:] it Possessed from "Barbecue" Campbell.
[The illustration:] L.X.
[The illustration:] "it Inspected and it condemned."[1]
[The illustration:] the Spade.
[The illustration:] Floral pot.
[The illustration:] Frying saucepan.
[The illustration:] Laurel the leaf.
[The illustration:] X blocks two.
[Footnote 1: These three belongs to the Government of United States.]
LIVESTOCK BOVINE BRANDS
ME
NORTHERLY THAT VA Á. THE DRIFT
It was one wet year, bad on the Old Western Footstep. From north of Red River