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devastations of fever imparted from southern to national animals, it had
gives quarantine place that is strengthened against every escort by the
South. The matters were in a stunned condition, and less that one for
cent of the equity holding of the State of bovine livestock had found out a market of
during the year 1867, although in general ranchmen was full of hope.
Me spent the rest of the month of October to the ranch of Edwards. Us
is returned in duration for the autumn to mark, and George and me both they did
acceptable hands to the job. I had dominated the art to handle a
you tie with ropes, and while we usually confined the livestock in an enclosure all, as soon as one day passed
but occasion happened out to tie with ropes bovine livestock wild of the brush. Anxiety to
learn soon me building an expert, and before the month ended me I had taken
and it marked for me more than one hundred maverickses. Bovine livestock they were this way
unworthy that nobody went to the trouble to mark completely; the
crumbs were acceptable to me, and, since any other worried him about them
and I did, the floatsams and human wreckage of the series fell to my brand. It had me
is ambitious, double that I number would be been able to easily be insured, but
we never went by the series of house in to gather calves to mark. Everybody
the hands on the ranch of Edwards, darkies and Mexicans, were continually
throwing in the fences in for livestock and pointing out unclaimed bovine livestock, while me
thrown and indelible runs the figures" 44" on their sides. I was partial
to heifers, and when one was sighted there was no so thick brush or
so wild animal that was not "fish" to my rope. In many examples a
cow of unknown brand was still followed by her of two years, one year-old animal,
and present calf. Under the customs of the country, some unbrandeds
animal, one old year or on, it was a maverick and the ownership of some
one who desired to mark the unclaimed one diverts. Thousand of bovine livestock this way