Capitolo 1
A MATCHMAKER DI TEXAS
from
ANDY ADAMS
Author of 'a Cowboy's Trunk'
ILLUSTRATED BY E. BOYD FABBRO
1904
[The illustration: Rolling On The Taurus Come A Circle (page 207)]
To
DEPOSIT OF H. FRANK
CLIMBED ON INSPECTOR U.S. CUSTOMS SERVICE
LAREDO, TEXAS
CONTAINED
CHAPTER
ME. YOU CAST LOVELACE
II. SHEPHERD'S FERRY
III. LAS PALOMAS
IV. NATIVE
V. A PIGEON CHASES
YOU. Spring Of' 76
VII. DAY OF ST. JACINTO
VIII. A CAT CHASES ON THE FRIO
IX. THE ROSE IS HIS/HER THORN
X. CONSEQUENCE
XI. A COOKING OF TURKEY
XII. You spend the summer Of' 77
XIII. HIDEAWAY CHASES
XIV. A THE DROUTH DI TWO YEARS
XV. IN COMMEMORATION
XVI. MATCHMAKING
XVII. WINTER AT LAS PALOMAS
XVIII. AN INDIAN FEAR
XIX. EQUINE BRANDS
XX. SHADES
XXI. INTERLOCUTORY PROCEDURES
XXII. SUNSET
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ROLLING ON THE TAURUS COME A CIRCLE
WE FOUND THE AMBULANCE STREET OF AURORA FOREHEAD
FLASHED AGAIN A COMMUNICATION
DATUM TO THE WILDEST HORSES THEIR HEADS
HIM SPED GIÙ THE COURSE
SENDING FORTH A SOLO PENETRATING PUFF
CHAPTER ME
YOU CAST LOVELACE
When I found job with Lance Lovelace, a cowman of Texas, me before
you/he/she had not reached my majority yet, while he had on sixty years. Although not
a native of Texas, "Uncle Lance" you/he/she was entitled to be classified among, his/her
pioneers, his/her parents that have emigrated from Tennessee insieme to a party
of the farmers of Stephen F. Austin in 1821. The colony with which his
people reached the state disembarked to Quintana to the mouth of the Brazos,
River, and shared the various works that have happened the whole first Texan
farmers, touching hinterland later to a healthier place. This way the
education of young Lovelace was one of deprivation. As the other boys in
pioneer families, he became to turn a wood wood-cutter or drawer of
you sprinkle, as the necessities of the family applications, in reclaiming the
wild region. When Austin raised the flag of Stella Sola and new-been born, and he/she called
on the strong pioneers the adventurous farmers came to defend him/it,