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Newsgravure and Magazine Section, THE JKFFERSONIAN, Towson, Md., May 10, 1924.
HOW TEXAS LONG HORN CAME INTO EXISTENCE AND COW-PUNCHING BECAME AN ART.
Hundreds Of Thousands Of Wild Spanish Cattle Were Roaming Great Jungle Country Of Southwest, When Texas Became Part Of United States.
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(Continued from Page 4) doubteclly the Shisholm Trail, which figures in so many cowboy ballads and night-herd songs. There were two Chisholm brothers, one a freighter and the other a cattleman of Scotch and Indian ancestry. Their father, Ignatius Chisholm, was the son of John D.
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this herd bedded down on the best selected bed-gronnd which could be found, in a ssction of country which might perhaps be badly cut up on all sides by water-and-wind-erosion, with plenty of gul-chess varying in depth from one to twenty-five feet and as wide as a horse could jump or a hen fly across. The next requirement was a really dark night, when all light from moon or stars had been so obliterated that one could not so€ the head of the horse upon which one was mounted, or even a hand held before the face. There were plenty of occasions of that sort on the great Plains, as elsewhere. The stage is now nearly set. Nothing further would be needed save a few deafening crashes of thunder, accompanied by blinding flashes of lightning, with perhaps a liberal allowance of rain, hail, and a gale of wind.
The first guard of the herders will have taken charge of the cattle. The trail foreman is with them, doubtless hoping that the heavy storm-clouds which have been gathering in the northwest, and which can be seen rapidly approaching, will disperse before reaching the herd. He knows full well what a bad run of the herd might mean, both in loss of cattle and death or mutilation of riders. He) well knows that contending with the force of nature coupled with a herd of cattle maddened by fright is a serious proposition. The boys in camp, who were off guard, are standing or lying- near their saddled horses, holding their bridle-reins and ready for a quick mount.
Perhaps because the air was heavily charged with electricity, which would have some bearing on the nervous condition of the cattle, perhaps for some other cause, it took but little to start a stampede. The stumbling of a horse of the sound of a little whirlwind tearing across the country—eVen a strangq/ iscenlj borne to them on the wind—might be all that was needed to start, trouble. Without a second's warning a stampede would stall with a roar and crash, followed by the steady thundering of thou-
sands of hoofs and the smashing and clashing of horns against, horns.
They are off! Panic-stricken, wild with fright away they go, over bad-lands, prairie-dog towns —any, and everything that comes in their way. All tin; riders are now in the saddle, racing at top speed through the pitchy blackness of the night guided onlyby the sounds made by the fleeing animals, and depending to a great decree on the eyesight of their horses to keep them near the cattle, and to avoid bad gulches into which all might be piled indiscriminately.
There was little use trying to stop a stampede when the herd presented too wide a front. The great mass of the frightened animals following in the wake of the leaders would, by their weight alone, force the leaders over any obstacle which they might encounter. Over bluffs and banks they would go, piling up when the fall was great, not ¦ without some broken necks, backs or limbs. After running for perhaps half a mile, the herd would have become strung out, the strongest and fleetest having forged to the front while the lesss fleet and weaker animals could only follow along as rapidly as their strength would permit, but all trying, as it seemed, to be with their leaders at the finish.
As soon as the herd was sufficiently strung out, the riders would try to get near the lead cattle, and if possible swing or turn them so that they would circle back into the mass of cattle following*. This was done by crowding along on one side of the leaders, the cowboys yelling and singing to them. This would force the cattle' into a compact bunch again, all running in a circle, or "milling." This milling would be stopped in a short time; the riders would check some of the cattle on the outer edge of the herd and start them traveling in the opposite direction. This, after a short time, would stop Hie mill. Sometimes one stampede would follow another, the cattle having hardly enough time to re-eover their breath between runs.
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stampede happened, like turkey 'hash a day or so after Thanksgiving, on the morning after, when the sun came out bright and clear, the cattle and their herders Avere all accounted for, and the tired and hungry boys came straggling into camp, ft was to hear the cook yelling: "All set, fellers! Come and get it!"
This is only the beginning of Captain Jim's series of Western stories. He tells us of guiding immigrant trains across the prairies, of buffalo-hunting with Bed Cloud's Sioux, or riding Hell-for-leather with Custer's old cavalry regiments, and of ranching life in Wyoming and New Mexico.
Captain Jim's gorgeous adventures do not seem to him to have been much out of the ordinary, and he ends his story with this whimsical touch:
The dangers actually infesting the lives of the folk who live in the-West have propably increased about a thousand-fold during the past fifty years. -But they are of a wholly different sort—for example, the noiselesss and sneaking automobile, which, without a cheery warwhoop or even so much as a rattlesnake's warning, now kills, maims, and scalps hundreds of persons every year.
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