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Updated: May 3, 2025
Oxen bellowed and jumbled, mules snorted and balked, the herders of the caballada shrieked for help. "Close up! Close up!" "Corral!" "Charge 'em! Meet the beggars!" "No! Under yore wagon, everybody!" "Get out o' my way! Yip! Gee, Buck!" "Haw, Spot! Haw, Whity! Haw with you!" "Durn these mules! We'll all be wolf meat." "Look! There's nigh a thousand of 'em!"
Boland led the ex-prisoner to the rendezvous, where Pete and Joe Benavides awaited their coming with four saddle horses, the pick of the Benavides caballada, and two pack-horses.
El segundo pueblo dista del precedente como un tiro de piedra, es de fundacion moderna, y se compondrá de mas 15 familias que se retiraron aqui de: Gualpi Gualpi que dista del anterior un tiro de fusil, es mas grande y populoso que los dos anteriores, puede tener hasta 200 familias. Estas tres pueblos tienen poco caballada, y algunas vacas; pero mucho ganado lanar. Mosasnabi
"Cold and dampness and snakes and fitful dreams were not the only bodily discomforts. A dozen horses were loose in camp, and trotting gayly about. Several times they passed at a careless pace within a yard of my head. Once the foremost of the caballada jumped directly over me, and was followed by the rest.
A hundred paces farther on the guide, who had gone ahead, cried out from an eminence, "Mira la caballada!" Pushing through the jungle, we ascended the eminence. A brilliant picture opened before us. The storm had suddenly lulled, and the tropical sun shone down upon the flowery surface of the earth, bathing its verdure in a flood of yellow light.
Yours is the only one in the caballada I would buy, and, it seems, the only one that is not for sale!" "I am sorry for that; but I have tested the qualities of this animal. We have become friends. No common motive would induce me to part with him." "Ah, senor! it is not a common motive that makes me so eager to purchase him.
While enjoying the pic-nic with our agreeable hostess, a caballada was driven into the corral by two vaqueros, and two gentlemen soon after came into the house. They were Messrs. Lightson and Murphy, from the Pueblo, bound for San Francisco, and had stopped to change their horses.
I heard the yells of the mounted savages as I cleared the caballada; and looking back, I saw a string of twenty or more coming after me as fast as their horses could gallop. But I had no fear of them now. I knew my Moro too well; and after I had cleared the ten miles of valley, and was springing up the steep front of the sierra, I saw my pursuers still back upon the plain.
The out-rider guards had lined, on either hand, to stand the enemy off while the wagons bunched. A rear guard sped to protect the caballada. Captain Charles Bent tore back from the advance. He was bare-headed. His long black hair streamed in the breeze that he made. He was mounted on a rangy, raw-boned black mule, with split ears Comanche brand. No man more fearless ever ranged the plains.
An hour suffices to drive up the "caballada," and remount the bandits at any friendly interior ranch. Obstinate silence is all the roadside dwellers' return to questions. Valois cons over the bloody record of the last two years. The desperate crimes begin with Andres Armijo and Tomas Maria Carrillo. They were unyielding ex-soldiers. Both of these have been run to earth.
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