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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Yonder!" cried Francois; "yonder they go!" and he pointed far out upon the prairie where several reddish-looking objects were seen flying like the wind toward the far bluffs of the Llano Estacado.
Fumbling in her black bag she pulled forth a flaring certificate of the regulation kind, not even engraved which evidenced that Sarah Maria Ann Effingham was the legal owner of three hundred and thirty thousand shares of the capital stock of the Great Geyser Texan Petroleum and Llano Estacado Land Company. Mr. Tutt took it gingerly between his thumb and forefinger.
He urged the pony forward at a gallop toward the Land Beyond the Law. The days went by, and late springtime found the Man from Bitter Creek in the upper river country which lies just west of the great Llano Estacado. Among those lonely hills the badness of the whole frontier had crystallized that year.
Having crossed the Rio Pecos bottom, and climbed up the bluffs to the higher bench of the Llano Estacado, they strike out over the sterile plain. As it is early morning, and the air is chilly, they wear their ample cavalry cloaks of bright yellow cloth.
To be astray in a wilderness of any kind is a perilous predicament for the traveller in one without water it is death. After their affair with the Tenawas, the Texan Rangers directed their course towards the Llano Estacado.
Long before night the troopers returned with their usual report, "los barbaros no pudimos alcanzar." They said that they had followed the trail to the Pecos, where the Indians had crossed, and that the savages had continued on towards the Llano Estacado. This piece of news gave some relief, for it was conjectured, if the marauders had gone in that direction, their plundering would end.
It resembled a range of cliffs, or low mountains, at a great distance off to the west, and running from north to south as far as they could see. It was, in fact, a range of cliffs similar to those of the butte. It was the eastern escarpment of the famous "Llano Estacado," or "Staked Plain." The boys had often heard hunters speak of this tableland, and they recognised its features at a glance.
Were it so, there would not be much likelihood of their ever reaching the Del Norte or leaving the Llano Estacado alive. Not dreaming of danger in that desolate place at least none caused by human kind they remain tranquilly pulling at their pipes, now conversing of the past, anon speculating about their plans for the future.
Westward, across the Liana Estacado, Uraga and his lancers continue on their return march. The troop, going by twos, is again drawn out in an elongated line, the arms and accoutrements of the soldiers glancing in the sun, while the breeze floats back the pennons of their lances. The men prisoners are a few files from the rear, a file on each flank guarding them.
With a knowledge of these facts, Carlos the cibolero had determined to risk an expedition to the Red River, whose head-waters have their source in the eastern "ceja" of the Llano Estacado, and not in the Rocky Mountains as laid down upon maps. Carlos was well armed for hunting the buffalo so was the half-blood Antonio and two of the three peons were also experienced hunters.
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