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The man was the veteran cowboy, Budd Hankinson, who had whirled the lasso on the arid plains of Arizona, the Llano Estacado of Texas and among the mountain ranges of Montana; who had fought Apaches in the southwest, Comanches in the south and Sioux in the north, and had undergone hardships, sufferings, wounds and privations before which many a younger man than he had succumbed.
But the cibolero was as independent of such a necessity as the wild savage of the prairies. He could sleep on the grassy sward or the naked rock, he could draw sustenance even from the arid surface of the Llano Estacado, and there he could bid defiance to a whole army of pursuers. At the council Don Ambrosio was not present. Grief and rage kept him within doors.
Before their eyes looms up a line of elevated land, apparently the profile of a mountain. But no; it cannot be that. Trending horizontally, without curvature, against the sky, they know it is not a mountain, but a mesa a table-land. It is the Llano Estacado. Drawing nearer, they get under the shadow of its beetling bluffs.
No, not good-by Adios, Duane! May we meet again!" West of the Pecos River Texas extended a vast wild region, barren in the north where the Llano Estacado spread its shifting sands, fertile in the south along the Rio Grande. A railroad marked an undeviating course across five hundred miles of this country, and the only villages and towns lay on or near this line of steel.
There's Great Lakes and Canadian Southern Railway Company," she went on, "Chicago Water Front and Terminal Company, Great Geyser Texan Petroleum and Llano Estacado Land Company dozens and dozens of them, and not one has an office or, so far as I can find out, any tangible existence but the one I spoke of." "Which is this great exception?" queried Mr.
If disturbed they drop into the water instantly, giving rise to a saying to express quickness, "like a mud turtle off a log." I have said nothing of bison. Perhaps there are none now, but in 1884 there were supposed to be still a few on the Llano Estacado or Stakes Plain. I knew one man who used to go hunting them every year and usually killed a few.
You have been lost upon the Llano Estacado?" "Hunger, thirst both, senorita," he answers, speaking for the first time. "For days I have not tasted either food or drink." "Virgen santissima! is that so?" As she says this she returns to her horse; and, jerking a little wallet from the saddle, along, with a suspended gourd, again advances towards him.
On going back to his cave he had crossed a fresh trail coming in from the northern end of the Llano Estacado. It was a trail of horses, mules, and dogs; and Carlos, on scrutinising it, soon acquainted himself with the number of each that had passed.
I made known to them my plans, and succeeded in inducing about thirty braves to take part in the rash undertaking. "Leaving the village under the pretense of hunting, we crossed the "Llano Estacado," to the head waters of the Pecos; and descending that stream nearly to its mouth, diverged to the west and crossed the Rio Grande.
The northeastern section of this extensive country is composed of that stupendous level tract known as the "Llano Estacado," or "Staked Plain."
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