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Updated: May 24, 2025
I reduced my help gradually, as the cattle quieted down and became located, until by the middle of summer we were running the ranch with thirty men, which were later reduced to twenty for the winter. Line camps were established on the north and east, comfortable quarters were built for fence-riders and their horses, and aside from headquarters camp, half a dozen outposts were maintained.
More than one man's been shot by Boyle's fence-riders for tryin' to homestead a piece of land he claims he's got a lease on. He ain't got no lease, but that don't matter. "There's men settled here in this reservation that's run up and down this state till they turned gray tryin' to locate on a piece of land.
Mrs. Philbrook broke under the long strain of never-ending battles, and died the spring that her daughter came eighteen years of age. This girl had grown up in the saddle, a true daughter of her fighting sire. Time and again she had led a patrol of two fence-riders along one side of that sixty square miles of ranch while her father guarded the other.
He said they'd never run him out of this country, livin' or dead." Lambert swallowed a dry lump. "Is she running the ranch?" "Like an old soldier, sir. I tell you, I've got a whole lot of admiration for that girl." "She must have her hands full." "Night and day. She's short on fence-riders, and I guess if you boys are lookin' for a job you can land up there with Vesta, all right."
It is so lonesome out here that I can not keep good men. I tell my fence-riders only to keep people away so that they will not kill my sheep. Some of them I arm as you see, because those who hunt also carry guns and are sometimes ugly." He spread out his slender fingers apologetically. "Again I am sorry," he said.
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