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Poor Fatty or Horsehead or whatever they call him stands off and glares at her, and can't say his lesson when he catches her eye only he seldom does catch it, because she's so busy with other boys of more spirit who crowd about her and snatch hair ribbons and sing 'My lady sleeps' until no one else can." "Do you know Fatty Budlow?" asked my surprised woman child of Miss Lansdale.
He stayed with me while I was crazy and got me safe to Horsehead. "Do you suppose I could ever live long enough to turn that man, wounded, over to an enemy? He didn't ask me for any shelter after Van Horn's raid. All he ever asked me for was cartridges and he got 'em. He'd get anything I had, and all I had, as long as there was a breath left in my body, and he asked within reason.
Three sleepless nights were borne without a murmur, and on our reaching Horsehead Crossing and watering the cattle they were turned back on the mesa and freed for the time being. The presence of Indian sign around the ford was the reason for turning loose, but at the round-up the next morning the experiment proved a costly one, as three hundred and sixty-three beeves were missing.
The sandy road even muffled the noise of the wagon and the tramping of horses; but once we entered that rocky cañon, the rattling of our commissary seemed to summon every Comanche and his ally to come and rob us. There was never a halt, the reverberations of our caravan seeming to reëcho through the Gap, resounding forward and back, until our progress must have been audible at Horsehead Crossing.
"She looks almost as her mother's picture did," I said. When the child had gone, Miss Lansdale searched my face long before speaking. She seemed to hesitate for words, and at length to speak of other matters than those which might have perplexed her. "Why did they call you 'Horsehead'?" she asked almost kindly. "I never asked. It seemed to be a common understanding.
In September, 1868, a little over two years after their organization, three troops of the Ninth Cavalry did well in an action against Indians at Horsehead Hills, Texas.
On one occasion, about midway between Horsehead Crossing and our destination, difficulty was encountered in finding an entrance to the river on account of its abrupt banks. It was late in the day, and in order to insure a quiet night with the cattle water became an urgent necessity.
'I was thinking of the time me and George put sheep-dip in Horsehead Johnson's whisky. I wish I was back in Atascosa City, says he. "I felt a cold chill run down my back. 'Me to play and mate in one move, says I to myself. "I made Solly promise to stay in the cafe for half an hour and I hiked out in a cab to Lolabelle Delatour's flat on Forty-third Street. I knew her well.
The christening is said to have been done in 1881 by John W. Young, then a grading contractor, applied to a location two miles east of the present townsite. Young there had a store at his headquarters. Later the railroad authorities established the town on its present location. The settlement, since the first coming of English-speaking folk, had been known as Horsehead Crossing.
You can just see a break above it that's the high point of the canyon. A long time ago there was a mining camp in those mountains Horsehead they started to build a railroad up there did a lot of grading and put in the abutments for a bridge across the canyon. Before they got the road built the camp played out; they never finished it. All that country below there is the Falling Wall."
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